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Adjust

verb

(past & past part. adjusted; pres. part. adjusting)

Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard. Synonyms: correct, set. "Correct the alignment of the front wheels"

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" Antonym: skew.

Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions. Synonyms: adapt, conform.

Make correspondent or conformable.

Decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim.

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"Adjust" Quotes from Famous Books

... this business, although it seems to afford employment, if not delight, to Gen. Winder and his Baltimore detectives, is rather distasteful to me. And when I reflect upon it, I cannot imagine how Mr. Benjamin may adjust the matter with his conscience. It will soon cure itself, however; a few arrests ...

— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones

... subdued voice whether he had been hurt and inquired about the wheels, and he bent over them. Spiele's wheel was undamaged. His own well-worn machine had more than stood the test; he had only to adjust the bar and they could go on; the bump which the frame had received was only a new mark of honor. Spiele thanked Victor for his assistance. Now she appeared again in such a halo of prudence and womanly kindness, that he would have liked to tear his heart ...

— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various

... more of a task than he had anticipated to get the motor in shape to run the ARROW back under her own power. The magneto was out of order and the batteries needed renewing, while the spark coil had short-circuited and took considerable time to adjust. But by using some new dry cells, which Mr. Hastings gave him, and cutting out the magneto, or small dynamo which produces the spark that exploded the gasoline in the cylinders, Tom soon had a fine, "fat" hot ...

— Tom Swift and his Motor-boat - or, The Rivals of Lake Carlopa • Victor Appleton

... enter the world with an abundance of nerve energy, and by conserving that energy we can adapt and adjust our nerve equipment to keep pace with the progress and evolution ...

— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter

... you will do it. If you had gone to Oxford you would have sacrificed all the momentum you have gained in Manchester; and would have had to begin de novo, among conditions which, I imagine, it is very hard for a non-University man to appreciate and adjust ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley

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