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Adjust   /ədʒˈəst/   Listen
Adjust

verb
(past & past part. adjusted; pres. part. adjusting)
1.
Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard.  Synonyms: correct, set.  "Correct the alignment of the front wheels"
2.
Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight.  Synonyms: align, aline, line up.  "Align the sheets of paper on the table"
3.
Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions.  Synonyms: adapt, conform.
4.
Make correspondent or conformable.
5.
Decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim.



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"Adjust" Quotes from Famous Books



... of them, taking Tom by the shoulder, "it's your turn now, my lad;" and he proceeded to adjust a pair of handcuffs ...
— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton
... elderly and somewhat portly person, with a kindly, wrinkled countenance, which wore continually a smile of almost childish confidence and good-nature. It was a face which the illustrated prints had made intimately familiar. He held a book from him at arm's-length, as if to adjust his eyesight, and his ...
— Ranson's Folly • Richard Harding Davis
... hold the prisoner and adjust the noose; Murphy and Mount to the rope's end. Then I said: "Prisoner, this field-court finds you guilty of murder and orders your execution. Have you anything to say ...
— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers
... and eternally constructive forces—sympathy, good will, mutual understanding, induced and conserved by an International Joint Commission of able men whose business it is to investigate, to determine, and to adjust any differences that through the years may arise. Here we have a boundary line of upwards of three thousand miles and not a fort; vast areas of inland seas and not a war vessel; and for upwards of a hundred years not a difference that the High Joint ...
— The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit • Ralph Waldo Trine
... the black as he half-raised a spear threateningly toward the girl, then turned to adjust ...
— Astounding Stories, March, 1931 • Various


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