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Definition: ADAPTING |
ADAPTINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Adapt |
Date "ADAPTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Computing | In control systems, the ability of a system to change its performance characteristics in response to its environment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ADAPTING |
| English words defined with "ADAPTING": adaptable, adaptation, adjustment, adroit ♦ clever ♦ functionalism ♦ inflexible, ingenious ♦ rigid ♦ unbending. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ADAPTING": copy adapter, copy adaptor ♦ HOMILETICS ♦ Mentally Disabled Persons ♦ ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER ♦ spellerizing ♦ TEACHER, PHYSICALLY IMPAIRED ♦ USER REPRESENTATIVE, INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING ♦ WORK-STUDY COORDINATOR, SPECIAL EDUCATION. (references) |
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Health | Effective prevention begins with an assessment of the specific nature of the drug problem within the local community and adapting the program accordingly. (references) | |
If a doctor prescribes a pain medication, stimulant, or CNS depressant, follow the directions for use carefully and learn about the effects that the drug could have, especially during the first few days during which the body is adapting to the medication. (references) | ||
The goals of cognitive and behavioral rehabilitation are to enhance the person's capacity to process and interpret information and to improve the person's ability to function in all aspects of family and community life. Restorative training focuses on improving a specific cognitive function, whereas compensatory training focuses on adapting to the presence of a cognitive deficit. (references) | ||
Business | Italy is constantly adapting its legislation to EU environmental directives, which are establishing higher standards. (references) | |
The French travel industry is confronting the challenge of adapting its methods of distribution in order to be able to compete with these new channels. (references) | ||
Since the beginning of 1999, Poland has been adapting to a new healthcare system in which the functions of payer, provider and administrator have been separated. (references) | ||
Children | Russia | In addition there are approximately 3,000 young persons aged 18 to 24, most of whom were discharged from state institutions and given state housing, who have difficulty maintaining a residence and adapting to noninstitutional life in general. (references) |
Economic History | Australia | The market is rapidly growing, diversifying and adapting to swift technological change. (references) |
South Africa | Local companies are adept both in adapting overseas goods for the African market and in marketing these goods throughout the region. (references) | |
Human Rights | Venezuela | Frustration among law enforcement entities over the difficulty of adapting to the COPP and public perceptions that the COPP's higher evidentiary standards and greater rights for the accused are responsible for rising crime levels led the National Assembly to form a mixed committee of jurists to propose reforms to the law. (references) |
Political Economy | Nepal | Rule of Law: Nepal is still adapting to its new democratic system of government, which was introduced following a popular movement to restore democracy in 1990. A complete code of law has not yet been developed. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. So skilled the parson was in homiletics That all his normal purges and emetics To medicine the spirit were compounded With a most just discrimination founded Upon a rigorous examination Of tongue and pulse and heart and respiration. Then, having diagnosed each one's condition, His scriptural specifics this physician Administered -- his pills so efficacious And pukes of disposition so vivacious That souls afflicted with ten kinds of Adam Were convalescent ere they knew they had 'em. But Slander's tongue -- itself all coated -- uttered Her bilious mind and scandalously muttered That in the case of patients having money The pills were sugar and the pukes were honey. Biography of Bishop Potter |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | A revision of the militia laws for the purpose of rendering them more systematic and better adapting them to emergencies of the war is at this time particularly desirable. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "ADAPTING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.84% of the time. "ADAPTING" is used about 285 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 96.84% | 276 | 17,631 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.4% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.05% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 285 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Containing "ADAPTING": self-adapting program. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adapting | 10 |
adapting to change | 6 |
adapting material source | 6 |
adapting homework | 2 |
adapting mediator observer | 2 |
adapting advertising gamble in japan procter | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ADAPTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 适" (acclimatise, Acclimatize, Acclimatized, Acclimatizing, Adapt, Adaptation, Adapted, Adaption, back-geared, Conditioned, Conditioning, geared). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | adaptering (adaptation), tilpasning (acclimation, acclimatization, acculturation, adaptation, adjust, adjusting, adjustment, appropriation, assimilation, blending, conditioning, fitting, match, matching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aanpassen (accommodate, accomodate, adapt, adjust, adjustment, attempt, attune, fit, fix, mount, place, test, to acclimate, to smooth, to smoothe, try, try on, tune). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mukautuminen (accommodation, adaptation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adaptation (adaptation, adjustment, ocular adaptation), réactualisation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | angleichend (approximate, assimilative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προσαρμογή (accommodation, Adapt, adaptation, adjust, adjustment, blending, fit, fitting, match, matching, occlusal levelling, ocular adaptation, regulation, shakedown, the ability of the eye to change its focus from distant to near objects). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | adattamento (accommodation, adaptation, adaption, adaptor, adjustment, appropriation, arrangement, fitness, fitting, habituation, matching, ocular adaptation, setting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 臨機応変 (adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment, playing it by ear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | り"きおうへ" (adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment, playing it by ear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 응 (Adaptation, Adaption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adaptingay adaptação (acclimate, acclimation, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, conformation, fit, naturalize, suiting). (various references) adaptación (accommodation, accommodation ability, adaptation, adjustment, arrangement, conversion, matching, ocular adaptation). (various references) anpassning (accommodating, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, alignment, conformation, conformity, harmanization, harmonization, matching, orientation, readjustment). (various references) адаптування. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ADAPTING": misadapting, preadapting, readapting. (additional references) | |
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"ADAPTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adipsin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ADAPTING" (pronounced uda"pting) |
| 4 | -p t i ng | accepting, adopting, attempting, bankrupting, corrupting, disrupting, erupting, excepting, exempting, intercepting, interrupting, opting, preempting, prompting, sculpting, tempting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accommodating, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-i-n-p-t" | |
-1 letter: pintada. | |
-2 letters: dating, padnag, pandit, patina, pinata, taipan, taping. | |
-3 letters: adapt, again, apian, aping, giant, inapt, naiad, pagan, paint, panda, panga, patin, pinta, taiga. | |
-4 letters: adit, agin, anga, anta, anti, atap, dang, data, ding, dint, dipt, dita, gadi, gain, gait, gnat, nada, nipa, padi, paid, pain, pang, pant, pian, pina, ping, pint, pita, tain, tang, tapa, ting. | |
-5 letters: aga, aid, ain, ait, ana, and, ani, ant, apt, dag, dap, dig, din, dip, dit, gad, gan, gap, gat, gid, gin, gip, git, nag, nap, nip, nit, pad, pan, pat, pia, pig, pin, pit, tad, tag, tan, tap, tin, tip. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-g-i-n-p-t" | |
+1 letter: paginated. | |
+2 letters: lapidating, readapting. | |
+3 letters: misadapting, plantigrade, preadapting. | |
+4 letters: decapitating, dilapidating, plantigrades, propagandist, sandpainting. | |
+5 letters: disparagement, propagandists, prostaglandin, sandpaintings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 44 41 50 54 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. .- .--. - .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000100 01000001 01010000 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A D A P T I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0044 0041 0050 0054 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3538355054434841 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Quotations: Speeches 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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