Adaptation
The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.
The result of adapting; an adapted form.
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Adaptation Quotations
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
Henry Miller
I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.
Norman Jewison
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
Lord Chesterfield
I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.
Satyajit Ray
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
Ernst Mach
I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
Warren Christopher
When you talk to crews that went to Mir or have gone up to International Space Station, they say that you go through different phases of adaptation or getting used to the space environment.
Laurel Clark
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.
Ellsworth Huntington
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
Alfred de Vigny
They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'
Robert B. Parker
Adaptation Translations
adaptation in Dutch is modificatie, bewerking, aanpassing
adaptation in French is adaptation
adaptation in German is Anpassung {f}
adaptation in Italian is adattamento
adaptation in Swedish is anpassning, adaptation
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