Adams
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~ a mountain peak in southwestern Washington in the Cascade Range (12,307 feet high)
Adams
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~ 6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848)
Adams
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~ American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803)
adana
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~ a city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River
adansonia
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~ baobab; cream-of-tartar tree
Adapa
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~ a Babylonian demigod or first man (sometimes identified with Adam)
Adapid
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~ extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
Adapin
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~ a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Adapin and Sinequan) with numerous side effects (dry mouth and sedation and gastrointestinal disturbances)
adapt
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~ adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"
adapt
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~ make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"
adaptability
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~ the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances
adaptable
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~ capable of adapting (of becoming or being made suitable) to a particular situation or use; "to succeed one must be adaptable"; "the frame was adaptable to cloth bolts of different widths"
adaptation
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~ the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
adaptation
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~ (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
adaptation
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~ a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form; "the play is an adaptation of a short novel"
adaptational
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~ of or relating to adaptation
adaptative
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~ having a capacity for adaptation; "the adaptive coloring of a chameleon"
adapted
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~ changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose; "seeds precisely adapted to the area"; "instructions altered to suit the children's different ages"
adapter
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~ device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible
adapter
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~ a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance