Refer vs Adapt - What's the difference?
refer | adapt |
To direct the attention of.
To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.
(rfex) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
# (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence
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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.
In lang=en terms the difference between refer and adapt
is that refer is to place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation while adapt is to change oneself so as to be adapted.As verbs the difference between refer and adapt
is that refer is to direct the attention of while adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.As an adjective adapt is
adapted; fit; suited; suitable.refer
English
Verb
(referr)- The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.
- He referred the matter to the principal.
- to refer a patient to a psychiatrist
- He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.
Synonyms
* delegate * directDerived terms
* refer to * refer someone toAnagrams
* English palindromes ----adapt
English
Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.