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Adjust   /ədʒˈəst/   Listen
verb
Adjust  v. t.  (past & past part. adjusted; pres. part. adjusting)  
1.
To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.
2.
To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system. "Adjusting the orthography."
3.
To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.
4.
To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.
Synonyms: To adapt; suit; arrange; regulate; accommodate; set right; rectify; settle.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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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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