English Online Dictionary. What means adapter? What does adapter mean?
English
Alternative forms
- adaptor
Etymology
From adapt + -er.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ə-dăpʹtər
- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈdæptə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈdæptəɹ/
- Hyphenation: adap‧ter
- Rhymes: -æptə(ɹ)
Noun
adapter (plural adapters)
- One who is capable of adapting to differing situations.
- He was an able adapter, and could easily adjust to the differences when the company changed ownership.
- One who adapts a thing, e.g. a play.
- The critic gave rave reviews to the adapter of the ancient play, who worked to give the text more relevance to the modern day.
- A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.
- He had an adapter that let him plug his phone into the car's cigarette lighter for power.
- Specifically, a device that permits two or more plugs to be used at a single electrical power point.
- The wall outlet sprouted an electrical monstrosity of adapters plugged into adapters that sparked ominously.
- Specifically, a device that allows one format of plug to be used with a different format of socket.
- We bought adapters to use our three-prong plugs in the two-prong, unpolarized outlets of the old house.
- Specifically, an AC adapter: a device that reduces voltage and converts AC to DC to allow a battery-powered device to use mains power.
- I lost my cellphone's adapter so I couldn't recharge it.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Japanese: アダプター (adaputā)
Translations
References
- Category:adapters on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- re-adapt, readapt
Estonian
Noun
adapter (genitive adapteri, partitive adapterit)
- adapter (device)
Declension
(nonstandard)
French
Etymology
From Latin adaptare, from ad + aptare (“to fit”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.dap.te/
Verb
adapter
- (transitive) to adapt
- (reflexive, s'adapter) to adapt oneself or itself
Conjugation
Derived terms
- adaptable
- adapteur
- sport adapté
Descendants
- → Romanian: adapta
Further reading
- “adapter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- dérapât
Latin
Verb
adapter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adaptō
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adaptō.
Verb
adapter
- to adapt
Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (adapter, supplement)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English adapter. First attested in 1903.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈdap.tɛr/
- Rhymes: -aptɛr
- Syllabification: a‧dap‧ter
Noun
adapter m inan (diminutive adapterek)
- (electronics) adapter (a device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible)
- Synonyms: przejściówka, rozgałęziacz
- adapter sieciowy/sieci ― a network adapter
- adapter USB ― a USB adapter
- (music) gramophone, phonograph, record player
- Synonym: gramofon
- stary adapter ― an old gramophone
- głośnik adapteru ― a gramophone speaker
- igła adapteru ― a gramophone needle
- ramię adapteru ― a gramophone arm
- nastawić adapter ― to pop a gramophone on
- uruchomić adapter ― to start a gramophone
- włączyć adapter ― to turn on a gramophone
- wyłączyć adapter ― to turn off gramophone
- podłączyć adapter ― to hook up a gramophone
- ściszyć adapter ― to turn down a gramophone
- podgłośnić adapter ― to turn up a gramophone
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
References
Further reading
- adapter in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- adapter in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Noun
adapter c
- an adapter (device)
Declension
References
- adapter in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- adapter in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)