When you adjust to something, you change so that you can fit in, conform, or keep on going. Arriving at a new school almost always requires that you adjust a little. Once you adjust, you'll find you're as happy as you were in your old school.
To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations;
Verb
adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"
Verb
alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels"
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make correspondent or conformable; "Adjust your eyes to the darkness"
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place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight; "align the car with the curb"; "align the sheets of paper on the table"
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decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.
v. t.
To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that
parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the
differences are adjusted.
v. t.
To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an
instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or
microscope.
Adjust
Adjusting the orthography.3.
To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations;
Usage Examples
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.
In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'
You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.
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Other Usage ExamplesMy mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.
I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.
The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.
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