adjust, conform, adapt
(verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; āWe must adjust to the bad economic situationā
adjust, set, correct
(verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; āAdjust the clock, pleaseā; ācorrect the alignment of the front wheelsā
adjust
(verb) make correspondent or conformable; āAdjust your eyes to the darknessā
align, aline, line up, adjust
(verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight; āalign the car with the curbā; āalign the sheets of paper on the tableā
adjust
(verb) decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim
Source: WordNet® 3.1
adjust (third-person singular simple present adjusts, present participle adjusting, simple past and past participle adjusted)
(transitive) To modify.
(transitive) To improve or rectify.
(transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
(intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
• (to modify something): change, edit, modify, set
• udjats
Source: Wiktionary
Ad*just", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Adjusting.] Etym: [OF. ajuster, ajoster (whence F. ajouter to add), LL. adjuxtare to fit; fr. L. ad + juxta near; confused later with L. ad and justus just, right, whence F. ajuster to adjust. See Just, v. t. and cf. Adjute.]
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 standard.
2. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
