adapt

1. Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose (synset 200300361)
   "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"
   is a type of: alter, change, vary - become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
   subtypes:

   • adjust - make correspondent or conformable
   • gear, pitch - set the level or character of
   • fit - insert or adjust several objects or people
   • anglicise, anglicize - make English in appearance
   • shoehorn - fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited
   • orient, tailor - adjust to a specific need or market
   • domesticate, tame - make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
   • cultivate, domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame - adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
   • christianize - adapt in the name of Christianity
   • naturalise, naturalize - adopt to another place
   • electrify, wire - equip for use with electricity
   • transcribe - rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended
   same as: accommodate
2. Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions (synset 200150107)
   "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"
   is a type of: get used to - get or become familiar or accustomed with through experience
   subtypes:

   • readapt, readjust - adjust anew
   • readapt - adapt anew
   • assimilate - become similar to one's environment
   • focalise, focalize, focus - become focussed or come into focus
   • acclimate, acclimatise, acclimatize - get used to a certain climate
   • match - be equal or harmonize
   • obey - be obedient to
   • square - cause to match, as of ideas or acts
   same as: adjust, conform

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