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Adaptation vs Picturization - What's the difference?

adaptation | picturization |

As nouns the difference between adaptation and picturization

is that adaptation is (label) the quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment while picturization is the representation of something as a picture, or the adaptation of something into a picture, especially a motion picture.

adaptation

English

(wikipedia adaptation)

Noun

  • (label) The quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.
  • (label) Adjustment to extant conditions: as, adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation; modification of some thing or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its current environment.
  • * {{quote-book, title=, year=1911
    • , passage=ACCLIMATIZATION, the process of adaptation by which animals and plants are gradually rendered capable of surviving and flourishing in countries remote from their original habitats, or under meteorological conditions different from those which they have usually to endure, and at first injurious to them.}}
  • (label) Something which has been adapted; variation.
  • * {{quote-book, author=Frederick Lawton, title=, year=1910
    • , passage=Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.}}

    Derived terms

    {{der3, adaptational , adaptationism , adaptationist}}

    Related terms

    {{rel3, adapt , adaptability , adaptedness , adapter , adaption , adaptitude , co-adaptation}}

    picturization

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The representation of something as a picture, or the adaptation of something into a picture, especially a motion picture.
  • * 1915 , Variety , Review:
  • *:In the picturization of The Clansman Mr. Griffith has set such a pace it will take a long time before one will come along that can top it in point of production, acting, photography and direction.
  • * 1934 , Mordaunt Hall, The New York Times , Movie review:
  • *:In Dr. Monica , a picturization of a Polish play which reached the Strand screen last night, the handsome Kay Francis is cast as a renowned obstetrician.
  • *1935 , (Robert Bloch), ‘The Shambler from the Stars’:
  • *:A meager talent for sketching and crayon work led me to attempt crude picturizations involving the outlandish denizens of my nighted thoughts.
  • * 2005 , Richard Corliss, Time , Profile of A.R. Rahman:
  • *:Toward the end of the film Nazu rushes into her bedroom, clamps on headphones and listens to the technopoppy "I Wanna Be Free." The picturization shows her moving convulsively, desperately to the funky beat, turning ever more agitated, until we wonder what she wants to be free from: free from her domestic vise, or free from life?

    • Related terms

    * filmization