right, set to rights, straighten, focus, tune in orup, attune, fine-tune; bring into line, synchronize, collimate, calibrate, align, balance.
3. settle, resolve, clear up, reconcile, make up, compose, harmonize; make peace, come to terms, agree, compromise, accommodate; arbitrate, negotiate, arrange terms, mediate; square, rectify, set right, redress, satisfy; make amends, mend, patch, heal.
4. adapt, acclimate, acclimatize, naturalize, become accustomed to, get used to, become familiar with; accustom, familiarize, make used to, habituate, assimilate; inure, harden, toughen, season, temper, anneal.
adjustable, adj.1. adaptable, changeable, variable, alterable, modifiable, transformable; acclimatable, ac-climitizable, Both Sociol.
acculturational, acculturative.
2. pliable, pliant, flexible, bendable, moveable, yielding, plastic; malleable, ductile, tractile; conformable, compliant, accomodative, adaptive; amenable, agreeable, accommodating, obliging; manageable, submissive, docile, tractable.
adjustment, n.1. adaptation, adaptedness, fit, fit-tedness; accommodation, conformity, compliance, yieldingness, correspondence, agreement; alteration, modification, change, conversion, transformation, metamorphosis; fashioning, shaping, proportionment, remodeling.
2. acclimation, acclimatization, acclimatation, Rare. acclimature, Rare,
acclimatement, naturalization, habituation, Sociol.
acculturation; accustomedness, familiarity, familiarization, familiarness, acquaintance, acquaintanceship, acquaintedness; hardening, toughening, seasoning, inurement, inuredness.
3. repair, regulating, tune-up; fixing, righting, setting right; straightening, focusing, tuning in, fine-tuning; bringing into line, coordination, synchronization, collimation, calibration, alignment, balancing.
4. settlement, agreement, compromise, accommodation, composition; reconciliation, Music,
resolution, making up, making peace, coming to terms, harmonization; arbitration, negotiation, mediation; squaring, rectification, setting right, redress; satisfaction, amends, mending, patching, healing.
5. knob, lever, handle, grip, switch, button, instrument.
adlib, n.1. improvisation, extemporization, impromptu; (all extemporaneous)
speech, remark, quip, retort; composition, piece, riff; performance, execution. -adv.
2. at one's pleasure, any way at all, any which way; freely, without restriction, without deliberation, impulsively, suddenly, on the spur of the moment; spontaneously, extempore, extemporaneously, offhand; without preparing orrehearsing.
ad-lib, v. 1. improvise, extemporize, SI.wing it, play it by ear; (all extempore)
create, invent, originate, make up, fabricate; compose, perform, execute.
-adj.
2. impromptu, improvised, makeshift, extemporaneous, extempore, offhand; unprepared, unplanned, unpremeditated, unrehearsed, off the top of one's head, SI.off-the-cuff; spontaneous, impulsive, sudden, spur-of-the-moment.
administer, v. 1. manage, control, conduct, direct, officiate; superintend, supervise, oversee, preside over, look after; govern, rule, head, lead, reign; execute, regulate, engineer, operate; implement, prosecute, carry out, effectuate, fulfill, bring to bear, put through, (of an estate)
settle, arrange, dispose.
2. discharge, dispense, disburse; assign, allot, apportion, deal, mete; dole, measure, parcel; subscribe, tender, proffer, offer; furnish, accommodate, afford, provide; distribute, supply, equip, bestow.
3. apply, treat, attend, minister, doctor; medicate, dose, drug, physic.