Adapts
[ə'dæpts]
Examples
- But a man who believes in something else than his own greed, has necessarily a conscience or standard to which he more or less adapts himself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This grill, you will note, is round, which particularly adapts it to the use of utensils ordinarily found in the kitchen of the average home. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He is penetrated with the spirit of Plato, and quotes or adapts many thoughts both from the Republic and from the Timaeus. Plato. The Republic.
- He thus adapts animals and plants for his own benefit or pleasure. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He adapts mythology like the Homeric poems to the wants of the state, making 'the Phoenician tale' the vehicle of his ideas. Plato. The Republic.
- Mr. Rouncewell is perfectly good-humoured and polite, but within such limits, evidently adapts his tone to his reception. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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