| adapt | | |
| v. (change) | 1. accommodate, adapt | make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" |
| ~ vary, alter, change | become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season" |
| ~ adjust | make correspondent or conformable.; "Adjust your eyes to the darkness" |
| ~ gear, pitch | set the level or character of.; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience" |
| ~ fit | insert or adjust several objects or people.; "Can you fit the toy into the box?"; "This man can't fit himself into our work environment" |
| ~ anglicise, anglicize | make English in appearance.; "She anglicised her name after moving from Paris to London" |
| ~ shoehorn | fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited. |
| ~ tailor, orient | adjust to a specific need or market.; "a magazine oriented towards young people"; "tailor your needs to your surroundings" |
| ~ domesticate, tame | make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans.; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog" |
| ~ domesticate, tame, cultivate, naturalise, naturalize | adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment.; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" |
| ~ christianize | adapt in the name of Christianity.; "some people want to Christianize ancient pagan sites" |
| ~ naturalise, naturalize | adopt to another place.; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting" |
| ~ electrify, wire | equip for use with electricity.; "electrify an appliance" |
| ~ transcribe | rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended. |
| v. (change) | 2. adapt, adjust, conform | adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions.; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ readjust, readapt | adjust anew.; "After moving back to America, he had to readjust" |
| ~ readapt | adapt anew.; "He readapted himself" |
| ~ assimilate | become similar to one's environment.; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly" |
| ~ focalise, focalize, focus | become focussed or come into focus.; "The light focused" |
| ~ acclimate, acclimatise, acclimatize | get used to a certain climate.; "They never acclimatized in Egypt" |
| ~ match | be equal or harmonize.; "The two pieces match" |
| ~ obey | be obedient to. |
| ~ square | cause to match, as of ideas or acts. |
| precise | | |
| adj. | 1. precise | sharply exact or accurate or delimited.; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment" |
| ~ accurate | conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy.; "an accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate"; "accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale" |
| ~ distinct | easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined.; "a distinct flavor"; "a distinct odor of turpentine"; "a distinct outline"; "the ship appeared as a distinct silhouette"; "distinct fingerprints" |
| ~ exact | marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact.; "an exact mind"; "an exact copy"; "hit the exact center of the target" |
| ~ specific | (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique.; "rules with specific application"; "demands specific to the job"; "a specific and detailed account of the accident" |
| ~ dead | unerringly accurate.; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim" |
| ~ fine | minutely precise especially in differences in meaning.; "a fine distinction" |
| ~ hairsplitting, finespun | developed in excessively fine detail.; "finespun distinctions" |
| ~ meticulous, punctilious | marked by precise accordance with details.; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette" |
| ~ microscopic | extremely precise with great attention to details.; "examined it with microscopic care" |
| ~ skillful, nice | done with delicacy and skill.; "a nice bit of craft"; "a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot" |
| ~ on the button, on the nose | being precise with regard to a prescribed or specified criterion.; "his guess was on the nose"; "the prediction for snow was right on the button" |
| ~ very | precisely as stated.; "the very center of town" |
| adj. | 2. accurate, exact, precise | (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct.; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement" |
| ~ correct, right | free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth.; "the correct answer"; "the correct version"; "the right answer"; "took the right road"; "the right decision" |
| coincide | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. co-occur, coincide, cooccur | go with, fall together. |
| ~ coexist | exist together. |
| ~ overlap | coincide partially or wholly.; "Our vacations overlap" |
| v. (change) | 2. coincide, concur | happen simultaneously.; "The two events coincided" |
| ~ come about, hap, happen, occur, take place, go on, fall out, pass off, pass | come to pass.; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
| v. (stative) | 3. coincide | be the same.; "our views on this matter coincided" |
| ~ correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally, agree, fit, check | be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics.; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" |
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