ADAPTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adapted mean? 

• ADAPTED (adjective)
  The adjective ADAPTED has 1 sense:

1. changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose

  Familiarity information: ADAPTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADAPTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose

Synonyms:

adapted; altered

Context example:

instructions altered to suit the children's different ages

Similar:

modified (changed in form or character)

 Context examples 

The current process is very expensive, and engines should be adapted to this new kind of fuel.

(Will We Soon Drive on ‘Grassoline’?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Rice was domesticated from wild species that grew in tropical regions, where it adapted to endure monsoons and waterlogging.

(Grains in the rain, National Science Foundation)

It is currently being adapted and validated among the Turkish population, thanks to collaboration with Hacettepe University.

(Scientists designed the first test to detect dysphagia, University of Granada)

The team from Cambridge University’s Department of Biochemistry and Sainsbury Laboratory (SLCU) adapted low-temperature scanning electron microscopy (cryo-SEM) to image the nanoscale architecture of tree cell walls in their living state.

(Revealing the nanostructure of wood could help raise height limits for wooden skyscrapers, University of Cambridge)

Has been adapted as a cloning vector (canarypox vector) for use as a mammalian expression vector.

(Canarypox Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

Cells of a single type (human, animal, or plant) that have been adapted to grow continuously in the laboratory and are used in research.

(Cell Line, NCI Dictionary)

Originally developed to measure lymphedema in cancer patients following surgical removal of the lymph nodes, the new device has been adapted for those afflicted by elephantiasis caused by lymphatic filariasis infection.

(New portable device to gauge severity of elephantiasis, SciDev.Net)

They appear, however, to have quickly adapted themselves, and Mrs. Barclay has always, I understand, been as popular with the ladies of the regiment as her husband was with his brother officers.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Anyway I am not adapted for it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This means we could harness Rider to breed crops that are better adapted to drought stress by providing drought responsiveness to genes already present in crops.

(Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops, University of Cambridge)