change
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Definitions ofchange
- The process of becoming different.
Example: "The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it."
- Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
Example: "Can I get change for this $100 bill please?"
- A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes
- Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
Example: "A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change."
- Usually coins (as opposed to paper money), but sometimes inclusive of paper money
Example: "Do you have any change on you? I need to make a phone call."
- A transfer between vehicles.
Example: "The train journey from Bristol to Nottingham includes a change at Birmingham."
- A change-up pitch.
- (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
- A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
- A public house; an alehouse.
- To become something different.
Example: "The tadpole changed into a frog. Stock prices are constantly changing."
- To make something into something else.
Example: "The fairy changed the frog into a prince. I had to change the wording of the ad so it would fit."
- To replace.
Example: "Ask the janitor to come and change the lightbulb. After a brisk walk, I washed up and changed my shirt."
- To replace one's clothing.
Example: "You can't go into the dressing room while she's changing. The clowns changed into their costumes before the circus started."
- To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it).
Example: "It's your turn to change the baby."
- To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
- To exchange.
- To change hand while riding (a horse).
Example: "to change a horse"
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