Adjust
[ə'dʒʌst]
Definition
(verb.) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; 'We must adjust to the bad economic situation'.
(verb.) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; 'Adjust the clock, please'; 'correct the alignment of the front wheels'.
(verb.) make correspondent or conformable; 'Adjust your eyes to the darkness'.
(verb.) decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim.
Typist: Melba--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.
(v. t.) To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.
(v. t.) To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.
Editor: Maureen
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Arrange, dispose, rectify, trim, put or set in order, put or set to rights, put in tune, put in good trim.[2]. Regulate, set.[3]. Settle, compose, reconcile, make up.[4]. Fit, adapt, suit, proportion, accommodate, measure, make conform, make conformable.
Checked by Groves
Definition
v.t. to arrange properly (with to): to regulate: to settle.—adj. Adjust′able.—n. Adjust′ment arrangement. .
Typed by Cyril
Examples
- Now the operator has to adjust himself to his machine, instead of his tool to his own purposes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- How then shall we adjust those principles together? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The ability of the eye to adjust itself to varying distances is called accommodation. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Glad to see you here again, sir, said Pratt, lingering to adjust a blind. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This was not what he had intended; but other schemes would not be hindered: they would simply adjust themselves anew. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- About 1639 Gascoigne, a young Englishman, invented the micrometer, which enables an observer to adjust a telescope with very great precision. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Here is a state of affairs where the duty of every clever person is evidently to help adjust and reassure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Double cultivators are constructed so that their outside teeth may be adjusted in and out from the centre of the machine to meet the width of the rows between which they operate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- If it is equipped with a three-heat switch, it can be adjusted to 600 watts at full, 300 at medium and 150 at low, which means a great saving in current for most small cooking operations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Her mother came into the room before this whirl of thoughts was adjusted into anything like order. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Emanuel adjusted it to the lock of this door. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Tuning forks do not produce strong tones unless mounted on hollow wooden boxes (Fig. 175), whose size and shape are so adjusted that resonance occurs and strengthens the sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The planchets, after being adjusted, are taken to the coining and milling rooms, and are passed through the milling machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Higgins nodded to her as a sign of greeting; and she softly adjusted her working materials on the table, and prepared to listen. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- While Mary is adjusting her ideas, he continued, let us return to Mr. Bingley. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She was before the mirror again, adjusting her hair with a light hand, drawing down her veil, and giving a dexterous touch to her furs. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- They were not unlike birds, altogether; having a sharp, brisk, sudden manner, and a little short, spruce way of adjusting themselves, like canaries. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He laid his hand upon the coffin, and mechanically adjusting the pall with which it was covered, motioned them onward. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She is too busy to waste time in adjusting an ordinary telephone to her ear, and so wears one of special design all the time. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Oh, said Caleb, leaning forward, adjusting his finger-tips with nicety and looking meditatively on the ground. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Well, it belongs to a stepson of mine, said Raffles, adjusting himself in a swaggering attitude. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Bucket adjusts them in a moment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In that case the operator tunes his instrument, or in other words adjusts his apparatus to suit the wave length of the station with which he wishes to communicate. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Next he adjusts his receiving circuits for a number of wave lengths. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The greatest power is the one that is subtle and adjusts itself, not one which blindly attacks. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Sir Leicester rises, adjusts her scarf about her, and returns to his seat. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Edited by Julius