adapting
present participle ofadapt
| 单词 | adapting |
| 释义 | adapting present participle ofadapt adapt verb uk/əˈdæpt/us/əˈdæpt/B2[T] tochange, or tochangesomething, tosuitdifferentconditionsor uses: Manysoftwarecompanieshave adaptedpopularprogramstothe newoperatingsystem. Therecipehere is aporkroastadaptedfromCaroline O'Neill'sbook"Louisiana Kitchen". [+ to infinitive]We had to adaptourplanstofitJack'stimetable. Theplayhad been adaptedfor(=changedto make itsuitablefor)children. Davies isbusyadapting Brinkworth'slatestnovelfortelevision. to make different
B2[I] tochangeyourideasorbehaviourto make themsuitablefor a newsituation: The good thing aboutchildrenis that they adapt veryeasilytonewenvironments. It took me a while to adapttothe newjob. [I]biologyspecialized If alivingthing adapts, itchangesslightlyovertimeso it cancontinuetoexistin aparticularenvironment: Species have adaptedtoclimatechangesthroughouthistory. Thewaysin whichorganismshave adapted tosurvivein thisextremeenvironmentare not wellunderstood.
Adapting and modifying
Examplesofadaptingadapting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. A key argument is that organizations have great difficultyadaptingto their environment, called 'inertia' in this literature. From theCambridge English Corpus Reactivelyadaptingchosen strategies (supporting the reactiveness aspect). From theCambridge English Corpus In the short term, this seems more of an implementation issue than a question ofadaptingthe underlying formalism. From theCambridge English Corpus Besides this "knowing what", a user's "knowing how" can also play an important role inadaptingsystems to user needs. From theCambridge English Corpus The possibilities ofadaptinga problem specification such that it fits into another category are often limited. From theCambridge English Corpus This could be done either byadaptingthe delivery formulation or by modifying the molecules themselves to enable them to surmount permeability barriers. From theCambridge English Corpus This happened as a consequence of parasitesadaptingto hosts from different geographical regions and under variable environmental conditions. From theCambridge English Corpus However, the methodology needsadaptingto the mineralogy of a planet, the surface of which is dominated by volcanogenic detritus. From theCambridge English Corpus We will first tackle the problem ofadaptingsingle streams to different time scales. From theCambridge English Corpus In other words the human mind-body system is extremely good atadaptingto fixed physical challenges, and learning their subtlety. From theCambridge English Corpus At present, a globe-net-transfer of sound material passes through different contexts and spaces, and seems to beadaptingitself to different social speeds. From theCambridge English Corpus Constructing familiarity : a way ofadaptingto life in care homes. From theCambridge English Corpus Small circles connected by dash-dotted lines (right panels) indicate the results of 80-80adaptingcondition with added white gaps (see text). From theCambridge English Corpus This gives us the possibility of simultaneouslyadaptingboth parameters, which may be particularly advantageous for capturing sharp layers in the solution. From theCambridge English Corpus We then shortly hint at a severe technical difficulty inadaptingthe standard strong normalization proofs which use the so called reducibility method. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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