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Luckyboy300992 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Adapt

I don't know when we use adapt for and when we use adapt to.

I find it is hard to know when do I use FOR and when do I use TO.

Please help me.
  

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When they are followed by the noun being adapted, I think they are interchangeable, luckyboy: This ****** is adapted for widgets. This ****** is adapted to widgets. Do you have a particular sentence that concerns you?

— Mister Micawber

  • When they are followed by the noun being adapted, I think they are interchangeable, luckyboy: This ****** is adapted for widgets.
  • This ****** is adapted to widgets.
  • Do you have a particular sentence that concerns you?
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When they are followed by the noun being adapted, I think they are interchangeable, luckyboy:

This ****** is adapted for widgets.

This ****** is adapted to widgets.

Do you have a particular sentence that concerns you?
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I find in Oxford Dictionary that adapt have three meaning. I just want to ask about the first and second meaning.

1) (transitive) to change sth in order to make it suitalbe for a new use or situatio.

Most of these tools have been specially adapted for use by disabled people.

2) (intransitive, transtitive) to change your behaviour in order to deal more succ
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For #1, I think that 'to' can also be used.

For #2, I think that 'for' can also be used.

I feel a subtle difference, but it is not easily expressed. 'To' is a more direct or specific adaptation: that is all, really.
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