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Webster 1913 Edition
Adjust
Ad-just′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Adjusted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Adjusting
.] 1.
To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations;
as, to
. adjust
a garment to the body, or things to a standard2.
To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.
Adjusting
the orthography. Johnson.
3.
To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result;
as, to
adjust
accounts; the differences are adjusted
.4.
To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use;
as, to
. adjust
a telescope or microscope
Syn. – To adapt; suit; arrange; regulate; accommodate; set right; rectify; settle.
Webster 1828 Edition
Adjust
ADJUST'
,Verb.
T.
1.
To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent, or conformable; as, to adjust a garment to the body, an event to the prediction, or things to a standard.2.
To put in order; to regulate or reduce to system; as to adjust a scheme; to adjust affairs.3.
To make accurate; to settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.Definition 2024
adjust
adjust
English
Verb
adjust (third-person singular simple present adjusts, present participle adjusting, simple past and past participle adjusted)
- (transitive) To modify.
- 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
- Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate.
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- (transitive) To improve or rectify.
- 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
- But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
- He adjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data.
-
- (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
- (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
- Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community. She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.
Synonyms
Derived terms
terms derived from adjust
Translations
to modify
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to improve or rectify
External links
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Adjustment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia