word-vault/dist/data/cards/ad/adaptation.json

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{
    "term": "adaptation",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the action or process of changing something, or of being changed, to suit a new purpose or situation",
            "sensetop": "adaptation to something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the adaptation of buildings for military purposes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The process of adaptation to a new school is difficult for some children.",
                    "contextForm": "adaptation to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "making adaptations to your home"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["successful", "special", "evolutionary"],
                "verb + adaptation": ["make"],
                "adaptation + verb": ["occur"],
                "preposition": ["adaptation for", "adaptation of", "adaptation to"],
                "phrases": ["a process of adaptation"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a film, television drama or play that is based on a particular book or play but has been changed to suit the new medium",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Film and theatre"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["cinematic", "film", "movie"],
                "verb + adaptation": ["develop", "direct", "film"],
                "preposition": ["adaptation of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the process of change by which a species becomes better suited to its environment",
            "sensetop": "adaptation (of something) (to something)",
            "labels": "(biology)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the adaptation of desert species to the hot conditions"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Adaptations in plants occur over thousands of years."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌædæpˈteɪʃn/",
                "audio": "ad/adaptation/adaptation__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈdæpʃn/",
                "audio": "ad/adaptation/adaption__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌædæpˈteɪʃn/",
                "audio": "ad/adaptation/adaptation__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈdæpʃn/",
                "audio": "ad/adaptation/adaption__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from French, from late Latin adaptatio(n-), from Latin adaptare, from ad- ‘to’ + aptare(from aptus ‘fit’)."
}