It’s an adjective; it means able to adjust to new conditions or capable of being modified for a new purpose. It can be applied to both people and objects and some authorities say that being adaptable, able to cope with changing conditions, is why humans are the dominant life form on earth.
It is frequently used in the workplace to describe someone who can handle anything and is capable of taking on the jobs that would have others scratching their heads until they got splinters under their fingers. It is also used to describe members of the British armed forces, one reason, perhaps, why they are the best in the world.
It is frequently used in the workplace to describe someone who can handle anything and is capable of taking on the jobs that would have others scratching their heads until they got splinters under their fingers. It is also used to describe members of the British armed forces, one reason, perhaps, why they are the best in the world.
People are adaptable when conditions change.
The telephone was sufficiently adaptable to go mobile and send texts.
The telephone was sufficiently adaptable to go mobile and send texts.
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Adoptoraptors are known to adopt children from overseas because they never want the child to be able to find his/her biological parents. The adopted child's biological history, ethncity, and culture are irrelevant to an adoptoraptor because the child's needs are not what is important.
Adoptoraptors who adopt within their own country use their money to pay off corrupt adoption agencies that facilitate adoptions where the fathers are never informed that they have a child and their rights are stripped. The agencies they use coerce women in "crisis" pregnancies to give up their children to the adoption machine so that they can be sold to adoptoraptors.
Adoptoraptors do not want their child to ever know his/her biological parents or family. They support immoral legislation that seals an adoptee's original birth certificate and replaces it with a falsified amended one listing the adopted parents as the biological parents.
Adoptoraptors like to frequent adoptee blogs where they can belittle adopted persons for fun. They like to label adoptees as "angry", "angsty", "ungrateful", etc. for wanting to know their biological histories.
Adoptoraptors are known to adopt children from overseas because they never want the child to be able to find his/her biological parents. The adopted child's biological history, ethncity, and culture are irrelevant to an adoptoraptor because the child's needs are not what is important.
Adoptoraptors who adopt within their own country use their money to pay off corrupt adoption agencies that facilitate adoptions where the fathers are never informed that they have a child and their rights are stripped. The agencies they use coerce women in "crisis" pregnancies to give up their children to the adoption machine so that they can be sold to adoptoraptors.
Adoptoraptors do not want their child to ever know his/her biological parents or family. They support immoral legislation that seals an adoptee's original birth certificate and replaces it with a falsified amended one listing the adopted parents as the biological parents.
Adoptoraptors like to frequent adoptee blogs where they can belittle adopted persons for fun. They like to label adoptees as "angry", "angsty", "ungrateful", etc. for wanting to know their biological histories.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are adoptoraptors. Madonna is an adoptoraptor. Katherine Hiegl is an adoptoraptor. Sandra Bullock is an adoptoraptor.
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An "adoption" in chess is when one player beats another 10 in a row in the same time control, with no draws.
An adoption occurred on Chess Grandmaster Eric Hansen's twitch stream when he was challenged by Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura and proceeded to lose ten games in a row to Hikaru.
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Daryl "Improvise adapt overcome!"
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Me, and fellow intellectuals: "go commit apoptosis."
Me, and fellow intellectuals: "go commit apoptosis."
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Get the go commit apoptosis mug.1) The period of time needed to familiarize oneself with a new electronic device.
2) Often, a period of extreme anxiety and frustration stemming from one's need to learn a lot of technical information in a short to non-existent period of time.
2) Often, a period of extreme anxiety and frustration stemming from one's need to learn a lot of technical information in a short to non-existent period of time.
1) "I'm sorry, Joe. I won't be in to work today. I'm exhausted from staying up all night learning how to use my new i-phone and am suffering this morning from a bad case of contraption adaption."
2) "I'm now limiting my persuit of new e-toys to only those gadgets with a low level of contraption adaption."
3) The salesguy said: "If you buy this new Mac laptop today, I guarantee you'll start using it today." "Yeah, sure", I said. "I'll BET there's no contraption adaption for THIS machine!"
2) "I'm now limiting my persuit of new e-toys to only those gadgets with a low level of contraption adaption."
3) The salesguy said: "If you buy this new Mac laptop today, I guarantee you'll start using it today." "Yeah, sure", I said. "I'll BET there's no contraption adaption for THIS machine!"
by Juan O'Malley July 22, 2009
Get the contraption adaption mug.Adopteesplaining is when people other than adoptees try to speak for adoptees as if they know what they are thinking, feeling, etc. Many adoptive parents seem to think they are the experts on the adopted experience, when the real experts are the adopted persons themselves. Only the people disconnected from their biological families and given falsified birth certificates can truly describe this experience correctly.
Adopteesplaining is often used by adoptoraptors who adopted a child to fulfill their own selfish needs and desires.
Adopteesplaining is often used by adoptoraptors who adopted a child to fulfill their own selfish needs and desires.
“Five year old Mary has been in foster care for 9 months and is so excited to be adopted by her foster family.” said the adoption agency worker. Mary did not speak for herself. Adopteesplaining was used to project feelings and thoughts about Mary and for Mary.
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