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adj
- Able to change and adapt.
- Changing; active; in motion.
- (computing) Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.
- (grammar) Of a verb: not stative, but fientive; indicating continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- (music) Having to do with the volume of sound.
- Powerful; energetic.
- Pertaining to dynamics, the branch of mechanics concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.
- of or relating to dynamics
- characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality
- (used of verbs (e.g. ‘to run’) and participial adjectives (e.g. ‘running’ in ‘running water’)) expressing action rather than a state of being
noun
- (physics) A moving force.
- (grammar) A verb that indicates continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- (music) A symbol in a musical score that indicates the desired level of volume.
- (music) The varying loudness or volume of a song or the markings that indicate the loudness.
- A characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior.
- an efficient incentive
adj
- Adaptable to change.
- (poker) Of a straight draw, made up of four consecutive cards, thus able to be completed by either of two ranks of card.
- Unrestricted by definite limits.
- Permitting a spontaneous or unstructured response.
- without fixed limits or restrictions
- allowing for a spontaneous response
- allowing for future changes or revisions
noun
- the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
- (uncountable) The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
- a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
- (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
- (countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
- (countable, evolutionary theory) An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
- (countable) A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
- (uncountable) The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
- (sociology) The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.
- (uncountable, evolutionary theory) The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
noun
- the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
- making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
- the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
- the act of adjusting something to match a standard
- an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances
- The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration.
- The settling or balancing of a financial account.
- The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim.
- The action of adjusting something.
- The behavioral process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
adj
- adapted to social or economic change
- (of languages, events, worldviews, etc) Recreated; redeveloped and rediscovered through forensic methods or other similarly clever methods of induction from limited evidence of a past state.
- (of persons and institutions) Reformed in politics, ideology, or spiritual conformation; reconciled to social or cultural change; particularly with respect to the Reconstruction after the American Civil War.
- (of buildings, infrastructure, financing, management, etc) Rebuilt; reassembled; redesigned and reimplemented; thoroughly renovated even at the structural level.
verb
noun
- A process by which the culture of a society changes on contact with a different one.
- A process by which a person acquires the culture of the society that they inhabit, starting at birth.
- all the knowledge and values shared by a society
- the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
- the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
adj
- Capable of adapting or changing to suit new or modified conditions or situations.
- Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.
- Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
- Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.
- making or willing to make concessions
- able to flex; able to bend easily
- bending and snapping back readily without breaking
- capable of being changed
- able to adjust readily to different conditions
noun
verb
- To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
- To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
- To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
- (ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
- adjust for
- make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
- make reparations or amends for
- make payment to; compensate
- do or give something to somebody in return
- make amends for; pay compensation for
adj
- Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
- having a capacity for adaptation
- (evolutionary theory) Of a trait: that helps an organism to function well in its environment.
- Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
- (psychology) Of a trait: that helps a person to function well in society.
verb
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
- (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.
- (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
- (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.
- (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.
adj
verb
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
- make correspondent or conformable
- decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim
- (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
- (transitive) To improve or rectify.
- (transitive) To modify.
verb
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- be similar, be in line with
- (transitive, intransitive, often followed by to) To change to more closely match typical characteristics or behavior.
- (intransitive, of things or procedures) To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy.
- (transitive, intransitive) To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.
verb
- (transitive) To change the culture of (a person) by the influence of another culture, especially a more dominant culture.
- (intransitive) To be changed by acculturation.
- assimilate culturally
- (transitive) To cause (a person) to acquire the culture of a society (or of a region, industry, or company), as in the case of children growing up in that culture, immigrants learning that culture, or new hires learning the ropes of a job.
noun
noun
- Adaptability.
- (computing) A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.
- (computing) A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
- (mathematics) The ratio of the relative change in a function's output with respect to the relative change in its input, for infinitesimal changes at a certain point.
- The quality of being elastic.
- (physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
- (economics) The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
noun
- The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
- (music) A change of key.
- A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
- (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
- (LGBTQ) The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.
- (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
- (euphemistic) Death; passing from life into death.
- (aviation) A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
- (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
- (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
- (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
- a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another
- a passage that connects a topic to one that follows
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- an event that results in a transformation
- a musical passage moving from one key to another
verb
- (intransitive, LGBTQ) To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.
- (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change.
- (intransitive) To make a transition.
- cause to convert or undergo a transition
- make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another)
adj
noun
verb
adj
- continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
- borne up by or suspended in a liquid
- not definitely committed to a party or policy
- (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position
- inclined to move or be moved about
- Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
- That floats or float.
- (linguistics, of a tone) that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.
noun
verb
adj
noun
- anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place
- a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
- One who usually wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood.
- A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
verb
adj
- continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
- (figurative) Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled.
- Of or pertaining to a vagabond or vagrant, or a person fond of wandering.
- Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation.
noun
- a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
- (specifically) A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.
- (biology, especially ornithology) An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.
- Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
noun
- Any of various theories that examine the alteration or enhancement of humanity as a result of technology and/or cultural adaptation.
- The elaboration of Darwin's theory of evolution that incorporates knowledge about genetics.
- Any of various theories, such as intelligent design, that seek to reconcile Darwinian evolution with Christian theology.
- A model of cultural evolution associated with Leslie White and Julian Steward that seeks to define the forces that cause cultures to change.
verb
- (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.
- (transitive, translation studies) To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.
- (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.
- (transitive) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
- (transitive) To make (more) fit for domestic life.
- (transitive) To make domestic.
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
noun
noun
- the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances
- The quality of being adaptable; a quality that renders adaptable.
- (biology) Variability in respect to, or under the influence of, external conditions; susceptibility of an organism to that variation whereby it becomes suited to or fitted for its conditions of environment; the capacity of an organism to be modified by circumstances.
noun
adj
- Changing from one time to another.
- Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary.
- (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)
- capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
noun
adj
- Capable of being changed.
- subject to change
- Subject to sudden or frequent changes.
- (of a species) Capable of camouflaging itself by changing colour.
- such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change
- capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
- varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles
noun
- The degree to which a process adapts to changing data or requirements.
- The belief that reality is a dynamic, changing process rather than a set of static facts or deterministic chains of causality.
- A cognitive model that sees cognition as a complex dynamic interaction between the agent and its environment.
- The quality of being impermanent and changing.
- The quality of being exciting and powerful.
verb
- undergo a change or development
- come into existence
- enhance the appearance of
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).
- (copulative, followed by an adjective or a noun) begin to be; turn into (often with permanent states).
- (intransitive, archaic other than in become of) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
- (transitive) To be appropriate for.
verb
- undergo a change or development
- accomplish by rotating
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- to send or let go
- pass to the other side of
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- to change orientation or direction
- move around an axis or a center
- get by buying and selling
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- alter the functioning or setting of
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- cause to move around or rotate
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become officially one year older
- go sour or spoil
- change to the contrary
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- change color
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- direct at someone
- (transitive, roleplaying games) To magically or divinely repel undead.
- (intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- (transitive, fantasy) To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- (intransitive, fantasy) To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- (transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
- (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- (transitive) To direct or impel (something) into a place.
- (transitive) To twist or sprain.
- (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- (intransitive, of a body, person, etc) To move about an axis through itself.
- (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- (transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To hinge; to depend.
- (transitive) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- (reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (copulative) To become (often used with colors, clear sudden changes, weather and ages).
- (transitive, slang, sometimes offensive) To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
- (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.
- (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
noun
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a movement in a new direction
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- a circular segment of a curve
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- a favor for someone
- taking a short walk out and back
- an unforeseen development
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- The transition from one period or era to another.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A walk to and fro.
- (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (UK, finance, historical) The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
- A single loop of a coil.
- (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- The time required to complete a project.
- (circus, theater, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
noun
- making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
- in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality
- a settlement of differences
- living quarters provided for public convenience
- (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye
- the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need
- (countable, uncountable) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
- (theology) An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.
- (countable, medicine) The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
- (countable, commerce) A loan of money.
- (countable, physiology, biology) The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
- (countable, commerce) An accommodation bill or note.
- (countable, uncountable) A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
- (countable, geology) The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
- (British, Australia, a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.
- (countable, law) An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
- (countable, uncountable) Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
- (linguistics, sociolinguistics) Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
- (countable) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
- (countable, uncountable, followed by to) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
noun
- making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
- a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system
- (usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)
- putting clothes on to see whether they fit
- (countable, chiefly UK, often in the plural) A removable item (such as a carpet, a movable piece of furniture, or a picture) in a house or other building, which can be taken with one when moving out.
- (countable) gerund of fit: an act of making something fit (“conform in shape and size; be suitable for; etc.”).
- (uncountable) The process of fitting up; especially, of applying skilled methods to the installation of components to machines or other products.
- (clothing) An act of trying on an item of clothing to adjust or inspect how well it fits.
- (countable) A (generally small) component or part of a device or machine, especially one that is standardized and replaceable; specifically, a standardized part of a piping system used to connect sections of pipe together, such as a coupling.
- gerund of fit: the action or condition of having one or more fits (“convulsions or seizures”).
adj
verb
noun
- the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
- (uncountable) The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
- a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
- (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
- (countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
- (countable, evolutionary theory) An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
- (countable) A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
- (uncountable) The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
- (sociology) The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.
- (uncountable, evolutionary theory) The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
noun
- the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
- making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
- the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
- the act of adjusting something to match a standard
- an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances
- The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration.
- The settling or balancing of a financial account.
- The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim.
- The action of adjusting something.
- The behavioral process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
noun
- A process by which the culture of a society changes on contact with a different one.
- A process by which a person acquires the culture of the society that they inhabit, starting at birth.
- all the knowledge and values shared by a society
- the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture
- the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
noun
noun
- Adaptability.
- (computing) A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.
- (computing) A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
- (mathematics) The ratio of the relative change in a function's output with respect to the relative change in its input, for infinitesimal changes at a certain point.
- The quality of being elastic.
- (physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
- (economics) The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
noun
- The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
- (music) A change of key.
- A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
- (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
- (LGBTQ) The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.
- (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
- (euphemistic) Death; passing from life into death.
- (aviation) A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
- (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
- (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
- (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
- a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another
- a passage that connects a topic to one that follows
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- an event that results in a transformation
- a musical passage moving from one key to another
verb
- (intransitive, LGBTQ) To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.
- (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change.
- (intransitive) To make a transition.
- cause to convert or undergo a transition
- make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another)
noun
- Any of various theories that examine the alteration or enhancement of humanity as a result of technology and/or cultural adaptation.
- The elaboration of Darwin's theory of evolution that incorporates knowledge about genetics.
- Any of various theories, such as intelligent design, that seek to reconcile Darwinian evolution with Christian theology.
- A model of cultural evolution associated with Leslie White and Julian Steward that seeks to define the forces that cause cultures to change.
noun
- the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances
- The quality of being adaptable; a quality that renders adaptable.
- (biology) Variability in respect to, or under the influence of, external conditions; susceptibility of an organism to that variation whereby it becomes suited to or fitted for its conditions of environment; the capacity of an organism to be modified by circumstances.
noun
noun
- The degree to which a process adapts to changing data or requirements.
- The belief that reality is a dynamic, changing process rather than a set of static facts or deterministic chains of causality.
- A cognitive model that sees cognition as a complex dynamic interaction between the agent and its environment.
- The quality of being impermanent and changing.
- The quality of being exciting and powerful.
noun
- making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
- in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality
- a settlement of differences
- living quarters provided for public convenience
- (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye
- the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need
- (countable, uncountable) Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
- (theology) An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.
- (countable, medicine) The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
- (countable, commerce) A loan of money.
- (countable, physiology, biology) The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
- (countable, commerce) An accommodation bill or note.
- (countable, uncountable) A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
- (countable, geology) The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
- (British, Australia, a mass noun) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or students, etc.
- (countable, law) An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
- (countable, uncountable) Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
- (linguistics, sociolinguistics) Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
- (countable) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
- (countable, uncountable, followed by to) The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
noun
- making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
- a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system
- (usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)
- putting clothes on to see whether they fit
- (countable, chiefly UK, often in the plural) A removable item (such as a carpet, a movable piece of furniture, or a picture) in a house or other building, which can be taken with one when moving out.
- (countable) gerund of fit: an act of making something fit (“conform in shape and size; be suitable for; etc.”).
- (uncountable) The process of fitting up; especially, of applying skilled methods to the installation of components to machines or other products.
- (clothing) An act of trying on an item of clothing to adjust or inspect how well it fits.
- (countable) A (generally small) component or part of a device or machine, especially one that is standardized and replaceable; specifically, a standardized part of a piping system used to connect sections of pipe together, such as a coupling.
- gerund of fit: the action or condition of having one or more fits (“convulsions or seizures”).
adj
verb
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- To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
- To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
- To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
- (ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
- adjust for
- make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
- make reparations or amends for
- make payment to; compensate
- do or give something to somebody in return
- make amends for; pay compensation for
verb
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
- (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.
- (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
- (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.
- (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.
adj
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- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
- make correspondent or conformable
- decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim
- (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
- (transitive) To improve or rectify.
- (transitive) To modify.
verb
- adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
- be similar, be in line with
- (transitive, intransitive, often followed by to) To change to more closely match typical characteristics or behavior.
- (intransitive, of things or procedures) To be as required or recommended by a specification, regulation, or policy.
- (transitive, intransitive) To adapt to something by more closely matching it, especially something normative.
verb
- (transitive) To change the culture of (a person) by the influence of another culture, especially a more dominant culture.
- (intransitive) To be changed by acculturation.
- assimilate culturally
- (transitive) To cause (a person) to acquire the culture of a society (or of a region, industry, or company), as in the case of children growing up in that culture, immigrants learning that culture, or new hires learning the ropes of a job.
verb
- (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.
- (transitive, translation studies) To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.
- (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.
- (transitive) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
- (transitive) To make (more) fit for domestic life.
- (transitive) To make domestic.
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
- make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
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- undergo a change or development
- come into existence
- enhance the appearance of
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).
- (copulative, followed by an adjective or a noun) begin to be; turn into (often with permanent states).
- (intransitive, archaic other than in become of) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
- (transitive) To be appropriate for.
verb
- undergo a change or development
- accomplish by rotating
- to break and turn over earth especially with a plow
- to send or let go
- pass to the other side of
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- to change orientation or direction
- move around an axis or a center
- get by buying and selling
- channel one's attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- alter the functioning or setting of
- undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
- cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
- shape by rotating on a lathe or cutting device or a wheel
- cause to move around or rotate
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become officially one year older
- go sour or spoil
- change to the contrary
- cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
- have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to
- change color
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- cause to move along an axis or into a new direction
- direct at someone
- (transitive, roleplaying games) To magically or divinely repel undead.
- (intransitive) To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- (transitive, fantasy) To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (by extension) To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- (intransitive, fantasy) To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- (professional wrestling) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- (transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
- (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- (transitive) To direct or impel (something) into a place.
- (transitive) To twist or sprain.
- (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- (intransitive, of a body, person, etc) To move about an axis through itself.
- (transitive, figuratively) To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- (transitive) To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To hinge; to depend.
- (transitive) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- (reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (copulative) To become (often used with colors, clear sudden changes, weather and ages).
- (transitive, slang, sometimes offensive) To change the sexual orientation or gender of another person, or otherwise awaken a sexual preference.
- (transitive) To make (money); turn a profit.
- (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
noun
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a movement in a new direction
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- a circular segment of a curve
- the act of turning away or in the opposite direction
- the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course
- a favor for someone
- taking a short walk out and back
- an unforeseen development
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- (geometry) A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- The transition from one period or era to another.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A walk to and fro.
- (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- (UK, finance, historical) The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
- A single loop of a coil.
- (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- The time required to complete a project.
- (circus, theater, especially physical comedy) A short skit, act, or routine.
adj
- Able to change and adapt.
- Changing; active; in motion.
- (computing) Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.
- (grammar) Of a verb: not stative, but fientive; indicating continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- (music) Having to do with the volume of sound.
- Powerful; energetic.
- Pertaining to dynamics, the branch of mechanics concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.
- of or relating to dynamics
- characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality
- (used of verbs (e.g. ‘to run’) and participial adjectives (e.g. ‘running’ in ‘running water’)) expressing action rather than a state of being
noun
- (physics) A moving force.
- (grammar) A verb that indicates continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- (music) A symbol in a musical score that indicates the desired level of volume.
- (music) The varying loudness or volume of a song or the markings that indicate the loudness.
- A characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior.
- an efficient incentive
adj
- Adaptable to change.
- (poker) Of a straight draw, made up of four consecutive cards, thus able to be completed by either of two ranks of card.
- Unrestricted by definite limits.
- Permitting a spontaneous or unstructured response.
- without fixed limits or restrictions
- allowing for a spontaneous response
- allowing for future changes or revisions
adj
- adapted to social or economic change
- (of languages, events, worldviews, etc) Recreated; redeveloped and rediscovered through forensic methods or other similarly clever methods of induction from limited evidence of a past state.
- (of persons and institutions) Reformed in politics, ideology, or spiritual conformation; reconciled to social or cultural change; particularly with respect to the Reconstruction after the American Civil War.
- (of buildings, infrastructure, financing, management, etc) Rebuilt; reassembled; redesigned and reimplemented; thoroughly renovated even at the structural level.
verb
adj
- Capable of adapting or changing to suit new or modified conditions or situations.
- Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.
- Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
- Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.
- making or willing to make concessions
- able to flex; able to bend easily
- bending and snapping back readily without breaking
- capable of being changed
- able to adjust readily to different conditions
noun
adj
- Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
- having a capacity for adaptation
- (evolutionary theory) Of a trait: that helps an organism to function well in its environment.
- Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
- (psychology) Of a trait: that helps a person to function well in society.
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adj
- continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
- borne up by or suspended in a liquid
- not definitely committed to a party or policy
- (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position
- inclined to move or be moved about
- Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
- That floats or float.
- (linguistics, of a tone) that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.
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- anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place
- a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
- One who usually wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood.
- A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
verb
adj
- continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another
- (figurative) Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled.
- Of or pertaining to a vagabond or vagrant, or a person fond of wandering.
- Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation.
noun
- a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
- (specifically) A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.
- (biology, especially ornithology) An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.
- Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
adj
- Changing from one time to another.
- Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary.
- (of personal property as opposed to real estate) can be moved from place to place (especially carried by hand)
- capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
noun
adj
- Capable of being changed.
- subject to change
- Subject to sudden or frequent changes.
- (of a species) Capable of camouflaging itself by changing colour.
- such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change
- capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature
- varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles