ADAPTATION


Meaning of ADAPTATION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

special

Charity cash-raising activities to finance special adaptations .

Also, in association with the Partially Sighted Society, special adaptations were made.

Life in the ocean depths poses many special problems, requiring special adaptations .

It does this through a special adaptation that allows it to adjust the concentration of its blood.

Laying and distributing the eggs in small batches is a special adaptation to these hot desert conditions.

successful

It is a highly successful adaptation of an advertisement which was first shown back in the early 1980s in Britain.

The first attempts failed, but with collaboration from Hebb and others, successful adaptations were made.

■ NOUN

film

Where a film adaptation could ventilate the humid bachelor atmosphere of Hornby's novel is in giving opportunities for women.

Its film adaptation was a big hit and won five Oscars, including best picture.

stage

Equally disappointing is the latest stage adaptation of a Roald Dahl story for children at Christmas.

The censors had also insisted on a cut in his stage adaptation of Anna Karenina.

■ VERB

require

For the male pied flycatcher, bigamy is obviously a successful strategy, but it also requires quite complex behavioural adaptations .

It required cellular adaptations in thought and nerve fiber.

Life in the ocean depths poses many special problems, requiring special adaptations .

The application form asks if you require adaptations , and you must say what you need and why.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

She was responsible for the adaptation of the book "The Witches of Eastwick" into a stage play.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

In addition, a decrease in size seems to have accompanied adaptation to an exclusively arboreal life.

In this way, provisional adaptations turn into routine commitments.

It is simply that adaptation and ancestry can explain what adaptation alone can not.

Its film adaptation was a big hit and won five Oscars, including best picture.

The work does not involve major adaptations or renovation.

This form developed bipedalism and other adaptations to the newly opening arid savannah landscape and eventually became the ancestor of man.

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