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Adapt vs Navigate - What's the difference?

adapt | navigate |

In lang=en terms the difference between adapt and navigate

is that adapt is to change oneself so as to be adapted while navigate is to travel over water in a ship; to sail.

As verbs the difference between adapt and navigate

is that adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion while navigate is to plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft etc on a journey; to follow a planned course.

As an adjective adapt

is adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

adapt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
  • To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
  • To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
  • To change oneself so as to be adapted.
  • They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

    Derived terms

    * adaptable * adaptation * adaptative * adapter * adaption * adaptitude * adaptly * adaptness * adaptor

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
  • (Jonathan Swift)

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    navigate

    English

    Verb

  • To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft etc on a journey; to follow a planned course.
  • He navigated the bomber to the Ruhr.
  • To travel over water in a ship; to sail.
  • We navigated to France in the dinghy.
  • (computing) To move from page to page on the internet or within a program by clicking on hyperlinks.
  • It was difficult to navigate back to the home page.

    Derived terms

    * navigation * navigator * navigable