Excerpt vs Adaptation - What's the difference?
excerpt | adaptation |
a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media
To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
* Fuller
(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.}}
As nouns the difference between excerpt and adaptation
is that excerpt is a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media while adaptation is the quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.As a verb excerpt
is to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.excerpt
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
- out of which we have excerpted the following particulars