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Definition of Adapting
1. adapt [v] - See also: adapt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adapting
Literary usage of Adapting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"It also consists in adapting to and combining with the hub thus constructed, a
key having a screw threaded winding part for engaging with said hub, ..."
2. General Methods of Teaching in Elementary Schools: Including the Kindergarten by Samuel Chester Parker (1919)
"We shall discuss this topic under the following headings: I. adapting subject
... I. adapting SUBJECT MATTER TO VARYING SOCIAL NEEDS adapting subject matter ..."
3. The Art of Playwriting: Being a Practical Treatise on the Elements of by Alfred Hennequin (1890)
"adapting Novels. — Not every novel can be successfully adapted, for the reason that
... adapting Foreign Plays. — This process, so easy to the professional ..."
4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1881)
"Ox A MODIFICATION OF MOHR'S BURETTE adapting IT FOR USE IN MEASURING CORROSIVE
SOLUTIONS, ETC. BY NELSON H. DARTON. All who have frequent occasion to use ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"modes of religion, that propose any visible and material objects oí worship, have
the advantage of adapting and familiarising themselves to the senses of ..."
6. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"Experiments were made, at h'rst without success, of adapting the letters of the
monochord to the ..."
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