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noun
The process or result of becoming different.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A replacement.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A replacement.
A replacement of a soiled diaper with a clean one; a diaper change.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A transfer between vehicles.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A change-up pitch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: campanology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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noun
A public house; an alehouse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, countable, dated, uncountable
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verb
To become something different.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To make something into something else.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ergative, transitive
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verb
To replace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To replace one's clothing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it), especially to put a clean diaper on (someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To replace the sheets on (a bed) with fresh clean ones.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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verb
To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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verb
To exchange.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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verb
To change hand while riding (a horse).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
the action of changing something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: action
Narrower terms: entail, about-face, volte-face, reversal, policy change, adulteration, move, relocation, downshift, filtration, reduction, simplification, decimalization, decimalisation, metrification, metrication, variation, turning, diversification, variegation, flux, switch, switching, shift, substitution, exchange, commutation, promotion, demotion, change of state, alteration, modification, adjustment, motion, movement, motility, change of direction, reorientation, change of magnitude, change of integrity, conversion, updating, change of shape, satisfaction, nationalization, nationalisation, communization, communisation, secularization, secularisation, rollover
noun
a different or fresh set of clothes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment
noun
a thing that is different
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: thing
noun
a difference that is usually pleasant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: variety
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: difference
noun
an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: alteration, modification
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
Narrower terms: acceleration, deceleration, slowing, retardation, avulsion, break, mutation, sublimation, surprise, birth, nativity, nascency, nascence, separation, breakup, detachment, vagary, variation, fluctuation, conversion, death, decease, expiry, decrease, lessening, drop-off, destabilization, increase, easing, moderation, relief, deformation, transition, transformation, transmutation, shift, twinkle, scintillation, sparkling, shimmer, play, damage, harm, impairment, development, revolution, genetic mutation, chromosomal mutation, sex change, loss of consciousness
noun
the result of alteration or modification
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot
Narrower terms: depolarization, depolarisation
noun
money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cash, hard cash, hard currency
noun
the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cash, hard cash, hard currency
noun
coins of small denomination regarded collectively
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: coin
noun
a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: relation
Narrower terms: difference, gradient
verb
undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: stay
Narrower terms: freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up, dress, get dressed, grow, develop, produce, get, acquire, regenerate, shade, gel, brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise, convert, creolize, mutate, have, experience, decrepitate, suburbanize, suburbanise, roll, roll up, glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over, turn, barbarize, barbarise, alkalinize, alkalinise, change by reversal, reverse, change integrity, change shape, change form, deform, form, change state, adjust, conform, adapt, rise, jump, climb up, assimilate, dissimilate, change magnitude, modify, deaden, break, decay, crumble, dilapidate, mold, mildew, hydrate, dry, dry out, strengthen, distill, distil, deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce, crack, oxidize, oxidise, oxidate, mellow, melt, mellow out, soften, ionize, ionise, stabilize, stabilise, destabilize, destabilise, lighten, lighten up, discolor, discolour, colour, color, narrow, contract, darken, dim, boil, check, transpire, resume, take up, change surface, sublime, sublimate, cool, cool off, cool down, warm up, warm, transform, transmute, metamorphose, dull, complexify, ramify, Americanize, Americanise, modernize, modernise, stiffen, tighten, fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break down, yield, harden, indurate, suffuse, hush, normalize, normalise, reorient, purify, digest, regress, foul, decalcify, industrialize, industrialise, decarboxylate, spot, receive, find, obtain, incur, acetylate, acetylize, acetylise, assume, adopt, take on, take, prim, capacitate, caseate, clinker, cure, dawn, salinate, desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise, shallow, shoal, steepen, superannuate, ulcerate, vitrify, vulcanize, vulcanise, pall, become flat, saponify, move, run, come, catch, catch on, fly, evolve, assibilate, smoothen, turn on, drop, break into, deepen, change, concretize, concretise, commute, transpose, introject, shift, swing, fall, reflate, hydrolyze, hydrolyse, fold, fold up, gelatinize, gelatinise, felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat, recombine, feminize, feminise, obsolesce, plasticize, plasticise, recede, defervesce, incandesce, calcify, drift, play out, conjugate, isomerize, isomerise, evaporate, vaporise, gradate, keratinize, keratinise, opacify, mature, rejuvenate, sequester, transaminate, vesiculate, undulate, vascularize, vascularise, crash, professionalize, professionalise, flip, flip out, gum, repress, shear, damage, synthesize, come round, come around, promote, separate, divide, part, format, arrange, fall for, ascend, move up, change posture, settle, collapse, fall in, cave in, give, founder, undergo, solarize, solarise, occult, pass, leave, depart, pull up stakes, liberalize, liberalise, stratify, democratize, democratise, relax, loosen, reticulate, flocculate, carbonate, come in, go out, stagnate, make, ice up, frost over, ice over
verb
become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: alter, vary
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: alternate, jump, crackle, modulate, avianize, avianise, move, adapt, accommodate, let out, widen, take in, diversify, branch out, broaden, radiate, specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down, honeycomb, break
verb
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: alter, modify
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse, cause to sleep, affect, refresh, freshen, refreshen, inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise, indispose, cry, etiolate, shade, brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise, convert, opalize, opalise, arterialize, arterialise, make, get, counterchange, transpose, interchange, vascularize, vascularise, decrepitate, suburbanize, suburbanise, revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn, barbarize, barbarise, alkalinize, alkalinise, mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise, allegorize, allegorise, demythologize, demythologise, bring, land, coarsen, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch, alchemize, alchemise, alcoholize, alcoholise, shape, form, round off, round down, round out, round, suspend, sober, reconstruct, increase, ease up, ease off, let up, assimilate, dissimilate, commute, exchange, vitalize, vitalise, unclutter, clear, activate, aerate, inactivate, deactivate, deaden, blunt, remodel, redo, edit, redact, cut, edit out, tame, chasten, subdue, moderate, temper, better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate, worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, wet, dry, dry out, lubricate, strengthen, beef up, fortify, spike, lace, weaken, oxidize, oxidise, oxidate, unite, unify, merge, age, ripen, mature, antique, antiquate, develop, make grow, soften, damage, ossify, acerbate, stabilize, stabilise, destabilize, destabilise, sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise, desensitize, desensitise, habituate, accustom, disorder, disarray, discolor, color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in, stain, hue, uglify, untune, adjust, set, correct, disqualify, unfit, domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, widen, dehydrogenate, hydrogenate, oxygenize, oxygenise, darken, brighten, lighten up, lighten, blur, blear, obscure, bedim, overcloud, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide, cook, slenderize, slenderise, crack, dissolve, dismiss, end, terminate, demist, defog, condense, concentrate, contract, cool, chill, cool down, heat, heat up, warm, boil, freeze, blister, switch, change over, shift, transform, transmute, transubstantiate, ash, translate, reform, regenerate, rectify, Islamize, Islamise, turn back, invert, reverse, customize, customise, personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise, depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify, sharpen, flatten, drop, disintegrate, magnetize, magnetise, demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss, simplify, complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate, perplex, supercharge, pressurize, pressurise, centralize, centralise, decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise, socialize, socialise, fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, internationalize, internationalise, communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise, Europeanize, Europeanise, bestialize, bestialise, Americanize, Americanise, Frenchify, civilize, civilise, nationalize, nationalise, denationalize, denationalise, naturalize, naturalise, denaturalize, denaturalise, even, even out, equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate, stiffen, loosen, loose, tighten, fasten, transitivize, transitivise, detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise, thicken, inspissate, full, diversify, decelerate, slow down, accelerate, speed, speed up, check, retard, delay, decrease, lessen, minify, liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise, solvate, validate, invalidate, void, vitiate, empty, fill, fill up, make full, saturate, clot, coagulate, louden, normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise, morph, neutralize, neutralise, commercialize, commercialise, market, purify, purge, sanctify, mechanize, mechanise, automatize, automatise, automate, harmonize, harmonise, chord, polarize, polarise, glorify, contaminate, devalue, insulate, calcify, urbanize, urbanise, emulsify, demulsify, decarboxylate, nazify, clarify, embrittle, mark, nick, disable, disenable, incapacitate, enable, de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress, tender, tenderize, tenderise, charge, bubble, sweeten, iodinate, ionate, archaize, archaise, inform, officialize, officialise, occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise, orientalize, orientalise, acetylate, acetylize, acetylise, achromatize, achromatise, parallel, collimate, camp, classicize, classicise, conventionalize, conventionalise, decimalize, decimalise, dizzy, poison, envenom, exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise, introvert, laicize, laicise, politicize, politicise, radicalize, proof, romanticize, romanticise, rusticate, sauce, shallow, shoal, tense, steepen, scramble, unscramble, unsex, vitrify, pall, saponify, extend, expand, set aside, muddy, lift, raise, elevate, harshen, dinge, demonize, demonise, devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise, etherealize, etherialise, immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise, animize, animise, animate, dynamize, dynamise, rarefy, sublimate, subtilize, volatilize, volatilise, uniformize, uniformise, symmetrize, symmetrise, immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise, denature, sanitize, sanitise, verbify, sputter, draw, dope, prostrate, excite, energize, energise, shake, outmode, spice, spice up, shorten, think, deflate, inflate, reflate, digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise, gelatinize, gelatinise, recombine, feminize, feminise, effeminize, effeminise, womanize, masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise, disharmonize, dissonate, sexualize, sexualise, schematize, schematise, patent, constitutionalize, constitutionalise, rationalize, rationalise, plasticize, plasticise, paganize, paganise, incandesce, deaminate, deaminize, angulate, circularize, depolarize, depolarise, intensify, isomerize, isomerise, legitimate, evaporate, vaporise, industrialize, industrialise, opacify, opsonize, militarize, militarise, recommend, sentimentalize, sentimentalise, solemnize, solemnise, territorialize, territorialise, transaminate, transfigure, spiritualize, unsanctify, vesiculate, visualize, visualise, variegate, ventilate, vivify, vulgarise, vulgarize, supple, professionalize, professionalise, smut, still, weaponize, eroticize, sex up, piggyback, port, lifehack, cloud, confuse, obnubilate, tone down, obfuscate, synchronize, synchronise, mince, break down, crush, fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up, disturb, dull, untie, undo, barb, string, straighten, straighten out, mix, mingle, commix, amalgamate, put, clean, make clean, dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire, lower, depress, deform, break, break up, alter, decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify, humanize, humanise, humble, estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect, right, deodorize, deodorise, deodourise, blind, change intensity, change taste, substitute, replace, capture, lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, restore, reinstate, reestablish, liberalize, liberalise, compensate, redress, democratize, democratise, corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, deprave, misdirect, relax, flocculate, turn, cohere
verb
exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: exchange, commute, convert
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: replace
Narrower terms: rectify, utilize, capitalize, capitalise, launder, break
verb
remove or replace the coverings of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: replace
verb
change clothes; put on different clothes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dress, get dressed
verb
lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: switch, shift
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: transition, shift, break, surf, channel-surf, leap, jump, diphthongize, diphthongise, cut
verb
become deeper in tone
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: deepen
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change
verb
change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: transfer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
verb
give to, and receive from, one another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: exchange, interchange
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: transfer
Narrower terms: sell, cash, cash in, ransom, redeem, substitute, sub, stand in, fill in, trade, swap, swop, switch, barter, trade in
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kh2em-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh2embos Proto-Celtic *kambosder. Gaulish cambionbor. Latin cambium Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin cambiō Late Latin cambiāreder. Old French changierder. Anglo-Norman chaungerbor. Middle English chaungen English change From Middle English changen, chaungen, from Old French changier, from Late Latin cambiāre, from Latin cambīre (“to exchange, barter”), derived from the noun cambium (“change”) (whence was loaned the English doublet cambium), from Gaulish cambion, earlier *kambyom (“change”), related to Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh2(e)mbos, *(s)kh2(e)mbos (“crooked”). More at skimp, scam; see also Proto-Indo-European *kh2em-. Cognate with Italian cambiare, Portuguese cambiar, Romanian schimba, Sicilian canciari, Spanish cambiar. Used in English since the 13th century. Displaced Middle English wenden, from wendan (“to turn, change”) (whence wend). The noun is from Middle English change, chaunge, from Old French change, from the verb changier. See also exchange. Possibly related from the same source is Old English gombe.
Across languages
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