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changenoun the act, process, or result of making differentthe positive change in our students' attitude toward people who are somehow different was a long and gradual process alteration, difference, modification, redoing, refashioning, remaking, remodeling, revamping, review, revise, revision, reworking, variation amendment, correction, rectification, reformconversion, deformation, distortion, metamorphosis, mutation, transfiguration, transformationfluctuation, oscillation, shiftdisplacement, replacement, substitutionadjustment, modulation, regulation, tweakredesign, redo fixation, stabilization the frequent and usually sudden passing from one condition to anotherthere is nothing so constant as change itself something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of paymentshe spent quite a chunk of change on that car bread(slang), bucks, cabbage(slang), cash, chips, coin, currency, dough, gold, green, jack(slang), kale(slang), legal tender, lolly(British), long green(slang), loot, lucre, money, moola(or moolah, slang), needful, pelf, scratch(slang), shekels(also sheqels or shekelim or shekalim or sheqalim), tender, wampum coinage, speciedead presidents(slang), folding money, paper money, scripbanknote, cashier's check, check, draft, money order, note, promissory notebill, dollar, greenbackbankroll, capital, finances, funds, roll(slang), wad, walletchump change, dibs(slang), dime, mite, peanuts, pittance, shoestringbig bucks, bomb(British), boodle, bundle, earth, fortune, king's ransom, megabucks, mint, packet(chiefly British), pile, potabundance, means, opulence, riches, treasure, wealthresources, wherewithalmad money, petty cash, pin money, pocket money, spending money changeverbto make different in some waymy wife has changed the look of our living room more times than we care to remember alter, make over, modify, recast, redo, refashion, remake, remodel, revamp, revise, rework, vary deform, metamorphose, mutateregenerate, revolutionize, transfigure, transform, transmutecommute, convert, exchangerejigger, retool fix, freeze, set, stabilize to pass from one form, state, or level to anotherthe weather in New England is constantly changing fluctuate, mutate, shift, snap, vary metamorphose, morph, transmutebetter, improvedeteriorate, worsenturn aroundseesaw, teeter, vacillate, waver plateau, stabilize to give up (something) and take something else in returnwould you mind changing your seat so my friends can sit together? commute, exchange, shift, substitute, swap, switch, trade interchangedisplace, replace, supersedecede, hand over, surrender, yieldreciprocate v.change, alter, vary, modify mean to make or become different.change implies making either an essential difference often amounting to a loss of original identity or a substitution of one thing for another.changed the shirt for a larger size alter implies a difference in some particular respect without suggesting loss of identity.slightly altered the original design vary stresses a breaking away from sameness, duplication, or exact repetition.vary your daily routine modify suggests a difference that limits, restricts, or adapts to a new purpose.modified the building for use by the disabled in the 13th century |