Adjust
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.
To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.
To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.
To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.
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Adjust Quotations
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
Denis Diderot
Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
Eric Clapton
But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.
Michael Polanyi
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.'
Jimmy Carter
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
Jimmy Carter
One thing that took a while to really adjust to was, you do it for the the art, for the money, for being together and having a good time, but you do it for all those people out there who really care about the show. We are now talking about a show we did over 20 years ago.
Steve Kanaly
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Will Durant
Adjust Translations
adjust in Afrikaans is verstel
adjust in Dutch is aanpassen, afstemmen, adapteren
adjust in French is braquer, rectifier, adapter, ajustons, correction
adjust in German is stellen, berichtigen, einstellen
adjust in Italian is emendare, correggere
adjust in Latin is adapto
adjust in Norwegian is instille
adjust in Portuguese is ajuste
adjust in Spanish is colocar, corregir, adaptar, ajustar, acomodar
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