Word Finder - adaptation

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The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.

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A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.

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The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.

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An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.

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The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.

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(authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.

Progress is the result of adaptation, rather than reconstruction.

The short feet of the penguins are an adaptation.

The flowers show well-marked adaptation to their color and attract insects.

It is an adaptation of hide-the-thimble.

The adaptation of the Pulmonata to terrestrial life has entailed little modification of the internal organization.

The early Christian agape admitted of adaptation to the older funeral and sacrificial feasts, and was so adapted.

In each of the three cases there is adaptation, but the amount of adaptation differs in each case according to local circumstances.

They endeavoured to define aspects of vegetation in which the forms exhibited an obvious adaptation to their climatic surroundings.

The adaptation of the Gospel to the changing conditions of humanity is to-day a more pressing need than ever.

This game is really an adaptation of musical chairs.

One of the great evils of Italian agricultural taxation is its lack of elasticity and of adaptation to local conditions.

Thus Asclepiadeae and Orchideae owe their extraordinary floral complexity to adaptation to insect fertilization.

That can be a hard adaptation for a strong-willed, independent woman, so if that's you, beware!

Though adaptation to the environment seems sometimes to be considered, especially by neo-Lamarckians, as equivalent to, or at least as involving, the evolution of higher forms from Jower, there does not appear to be any evidence that this is the case.

The earliest known French romance of Alexander, by Alberic of Besancon (or more properly Briancon), was, until the discovery of a fragment of ioq lines at Florence in 1852, known only through the German adaptation by Lamprecht the preacher, who wrote towards the end of the 12th century, and by the version made by a Poitevin poet named Simon in decasyllabic lines.

This picturesque writing is well suited for adaptation into other forms of art, including tattoos.

In 2005, Jessica made her big screen debut as Daisy Duke in the film adaptation of The Dukes of Hazzard.

In November of 2008, the movie adaptation of the first book in the Twilight saga, Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer was released in theaters across America, along with the soundtrack that went along with the movie.

There is hardly one of Wagner's orchestral innovations which is not inseparably connected with his adaptation of music to the re q uirements of drama; and modern conductors, in treating Wagner's orchestration, as the normal standard by which all previous and contemporary music must be judged, are doing their best to found a tradition which in another fifty years will be exploded as thoroughly as the tradition of symphonic additional accompaniments is now exploded in the performances of Bach and Handel.

An adaptation administered to children aged three to ten is the Children's Apperception Test (CAT).

Grapefruit appears on each adaptation of the diet as well.

All three were involved in the film adaptation of the stage show.

By the following year, an American company released an adaptation of the original film.

While Europe and probably North America were occupied by a warm temperate flora, tropical types had been driven southward, while the adaptation of others to arctic conditions had become accentuated.

Continued existence implies perpetual adaptation to new conditions, and, as the adjustment becomes more refined, the corresponding structural organization becomes more elaborate.

This word is of doubtful origin, but it is probably an adaptation of the Fr.

With a little adaptation it can work for both genders.

Poor adaptation to the dark, or night blindness, is an early result of a Vitamin A deficiency.

In 2009, Rob Zombie directed an adaptation of Halloween II.

In endeavouring to trace the causation of adaptation, it is obvious that it must be due quite as much to properties inherent in the plant as to the action of external conditions; the plant must possess adaptive capacity.

In Ireland the Norman was more purely a conqueror than anywhere else; but in Ireland his power of adaptation caused him to sink in a way in which he sank nowhere else.

And now occurs another device or adaptation no less marvellous than those of which mention has been made.

The Japanese people have added to their ancient civilization and their remarkable artistic faculty, an adaptation of Western methods, and a capacity for progress in war and commerce, which single them out among Eastern races as a great modern world-force.

Moreover, Professor Lilljeborg's scheme, being actually an adaptation of that of Sundevall, of which we shall have to speak at some length almost immediately, may possibly be left for the present with these remarks.

Some scholars, indeed, hold that the entire work is practically an adaptation of the lost Pratum of Suetonius.

He sold his share in the property in 1776 for £35,000, and took leave of the stage by playing a round of his favourite characters - Hamlet, Lear, Richard and Benedick, among Shakespearian parts; Lusignan in Zara, Aaron Hill's adaptation of Voltaire's Zaire; and Kitely in his own adaptation of Ben Jonson's Archer in Farquhar's Beaux' Stratagem; Abel Drugger in Ben Jonson's Alchemist; Sir John Brute in Vanbrugh's Provoked Wife; Leon in Fletcher's Rule a Wife and have a Wife.

In this way the Good was made to appear as an end imposed upon things from without by a creative intelligence instead of as an inner principle of adaptation.

The government of Brookline (pop. in 1905, 2 3,43 6) is an interesting example of the adaptation of the township system to urban conditions.

The word as spelled represents the pronunciation of the Cape Dutch milje, an adaptation of milho (da India), the millet of India, the Portuguese name for millet, used in South Africa for maize.

He edited the earlier volumes of a Bibelwerk (19 vols., 1749-70) which was designed as an adaptation for German readers of the exegetical works of Andrew Willet, Henry Ainsworth, Symon Patrick, Matthew Poole, Matthew Henry and others.

To condemn re-shaping or adaptation of this nature from a modern Western standpoint is to misunderstand entirely the Oriental mind and Oriental usage.

It is an adaptation of the Syriac writing introduced by the early Nestorian missionaries.

In Le Chevalier de la Charrette, however, which followed Cliges, we find Lancelot alike as leading knight of the court and lover of the queen, in fact, precisely in the position he occupies in the prose romance, where, indeed, the section dealing with this adventure is, as Gaston Paris clearly proved, an almost literal adaptation of Chretien's poem.

Progress is the result of adaptation rather than reconstruction.

It proceeds by adaptation and precedent.

The stirring melody of the Marseillaise and its ingenious adaptation to the words serve to disguise the alternate poverty and bombast of the words themselves.

The lack of thumbs in spider monkeys is an adaptation for swinging through the trees.

It is in the adaptation of biological conceptions and methods, in the positive contributions of jurisprudence, law and history, in the rigorous application, where possible, of quantitative tests, that the explanation of the present position of economics is to be found.

But a survey of the Hexapoda as a whole, and especially a comparative study of the tracheal system, can hardly leave room for doubt that this system is primitively adapted for atmospheric breathing, and that the presence of tracheal gills in larvae must be regarded as a special adaptation for temporary aquatic life.

The most striking of these modern buildings are the new wing of the Hotel d'Italie, San Moise, and the very successful fish market at Rialto, designed by Laurenti and carried out by Rupolo, in which a happy return to early Venetian Gothic has been effected in conjunction with a skilful adaptation of one of the most famous of the old houses of Venice, the Stalon, or palace of the Quirini family.