adjust
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ajusten, borrowed from Middle French adjuster, or Old French, from Latin ad (“to, up to, towards”) + iustus (“correct, proper, exact”); Equivalent to ad- + just. Probably influenced in sense by Old French ajouster (cf. modern ajouter), from Vulgar Latin *adiuxtāre, from Latin iuxta. The Middle English originally meant "to correct, remedy" in the late 14th century, and was reborrowed from Middle French in the early 17th century. According to another view on the etymology, the word was actually derived from Old French ajouster and then supposedly later influenced by folk etymology from Latin iustus; if so, it is a doublet of adjute.
Base: just
Affixes: ad-
Inflected forms:
form: adjusts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adjusting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adjusted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: adjusted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: adjust
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: adjust
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: adjusted
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: adjust
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: adjustest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: adjusted
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: adjustedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: adjusts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adjusteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: adjusted
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: adjust
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: adjusted
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: adjust
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: adjusted
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: adjust
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: adjusting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adjusted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To modify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate.
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
gloss: To improve or rectify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He adjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data.
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
gloss: To settle an insurance claim.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Murder is dealt with by the law of blood-revenge, but the innocent manslayer may seek asylum at God's altar. With murder are ranked man-stealing, offences against parents, and witchcraft. Other injuries are occasions of self-help or of private suits to be adjusted at the sanctuary.
gloss: To change to fit circumstances.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community.
She waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.
Derived words: adjustability
adjustable
adjustage
adjuster
adjusting entry
adjustive
adjustment
adjustor
autoadjust
coadjust
disadjust
maladjust
microadjust
misadjust
nonadjusting
overadjust
preadjust
quality-adjusted life year
readjust
self-adjusting
underadjust
well-adjusted
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