Difference between Adapt and Accommodate

What is the difference between Adapt and Accommodate?

Adapt as a verb is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion. while Accommodate as a verb is to render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

Adapt

Part of speech: verb

Definition: 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.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

Example sentence: In our personal and professional lives, we are constantly hit with one adversity after the other, most of which we have no control over. But the four things we have total control over is how we react, how we adapt, how we breathe, and how we take action.

Accommodate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end. - John Tillotson

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.To bring into agreement or harmony; to reconcile; to compose; to adjust; to settle; as, to accommodate differences, a dispute, etc.To furnish with something desired, needed, or convenient; to favor; to oblige; as, to accommodate a friend with a loan or with lodgings.To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.(intransitive) (rare) To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. - Boyle

Example sentence: Babies are born bow-legged in South Dakota. By the age of 12, they can purchase guns. At 14, they can take their driving test. Fortunately, since the geographical area of South Dakota can accommodate both France and Germany, but has a population of only 750,000, the chances of hitting anything are pretty slim.

We hope you now know whether to use Adapt or Accommodate in your sentence.

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