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Definition: Change |
ChangeNoun1. An event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another: "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse". 2. A relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event: "he attributed the change to their marriage". 3. The action of changing something; "the change of government had no impact on the economy"; "his change on abortion cost him the election". 4. The result of alteration or modification; "there were marked changes in the lining of the lungs"; "there had been no change in the mountains". 5. The balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due; "I paid with a twenty and pocketed the change". 6. A thing that is different; "he inspected several changes before selecting one". 7. A different or fresh set of clothes; "she brought a change in her overnight bag". 8. Coins of small denomination regarded collectively; "he had a pocketful of change". 9. Money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency; "he got change for a twenty and used it to pay the taxi driver". 10. : a difference that is usually pleasant; "he goes to France for variety"; "it is a refreshing change to meet a woman mechanic". Verb1. Undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night". 2. Cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue". 3. Make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season". 4. Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes". 5. Change clothes; put on different clothes; "Change before you go to the opera". 6. Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?" "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares". 7. Give to, and receive from, one another; "Would you change places with me?" "We have been exchanging letters for a year". 8. Change from one vehicle or transportation line to another; "She changed in Chicago on her way to the East coast". 9. Become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password". 10. : remove or replace the coverings of; "Father had to learn how to change the baby"; "After each guest we changed the bed linens". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "change" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | Coins, esp. of low denominations. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | Money returned from the seller to the buyer when the buyer gives a sum of money greater than the purchase price. The change is the difference between the selling price plus taxes, fees or other charges, and the greater amount of money tendered by the buyer. (references) |
Literature | Change Ringing the changes. Repeating the same thing in different ways. The allusion is to bell-ringing. To know how many changes can be rung on a peal of bells, multiply the known preceding number by the next subsequent one, thus: 1 bell no change; 2 bells, 1 X 2 = 2 changes; 3 bells, 2 X 3 = 6 changes; 4 bells, 6 X 4 = 24 changes; 5 bells, 24 X 5 = 120 changes; 6 bells, 720 changes, etc. Take your change out of that. Said to a person who insults you when you give him a quid pro quo, and tell him to take out the change. It is an allusion to shopping transactions, where you settle the price of the article, and put the surplus or change in your pocket. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Meteorology & Standards | A. general disagreement of the observed state of a characteristic at a certain time with the observed state of this characteristic at a previous time b. for measurable characteristics difference between the observed value of a characteristic at a certain time and the observed value of this characteristic at a previous time. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Change, the quality of impermanence and flux, has had a chequered history as a concept. In ancient Greek philosophy, while Heraclitus saw change as ever-present and all-encompassing, Parmenides virtually denied its existence.Ovid produced a classic thematic handling of change as metamorphosis in his Metamorphoses.
Ptolemaic astronomy envisioned a largely static universe, with erratic change confined to less worthy spheres.
Medieval thought fostered great respect for authority and revelation, severely cramping any encouragement of change.
Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz harnessed mathematical concepts into calculus to provide mathematical models of change. This constituted a major step forward in understanding flux and variation.
With the rise of industrialisation and capitalism, the importance attached to innovation grew, and social and political upheavals and pressures often forced change by violent revolution (as in North America in the late 18th century and in later imitators). By the late 20th century much business and New Age thought focussed enthusiastically on transformation in management, in function and in mental attitudes, while ignoring or deploring changes in society or in geopolitics. And Madison Avenue receives payment to repeat the litany of the fad for change: In the fast-changing world of today, you need ... productX.
Cultural attitudes to change itself may fall into one of at least two categories:
Change may require organisms and organizations to adapt., see evolution.
- the view that change is random, lacking determinism or teleology.
- the view that change is cyclical, whereby one expects circumstances to recur. This concept, often seen as related to Eastern world views such as Hinduism or Buddhism, nevertheless had great popularity in Europe in the Middle ages, and often appears in depictions of the wheel of fortune.
Compare identity and change, globalisation.
Depending on context, the term 'change' may in particular refer to:
Change is also the name of a commune in the Côte-d'Or département in France.
- clothing
- money
- public transport vehicle
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Change."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CHCP | English | CHange Code Page | Computer - (DOS) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ChangeSynonyms: alteration (n), modification (n), variety (n), alter (v), commute (v), convert (v), deepen (v), exchange (v), interchange (v), shift (v), switch (v), transfer (v), vary (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: 'change (meteorology & standards, engineering & technology). |
| Antonym: stay (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Irresolution | Vacillate; change; retract; fluctuate; pendulate; alternate; (oscillate); keep off and on, play fast and loose; blow hot and cold; (caprice). |
Mart | Noun: mart; market, marketplace; fair, bazaar, staple, exchange, change, bourse, hall, guildhall; tollbooth, customhouse; Tattersall's. |
Money | Petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit, stiver, rap, mite, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat, guinea; rouleau; wampum; good sum, round sum, lump sum; power of money, plum, lac of rupees. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Those cries can change the course of a life (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) Seasons change, winter to spring (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) I'm practically on the wagon, that's quite a change. (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht) Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) Things change. (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters) | |
Lyrics | If I could change the way I live my life today (Change; performing artist: Lisa Stansfield) It took so long to change my mind (Caught Up in You; performing artist: 38 Special) In a world torn by change (I Do (Cherish You); performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Keith Stegall and Dan Hill) Ain't nothin' gonna change (Fly Away From Here; performing artist: Aerosmith) Friday night he pulled a gun to change the channel (Birmingham; performing artist: Amanda Marshall) | |
Clever | There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. (references; author: unknown) Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. (references; author: unknown) We don't change the message, the message changes us. (references; author: unknown) When we learn all the answers, they change the questions. (references; author: unknown) If voting could really change things, it would be illegal. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nothings Going to Change My World (1973) A Change in the Wind (1971) The Challenge of Change (1969) Change of Habit (1969) I Change I Am the Same (1969) | |
Song Titles | Change (performing artist: Flipp) NOTHING'S GONNA CHANGE MY LOVE FOR YOU (performing artist: Glenn Mederios ) Change The Game (performing artist: Jay-Z) Change (performing artist: Lisa Stansfield) Cool Change (performing artist: Little River Band) | |
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Pictured is a Japanese-American family. There is a mother, father and a pre-school boy. They are seated in an outdoor restaurant and are eating hamburgers and drinking milk. Because Japanese-Americans tend to marry among themselves, factors other than genetic must be examined for cancer incidence. Diet and other lifestyle variations are being studied. Japanese who emigrate to California and change their lifestyles, seem to have an increased incidence of colon cancer. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | Seen is a normal mole, with no change in size. Usually less than 6mm. Part of the ABCDs for detection of melanoma. See artwork: WYNTK-15b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ||
![]() | "Dodecahedron" by Владимир Смирнов (Vladimir Smirnov). Use DPGraph's scrollbar to vary the parameter A to change the dodecahedron into a cube or a rhombohedron. | In a change of venue from peering at the distant universe, the Hubble telescope has taken a ... Credit: NASA. | |
![]() | An abrupt change in water characteristics at the point where glacial melt-water meets oceanic water. In Saginaw Channel. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | The sign at the Mauna Loa Observatory - Geophysical Monitoring for Climatic Change. The Mauna Loa Observatory is at 3400 meters elevation, over 2 statute miles high. Here, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been measured for many years. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
![]() | Spring Creek and Boulder Creek meet, note the change in riparian vegetation. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Looking up Spring Creek just above Boulder Creek input. Note the change in the riparian vegetation. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | Aquanauts change out tanks near the Aquarius undersea laboratory. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). | ![]() | Scuba divers change out a current meter used to monitor currents in the Bahamas. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
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| "CHANGE YOUR LIFE" by Piotr P Commentary: "Berlin Wall fragment. In front of Imperial War Musem. London. ." | "Climate change 2" by Lorena Molinari Commentary: "Tropical storm in milan." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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| Inserting change into a soda machine; soda can dropping to the receiving tray. | Coin change slowly dropped onto a hard surface. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Agathon | Even God cannot change the past. |
Benjamin Disraeli | Change is inevitable. Change is constant. |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld | Taste may change, but inclination never. |
Henry David Thoreau | Things do not change, we do. |
John Milton | Fear of change perplexes monarchs. |
Lothair | The times change and we change with them. |
Ludwig Boerne | Nought endures but change. |
Ovid | Habits change into character. |
Victor Hugo | Popularity? It's glory's small change. |
William Harrison | Times change, and we change with them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | They will wish, and seek for the opportunity, which in the change, weakness and accidents of human affairs, seldom delays long to offer itself. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | If the legislature should change that rule, and declare one witness, or a confession out of court, sufficient for conviction, must the constitutional principle yield to the legislative act? (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | All property relations in the past have continually been subject to historical change consequent upon the change in historical conditions. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The inhabitants of territories separated from Germany by virtue of the present Treaty shall, notwithstanding this separation and the change of nationality consequent thereon, continue to enjoy in Germany all the rights in industrial, literary and artistic property to which they were entitled under German legislation at the time of the separation. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
United Nations | 1948 | No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom-- symbolizing an end as well as a beginning--signifying renewal as well as change. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | It was a sad change. |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | What they were I could not at all make out, but some mysterious change seemed instantly to pass over us. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The inexorable finger underwent no change. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Nothing is too small or too trifling to undergo this change, and acquire dignity thereby |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This very slight change had worked a revolution |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | After supper in the studyhall he would change the number pasted up inside his desk from seventyseven to seventysix |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | But if these censurers were better acquainted with the noble and courteous disposition of the Houyhnhnms, they would soon change their opinion |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | This certainly suggests what change is to be made |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The drugs literally change their brains. (references) | |
Some drugs may also change your appearance. (references) | ||
Change soiled underwear as soon as possible. (references) | ||
Business | This is scheduled to change. (references) | |
No license is required to change money. (references) | ||
Several moves have signaled this change. (references) | ||
Children | El Salvador | The difference reflects a change in reporting criteria. (references) |
Switzerland | Claiming that the financial consequences of the proposed change in law would have a negative impact on the economy, the Federal Council submitted an alternative draft law to Parliament in October. (references) | |
South Africa | According to Human Rights Watch, girls who experience sexual violence often leave school temporarily, change schools, or quit attending school to escape continuing abuse; those who remain in school have difficulty completing their studies. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Philippines | Citizens enjoy the freedom to change their places of residence and employment. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | The change corresponds with improving relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran. (references) | |
Afghanistan | The requirement to wear the burqa represented a significant change in practice. (references) | |
Economic History | Azerbaijan | These may change from year to year. (references) |
Bahamas | These policies are unlikely to change. (references) | |
China | Distribution rights may change after WTO accession. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tunisia | A similar change in oversight of the parole system took place in July. (references) |
Yemen | The committee viewed as its highest priority education as a means to effect cultural change. (references) | |
Turkey | Groups linked to terrorist organizations also strongly protested this change in the prison system. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Sweden | Sami leaders continued to protest this change during the year. (references) |
Venezuela | The groups had charged that only the legislature may alter the nature of the reserve; that the public review process prior to the change was inadequate; and that expanded mining activities would affect adversely the health of the Warao, Arawako, Karina, Akawaio, and Pemon indigenous communities that inhabit the Imataca watershed area. (references) | |
Minorities | Cyprus | Both Greek Cypriots and Maronites living in the north are unable to change their place of residence at will. (references) |
Political Economy | MALAYSIA | Malaysia did not change the tariff levels after the 1996 review. (references) |
Gabon | The ability of citizens to change their government remained limited. (references) | |
Turkmenistan | Citizens did not have the ability to change their government peacefully. (references) | |
Political Rights | Qatar | The Council does not have the authority to change policy. (references) |
Fiji | With these events, citizens lost the right to change their government peacefully. (references) | |
Burundi | Change their Government Citizens do not have the right to change their government. (references) | |
Trade | Bahamas | All tariff rates are subject to change. (references) |
Ireland | Adapters are available to change from one type plug to another. (references) | |
Finland | In the last few years, the Finnish banking system has undergone rapid change. (references) | |
Travel | Sri Lanka | Dates change from year to year. (references) |
Kazakhstan | Note: visa fees change often and with little notice. (references) | |
Taiwan | It is, however, relatively common to leave the change when a bill is paid. (references) | |
Women | Malaysia | While the change allows some foreign men to acquire permanent residence, the new regulations would not apply to foreign laborers who marry female citizens. (references) |
Swaziland | Since uncodified law and custom govern traditional marriage, women's rights often are unclear and change according to where and by whom they are interpreted. (references) | |
Ecuador | The Ecuadorian Women's Permanent National Forum includes more than 320 women's organizations and promotes social, economic, and cultural change through various methods, including increasing political participation by women. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Mauritania | The CLTM is associated with the Action for Change (AC) opposition party. (references) |
Dominican Republic | These private stores make change by giving back a combination of tickets and cash. (references) | |
Chile | This is expected to change now that the Labor Directorate may become a party to these cases. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children. The fairies are now believed by naturalist to be extinct, though a clergyman of the Church of England saw three near Colchester as lately as 1855, while passing through a park after dining with the lord of the manor. The sight greatly staggered him, and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent. In the year 1807 a troop of fairies visited a wood near Aix and carried off the daughter of a peasant, who had been seen to enter it with a bundle of clothing. The son of a wealthy bourgeois disappeared about the same time, but afterward returned. He had seen the abduction been in pursuit of the fairies. Justinian Gaux, a writer of the fourteenth century, avers that so great is the fairies' power of transformation that he saw one change itself into two opposing armies and fight a battle with great slaughter, and that the next day, after it had resumed its original shape and gone away, there were seven hundred bodies of the slain which the villagers had to bury. He does not say if any of the wounded recovered. In the time of Henry III, of England, a law was made which prescribed the death penalty for "Kyllynge, wowndynge, or mamynge" a fairy, and it was universally respected. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Woodward | I don't know. I really haven't tried to report that out. Some people say there is not going to be a whole lot of new information. I suspect that's correct. But again, those things change. |
Dennis Miller | It's time to change our way of thinking and take the war on drugs out of the political hot button campaign topics. |
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres | I'm not sure. Maybe a change in Iraq can facilitate a better solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It's not so clear that there is a simple answer. |
Jerry Lewis | We don't need a wind screen on that God-damn mic. We're going to change that to that, and then we click it here, and we're as good as new. And that's for later. |
Lynne Cheney | You know, I mostly don't think about it. And I think I take my instruction from Dick on that. You know how you handle it. You worry about what you can change, you know. And I am a bit of a nag sometimes. |
Priscilla Presley | That was a way of life. I didn't know anything from then on after that. I didn't look at it that way. That was how he, you know, he got around and he had his entourage. It was just his way of life. I had to accept that. I certainly couldn't change it. |
Rush Limbaugh | If you want to try to change government, you're an evil special interest! |
Senator Carl Levin | Well, I think Saddam would do anything to change the subject, basically. He'll delay, he'll slow-walk. So it's possible he would invite inspectors and then remove them, or find some excuse. Anything's possible with him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | Hitherto, therefore, nothing is discoverable in the conduct of France which ought to change or relax our measures of defense. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | That a change in the relations in which a man is placed should change his ideas of moral right or wrong, is neither new, nor peculiar to the color of the blacks. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Nothing short of a radical change in the action of the Government upon the subject can, in my opinion, remedy the evil. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Such temporary unemployment is probably unavoidable in a period of rapid change. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Thus across all the globe there harshly blow the winds of change. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Abroad, as at home, there is also risk in change. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We're prepared for a positive change in Soviet-American relations. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | As times change, so government must change. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Change" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.82% of the time. "Change" is used about 29,475 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 63.82% | 18,810 | 489 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 30.51% | 8,992 | 1,062 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.54% | 1,633 | 5,096 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.13% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29,475 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "change". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Ashnah | N/A | Biblical | Change |
| Gershon | N/A | Biblical | The change of pilgrimage |
| Jushabhesed | N/A | Biblical | Change of mercy |
| Shen | N/A | Biblical | Change |
| Shunem | N/A | Biblical | Their change |
| Zeredah | N/A | Biblical | Change of dominion |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Change Technology Partners, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "change": a change for the better ♦ a change for the worse ♦ a change of air ♦ a change of clothes ♦ abrupt change in style ♦ abrupt growth change ♦ absence of change ♦ annual Change Traffic ♦ appreciable change ♦ aspect change ♦ big change ♦ bureau de change ♦ can the leopard change it's spots ♦ carry change ♦ change a baby ♦ change a diaper ♦ change again ♦ change busses ♦ change by reversal ♦ change color ♦ change colour ♦ change countenance ♦ change course ♦ change courses ♦ change dispenser ♦ change down ♦ change expression ♦ change for ♦ change for the better ♦ change for the worse ♦ change foreigner ♦ change form ♦ change from ♦ change gear ♦ change group ♦ change hands ♦ change in the collectively agreed rate of pay ♦ change in the modal split ♦ change in the weather ♦ change integrity ♦ change intensity ♦ change into ♦ change into evening dress ♦ change into stone ♦ change jobs ♦ Change key ♦ change machine ♦ change magnitude ♦ change management ♦ change messages ♦ change mind ♦ change minds about smth. ♦ change money ♦ change my mind ♦ change of address ♦ change of air ♦ change of attitude ♦ change of clothing ♦ change of color ♦ change of course ♦ change of direction ♦ change of environment ♦ change of front ♦ change of gauge ♦ change of grade ♦ change of heart ♦ change of integrity ♦ change of life ♦ change of location ♦ change of magnitude ♦ change of mind ♦ change of mood ♦ change of moon ♦ change of operational control ♦ change of opinion ♦ change of position ♦ change of purpose ♦ change of reservation ♦ change of shape ♦ change of slope ♦ change of state ♦ change of the direction ♦ change of the moon ♦ change of the name ♦ change of venue ♦ change off ♦ change one's allegiance ♦ change one's clothes ♦ change one's condition ♦ change one's course ♦ change one's job ♦ change one's mind ♦ change one's note ♦ change one's opinion ♦ change one's place ♦ change one's quarters ♦ change one's shoes ♦ change one's tune ♦ change one's ways ♦ change oneself ♦ change orientation. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "change": change-agent, change-agents, change-around, change-because, change-colonists, change-facilitating, change-gear, change--looking, change-management, change-manager, change-master, change-nightly, change-of-address, change-of-heart, change-of-pace, change-of-pace ball, change-of-state, change-of-subject, change-opportunity, change-orientation, change-out, change-over, change-over, change-over point, change-over switch, change-point, change-points, Change-ringers, change-ringing, change-round, change-shock, change-speed gear, change-up. | |
Ending with "change": attitude-change, sea-change, sex-change, sound-change. | |
Containing "change": all-change-is-for-the-worse, quick-change artist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
change password | 2,531 | organizational change | 201 |
change name | 1,778 | change email address | 195 |
change | 1,520 | change life plus | 194 |
change management | 986 | climate change | 179 |
oil change | 901 | time change | 178 |
change of address | 899 | change screen name | 167 |
accounting change in japan | 851 | change of address card | 163 |
sex change | 691 | change icon | 156 |
career change | 472 | change of address form | 155 |
change a diaper | 357 | identity change | 148 |
behavioural change | 330 | social security name change | 148 |
change my home page | 314 | change e mail address | 144 |
legal name change | 278 | change quote | 144 |
change de taux | 277 | 2000 change chipset hardware window | 144 |
change yahoo password | 242 | change extension | 134 |
change msn password | 233 | managing change | 132 |
oil change coupon | 212 | sex change operation | 126 |
change ip | 211 | change visible | 124 |
change of heart | 208 | 2003 change tax | 122 |
change ip address | 208 | change hotmail password | 121 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "change"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | verander (alter, turn), kleingeld, wissel (interchange, swap, to cash, turn). (various ref |