Adapt

Definition

adapt / ǝ'dæpt / v ၁။ (က) ~ sth (for sth) လိုက္ဖက္ေအာင္ ျပင္ဆင္သည္။ This machine has been specially adapted for use under water. ❍ These style can be adapted to suit individual tastes. (ခ) ~ sth (for sth) (from sth) လိုက္ေလ်ာညီေထြ ရိွေအာင္ ျပင္ဆင္ညိႇႏိႈင္းသည္။ This novel has been adapted for radio (ie translated and changed so that it can be presented on the radio) from the Russian original. ၂။ ~ (oneself) (to sth) က်င့္သား ရသည္။ ေနသားတက် ျဖစ္သည္။ အသားက်သည္။ Our eyes slowly adapted to the dark. ❍ She adapted herself quickly to the new climate. ❏ adaptable adj ၁။ အလိုက္သင့္အလ်ားသင့္ ေနထိုင္ တတ္ေသာ။ မီးစဥ္ၾကည့္ကတတ္ေသာ။ He is not very adaptable (ie does not adjust easily to new circumstances). ၂။ အလိုက္သင့္ ေျပာင္းလဲႏိုင္ေသာ။ adaptability n ❏ adaptation /ædæp'teÇʃn/ n ၁။ [C] သင့္ေလ်ာ္ေအာင္ စီစဥ္ျခင္း။ ဆီေလ်ာ္ေအာင္ ျပဳျပင္ျခင္း။ an adaptation for children of a play by Shakespeare. ၂။ [U] (ဇီဝ) သပၸာယ ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ သပၸာယျပဳျခင္း။ ၃။ (ဥပေဒစကားရပ္မ်ား) အစားထိုး ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္း။

Examples

1. The company was accused of being slow to adapt.
2. [adapt to] : Most students have little difficulty adapting to college life.
3. Courses can be adapted to suit the needs of the individual.
4. A specially adapted car
5. [adapt for] : You can adapt this fabric for anything from divers’ suits to gloves.
6. [adapt something from something] : The film is adapted from a Michael Crichton novel.