What's the difference between adapt and effigiate?
Adapt
Definition:
(a.) Fitted; suited.
(v. t.) To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(2) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(3) Caries-related bacteriological and biochemical factors were studied in 12 persons with low and 11 persons with normal salivary-secretion rates before and after a four-week period of frequent mouthrinses with 10% sorbitol solution (adaptation period).
(4) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(5) Their adaptive problems became worse while growing older until the age of 20.
(6) A more radical surgery is recommended but with the limitation that the operative method must be adapted to the operative finding.
(7) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
(8) Second, this report can be adopted and adapted by the entire health service, from dental practices to ambulances, from GP surgeries to acute hospitals.
(9) The morphology and physiology of the large adapting unit (LAU: Fig.
(10) We therefore conclude that the hyperphagia of chronic exercise in humans may be linked with significant gastrointestinal adaptations.
(11) However, this inhibition was not found in rats treated with castor oil for 3 d. Moreover, 5-HT concentration in the midbrain significantly decreased in rats that acquired the adaptability for the occurrence of diarrhea.
(12) Other experiments and results concerning spontaneous tumour frequency suggest that the strain is well adapted to standard environmental conditions, and could be useful for biomedical research.
(13) 98, 309-319] was adapted for the measurement of the asialoglycoprotein receptor in rat liver.
(14) During the first three weeks of adaptation drastic changes in the parameter were seen.
(15) The architecture of the aortic wall is highly organized, for adaptation to changes of blood pressure.
(16) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
(17) Previous FTIR measurements have identified several tyrosine residues that change their absorption characteristics between light-adapted BR and dark-adapted BR, or between intermediates K and M [Dollinger, G., Eisenstein, L., Lin, S.-L., Nakanishi, K., Odashima, K., & Termini, J.
(18) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(19) A plaque hybridization assay was adapted to rotavirus.
(20) The data suggest that the hypothalamic beta-E containing neurons were unable to adapt to nicotine's repeated effects on this system.
Effigiate
Definition:
(v. t.) To form as an effigy; hence, to fashion; to adapt.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Will I get burnt to death in a giant effigy of a man woven from wicker?"
(2) Rybak was indicted for inciting hatred last year after burning an effigy of an orthodox Jew during a protest against Muslim immigration.
(3) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
(4) Today, they pitch up outside Buxton Opera House, unpack an 8ft effigy of Big Ben and an even bigger gibbet, and – oh, yes – hang parliament.
(5) There has been little media interest in the campaign, with some of the most recent reports about the US president concerning the burning of effigies of him to protest against a blasphemous anti-Islam film posted on YouTube.
(6) A crowned effigy of the justice secretary, Chris Grayling , as King John clamped in the stocks was carried past parliamenton Monday as the government-backed Global Law summit celebrated the approaching 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
(7) There’s was lots of stuff going on there – arrests, burning effigies – and not a peep in the press.
(8) Some women carried an effigy of a female version of the Philippine president, Benigno Aquino III, which will later be burnt in opposition to his policies, especially regarding issues such as aid distribution in the aftermath of typhoon Haiyan and privatisation of hospitals in the city.
(9) They brandished an effigy of the head of the ruling military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.
(10) The statement also rebuffed the proposal of dialogue with the South again, saying it would refuse talks unless Seoul apologised for its "monstrous criminal act" – a protest by 250 people in the capital on Monday during which effigies of the North's former leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, were burned.
(11) "No," reassured Lynch, "Eigg's sea name is Isle of the Big Women, so most probably it will be an effigy of a woman with giant boobies."
(12) They really don’t have the kinds of problems that they are protesting about that deserve the burning of effigies.
(13) In his Sunday Telegraph article, Paterson said Greenpeace burned an effigy of him and that he received death threats.
(14) Sussex police said they had been withdrawn following complaints on social media, but pictures emerged of one of the effigies at the centre of a fireworks display.
(15) Was this an ordinary car wreck, or were the two women, who had previously been threatened, shot at and burned in effigy because of their efforts to register black voters, targetted on that road?
(16) Here are some photos from the scenes: A group of demonstrators hold a mock coffin with an effigy of Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy during a protest against Spanish government austerity measures, on 15 September 2012.
(17) At one point, angry locals even burned an effigy of him.
(18) Is it an effigy of a sad girl looking defeated made out of pistachio sponge and marzipan?
(19) But it seems that the Salmond effigies were spared the flames after complaints were made.
(20) They threw rotten eggs and stones at the embassy compound, and the effigy was set on fire before being thrown over the high walls.