"Adjust" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
To bring to proper relations; to settle; to determine and apportion an uinount due. Flaherty v. Insurance Co., 20 App. Div. 275, 46 N. Y. Supp. 934; Miller v. Insurance Co., 113 Iowa, 211, 84 N. W. 1049; washington County v. St. Louis, etc., IL Co., 58 Mo. 376
To put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.
To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an
instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or
microscope.
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 settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that
parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the
differences are adjusted.
Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing.
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