To make fit or suitable to; to accommodate or adapt in quality to. Also reflexive.
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释义 | the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)] > adapt or adjust to (8) attemper1393 To make fit or suitable to; to accommodate or adapt in quality to. Also reflexive. temper1530 To regulate suitably to need or requirement; to fit, adapt, conform, accommodate, make suitable. Const. to. Now rare or Obsolete. sort1561 To adapt, to fit, to make conformable to or with some thing or person. Now rare or Obsolete. accommodate1579 To adapt (to). transitive. To adapt, fit, or adjust (one thing or person) to (also †for, †with) another thing or person. square1583 figurative. To adjust or adapt, to cause to correspond to, or harmonize with, something. commodate1611 transitive. To adapt or suit (one's actions) to something. Also (and in earliest use) reflexive: to adapt oneself to. Cf. accommodate, v. 2b 2a. contemperate1656 transitive. To adapt or adjust (a person or thing) to another; to cause (a person or thing) to conform to another. Cf. contemper, v. 3. gear1900 To put (machinery) into gear (see gear, n. 7); to connect by gearing. Also figurative, to adjust, correct or co-ordinate; spec. to adjust or adapt… |
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