All 3 Uses of
adaptation
in
The Fountainhead
- 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.†
Chpt 1.15 *adaptation = something adjusted for circumstances; or an adjustment for circumstances
- It was not a parody, it was a serious job of adaptation in what any professor would have called excellent taste.†
Chpt 4.3
- Others declared that there was a certain similarity between the design of Cortlandt and Roark's style of building, that Keating, Prescott and Webb might have borrowed a little from Roark—"a legitimate adaptation"—"there's no property rights on ideas"—"in a democracy, art belongs to all the people"—and that Roark had been prompted by the vengeance lust of an artist who had believed himself plagiarized.†
Chpt 4.13
Definition:
changing to adjust to different circumstances; or something changed for that reason
in 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"