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Definition
changing to adjust to different circumstances; or something changed for that reasonin various senses, including:
- film script based on a novel — as in "the screen adaptation of Rowling's novel"
- changes in the species resulting from environmental conditions — as in"the adaptation of the finch to the Galapagos Islands"
- changes in the eye to adjust to the amount of light — as in "adaptation to the darkness"
- Hence adaptations which were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated themselves as best they might.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- In both these adaptations the reference to spring (vesna) matched the impression made by the young lad.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- This is what we call adaptation.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- I've viewed my life until now as a series of unrelated adaptations, from Irish Niamh to American Dorothy to the reincarnated Vivian.Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
- Another thing is that I am obsessed by the problem of mimicry, the outward adaptation of an organism to the color of its environment.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- She had to be capable of adaptation.Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
- For me, it was like watching an adaptation of the last couple of years of my parents' marriage, just with someone else playing the role of My Mom.Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride
- I wondered if she was not protected by some genetic or cultural adaptation to alcohol which Slavic people seem to share with the Celts.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- I have nothing to show except bad film adaptations of my life.Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
- Sarayu was quick to reply, "Don't confuse adaptation for intention, or seduction for reality."William P. Young -- The Shack
- No immunity, no adaptation, no antibodies would have been developed.Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
- This facile adaptation was at once the symptom of perfect health and its best preservative.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- It was among lean-to's and adaptations—past ogham stones commemorating some long-dead Deag the son of No, built into a later bastion upside down.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- I would like my DVD of the movie Adaptation.Holly Goldberg Sloan -- Counting by 7s
- 'But with this change in condition comes inevitably adaptations to the change.H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
- Glenn complimented her upon her adaptation to such unpleasant conditions.Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
- The attacks relied on this critical adaptation.Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
- But it gives you our general idea and you'll work it out yourself, make your own adaptation of the Classic motive to the facade.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- In some ways, this is not much of an adaptation for a black man in South Africa.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- Nor is the Shakespeare adaptation phenomenon restricted to the stage and screen.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor