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• adapt — verb 1 change your way of behaving ADVERB ▪ successfully, well ▪ The children have adapted well to the heat. ▪ quickly ▪ easily, readily …   Collocations dictionary

• adapt — [[t]ədæ̱pt[/t]] adapts, adapting, adapted 1) VERB If you adapt to a new situation or adapt yourself to it, you change your ideas or behaviour in order to deal with it successfully. [V to n] The world will be different, and we will have to be… …   English dictionary

• Book preservation in developing countries — is a growing concern among preservation and conservation librariansfact|date=July 2008. Without proper resources and training, many countries around the world struggle to maintain books and manuscripts as part of their cultural history.… …   Wikipedia

• adapt — a|dapt W3 [əˈdæpt] v [Date: 1400 1500; : French; Origin: adapter, from Latin adaptare, from ad to + aptare to make fit , from aptus; APT] 1.) [I and T] to gradually change your behaviour and attitudes in order to be successful in a new situation… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• adapt */*/ — UK [əˈdæpt] / US verb Word forms adapt : present tense I/you/we/they adapt he/she/it adapts present participle adapting past tense adapted past participle adapted 1) a) [intransitive] to change your ideas or behaviour so that you can deal with a… …   English dictionary

• adapt — a|dapt [ ə dæpt ] verb ** intransitive to change your ideas or behavior so that you can deal with a new situation: The company was accused of being slow to adapt. adapt to: Most students have little difficulty adapting to college life. a.… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Book of Common Order — ▪ religious work also called  Order of Geneva , or  Knox s Liturgy        first Reformed manual of worship in English, introduced to the English congregation in Geneva by John Knox (Knox, John) in 1556, adopted by the Scottish Reformers in 1562,… …   Universalium

• adapt — verb 1 (I, T) to gradually change your behaviour and attitudes so that you get used to a new situation and can deal with it successfully (+ to): The children are finding it hard to adapt to their new school. | plants that have adapted themselves… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• The Book of Lost Things — Infobox Book | name = The Book of Lost Things image caption = Front Cover of Dust Jacket author = John Connolly cover artist = Robert Ryan country = United States language = English genre = Fiction publisher = Atria Books pub date = November 2006 …   Wikipedia

• Blink (book) — Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking   …   Wikipedia

• The Hidden Curriculum (book) — The Hidden Curriculum (1970) is a book by Benson R. Snyder, the then Dean of Institute Relations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Snyder advocates the thesis that much of campus conflict and students personal anxiety is caused by a… …   Wikipedia