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Example sentences from the Web for adaptorThe artist and the adaptor have still hardly begun to work with the endless variety of substances now at their disposal. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind|Herbert George Wells He is styled the inventor of the velvet pile in tapestry, but it were better to call him the adaptor. The Tapestry Book|Helen Churchill Candee The adaptor piece may have a face mould worked upon it to give a pilaster-like appearance if fancy so dictates. Woodwork Joints|William Fairham We can do some of these things by apparatus designed by the brain of man—and man really is but an imitator and adaptor of Nature. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers|Swami Panchadasi
nouna person or thing that adapts any device for connecting two parts, esp ones that are of different sizes or have different mating fitments - a plug used to connect an electrical device to a mains supply when they have different types of terminals
- a device used to connect several electrical appliances to a single mains socket
Words nearby adaptoradaptive optics, adaptive radiation, adaptogen, adaptogenic, adaptometer, adaptor, Adar, ad arbitrium, Adar Sheni, ad astra per aspera, adat Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |