Definition of Adjust

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Adjust

To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.

To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.

To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.

To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.

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Adjust Quotations

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
Tom Peters

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'
Jimmy Carter

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
Jimmy Carter

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Will Durant

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
Denis Diderot

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
Eric Clapton

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.
Timothy Geithner

Adjust Translations

adjust in Afrikaans is verstel
adjust in Dutch is aanpassen, afstemmen, adapteren
adjust in French is braquer, rectifier, adapter, ajustons, correction
adjust in German is stellen, berichtigen, einstellen
adjust in Italian is emendare, correggere
adjust in Latin is adapto
adjust in Norwegian is instille
adjust in Portuguese is ajuste
adjust in Spanish is colocar, corregir, adaptar, ajustar, acomodar

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