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Adjusted   /ədʒˈəstəd/  /ədʒˈəstɪd/   Listen
Adjusted

adjective
1.
Altered to accommodate to certain requirements or bring into a proper relation.  "The car runs more smoothly with the timing adjusted"
2.
Adjusted to demands of daily living; showing emotional stability.
3.
Having achieved a comfortable relation with your environment.  Synonyms: familiarised, familiarized.
4.
(especially of garments) having the fit or style adjusted.


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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"Adjusted" Quotes from Famous Books



... habits of the people. In this way we are able to account for the rather uncouth look observed in so many cases, the legs being too long and too heavy to please the cultured taste; yet in many cases the parts are so adjusted as to give an impression of firmness and strength, united with a goodly share of grace ...
— Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia • William Henry Holmes
... took from his pocket a pair of spectacles, and adjusted them, saying: I am sorry to admit it; I have got to come to it. I hate to put on a pair of spectacles, but the other day, as I was putting them on, a thought struck me. I see progress in this. To progress is to overcome the obstacles ...
— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I • Robert Green Ingersoll
... particularly when it is necessary to have the implement very steady, and the wheels may straddle the rows of low plants. Many of these wheel-hoes are provided with various shapes of blades, so that the implement may be adjusted to many kinds of work. Nearly all the weeding of beds of onions and like plants can be done by means of these wheel-hoes, if the ground is well prepared in the beginning; but it must be remembered that they are of comparatively small use ...
— Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) • L. H. Bailey
... life, one fraction of time, does not conflict with another. He looks on the past with satisfaction because he is enjoying the fruit of that past in present well-being. He looks to the future with confidence because the present contains the seeds of future well-being. Each step in life is adjusted to every other, and the result is a ...
— Practical Ethics • William DeWitt Hyde
... then she would go back. Idly gazing down from her secure height, her eye was suddenly caught by something creeping along the ground. Letty's keen sight at once decided this to be a man—a man with a log in his hand. This log he carefully adjusted across the track. ...
— The Children's Portion • Various


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