Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: adjusted
IPA transcription: [ədʒ'ʌstɪd]
Pronunciations of adjusted
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: adjusted
    Meaning: altered to accommodate to certain requirements or bring into a proper relation; "an adjusted insurance claim"; "the car runs more smoothly with the timing adjusted"
Usage examples
  • These preliminaries adjusted, Rose and Oliver returned home.
  • As temperature must be adjusted to man's need, climate satisfies wants directly.
  • A band slipped, a spring was touched, the gear was adjusted and the wheels revolve in their old orbit.
  • Being an animal which hunts both by day and night, the structure of its visual organs is adjusted for both.
  • The action of a piano, like any other delicate piece of machinery, should be carefully examined, and, if necessary, adjusted each time it is tuned.
  • They couldn't do it mechanically, but by the time the last machine collapsed, enough people were adjusted to the environment to keep the race going.
  • Men are moral under the eyes of their neighbors, acquaintances, and families; habits become adjusted to right standards, and the temptations in new conditions are always great.
  • Progress is threatened unless social institutions can be so adjusted as to reverse the present process of multiplying the poorest, and of extinguishing the most capable families.
  • The fields of benevolence and love extend far beyond; and when economy has adjusted its balance, the mind begins to benefit by its own justice, and the heart expands in the boundlessness of its affection.
  • On his head, which had been skilfully deprived of every scrap of hair, he adjusted a pleasant little cap of bright scarlet, held on by suction and inflated with hydrogen, and curiously like the comb of a cock.
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