change
IPA: tʃˈeɪndʒ
noun
- (countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.
- (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
- (countable) A replacement.
- (uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
- (uncountable) An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.
- (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
- (baseball) A change-up pitch.
- (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
- (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.
verb
- (intransitive) To become something different.
- (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
- (transitive) To replace.
- (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
- (transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it).
- (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
- (archaic) To exchange.
- (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
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Examples of "change" in Sentences
- The change made by the anon is factually correct.
- Change the scale, and you change the tonal space.
- The corrective action was a change to the dampers.
- As the context changes, the meaning of the wink changes.
- The rhythmic change is due to the changing of the meter.
- Change for the sake of change is illogical and counterproductive.
- They transfer to his class and work to change the ethos of the school.
- It presupposes the 'viewpoint' of the proponents of change are correct.
- Changing the units fundamentally changed the usefulness of the section.
- In other words, all changes afterwards will be to the untainted version.