adaptation

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  1. noun The act or process of adapting.
  2. noun The state of being adapted.
  3. noun Something, such as a device or mechanism, that is changed or changes so as to become suitable to a new or special application or situation.
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  • The great success of one of his last plays, “Drink,” an adaptation from the French, in which Charles Warner is still thrilling audiences to this day, meant nothing to him because she was not alive to share it. —  The Story of My Life
  • It's a faithful adaptation, which is more than we could perhaps have hoped for, and the counter-argument is that Lewis, a skilled writer, knew what he was doing. —  ChallengingDestiny22:April2006
  • There had been speculation that the 16-year-old would be replaced with a more menacing actor for the adaptation, which is due out in the US in November. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Narayan had to withhold his permission to present it on stage, even as the adaptation was done by an old friend of his, a former literary editor of the New York Times. —  California Literary Review
  • Another device that Shaft added to their adaptation is a gag moment in which an empty bath pan falls onto the characters in their moments of stupidity. —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
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  1. from French adaptation, from Middle Latin adaptatio(n-), from Latin adaptare: see adapt, v.
 

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