change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chānj
ipa: /t͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪndʒ
Forms: form: changes
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it.
text: Cause people often talk about being scared of change / But for me I'm more afraid of things staying the same
ref: 2008, Nick Cave, “Jesus Of The Moon”, in Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
text: Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
ref: 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80:
glosses: The process of becoming different.
examples: text: Can I get change for this $100 bill, please?
glosses: Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
examples: text: a change of clothes
text: After beating champions Chelsea 3-1 on Boxing Day, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger made eight changes to his starting XI in an effort to freshen things up, with games against Birmingham and Manchester City to come in the next seven days.
ref: 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: A replacement.
examples: text: A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change.
glosses: Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
examples: text: Do you have any change on you? I need to make a phone call.
text: This bus ride requires exact change.
glosses: An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.
examples: text: The train journey from Bristol to Nottingham includes a change at Birmingham.
text: It [the Elizabeth Line] will provide a 6tph (trains per hour) service and with a single change at Hayes & Harlington offer services towards Reading.
ref: 2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 72:
glosses: A transfer between vehicles.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A change-up pitch.
examples: text: Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.
ref: 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC:
topics: campanology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
examples: 1727-1728, Edward Burt, Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London
They call an alehouse a change.
glosses: A public house; an alehouse.
Synonyms: sense: the process of becoming different
word: transition
sense: the process of becoming different
word: transformation
word: alteration
word: change
word: deviation
word: modification
word: mutation
word: permutation
word: transfiguration
word: variation
Hyponyms: word: evolution
word: revolution
Derived terms: a change is as good as a rest
and change
baby change
ball change
breaking change
bureau de change
career change
changeability
change agent
change aversion
change bag
change bowler
change key
changeless
change log
changelog
changemaker
changemaking
change management
change of air
change of clothes
change-off
change of heart
change of innings
change of life
change of mind
change of pace
change of scene
change of scenery
change of state
change of tack
change of tune
change of venue
change order
changeout
change parade
changepoint
change purse
change ringing
change-ringing
changeroom
changeset
change-up
change wheel
changiness
charter change
chemical change
chord change
chump change
chump-change
chunk of change
climate change
cool change
costume change
deflection change
fatty change
foldchange
for a change
gear change
Hopey McChange
hour change
keep the change
key change
language change
loose change
megachange
microchange
minimal change disease
multichange
name change
net change
oil change
outerchange
overchange
phase change
physical change
pocket change
put the change on someone
quick-change
quick-change artist
rate of change
rechange
regime change
seachange
sea-change
sea change
seed change
sex change
sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts
sexual orientation change efforts
shortchange
small change
sound change
spange
spanger
spare change
step change
take your change out of that
technological change
the change
time change
treechange
truck driver's gear change
unchange
wind of change
winds of change
Related terms: sense: transfer
word: interchange
word: exact change
word: alteration
word: evolution
word: modification
word: mutation
english: the more things change, the more they stay the same
translation: the more things change, the more they stay the same
word: plus ça change(, plus c'est la même chose)
word: reorganization
word: transformation
word: alter