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change

English

Etymology

From Middle English changen, chaungen, from Old French changier, from Late Latin cambi?re, from Latin camb?re, present active infinitive of cambi? (exchange, barter), from Gaulish cambion, *kambyom (change), from Proto-Celtic *kambos (twisted, crooked), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)?ambos, *(s)kambos (crooked).

Cognate with Italian cambiare, Portuguese cambiar, Romanian schimba, Spanish cambiar. Used in English since the 13th century. Displaced native Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan (to turn, change) (whence English 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.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ch?nj, IPA(key): /t?e?nd?/
  • Rhymes: -e?nd?

Verb

change (third-person singular simple present changes, present participle changing, simple past and past participle changed)

  1. (intransitive) To become something different.
  2. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
  3. (transitive) To replace.
  4. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  5. (transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it).
  6. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
  7. (archaic) To exchange.
    • 1610, The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
      At the first sight / they have changed eyes. (exchanged looks)
    • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
      I would give any thing to change a word or two with this person.
  8. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
    to change a horse

Synonyms

  • (to make something different): alter, modify, make another
  • (to make something into something different): transform

Derived terms

Related terms

  • exchange

Translations

Noun

change (countable and uncountable, plural changes)

  1. (countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.
  2. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  3. (countable) A replacement.
  4. (uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
  5. (uncountable) Usually coins (as opposed to paper money), but sometimes inclusive of paper money
  6. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  7. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  8. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
    • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
      Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.
  9. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  10. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.
    • 1727-1728, Edward Burt, Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London
      They call an alehouse a change.

Usage notes

  • Adjectives often applied to "change": big, small, major, minor, dramatic, drastic, rapid, slow, gradual, radical, evolutionary, revolutionary, abrupt, sudden, unexpected, incremental, social, economic, organizational, technological, personal, cultural, political, technical, environmental, institutional, educational, genetic, physical, chemical, industrial, geological, global, local, good, bad, positive, negative, significant, important, structural, strategic, tactical.

Synonyms

  • (the process of becoming different): transition, transformation

Related terms

  • (transfer): interchange
  • exact change

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • modification
  • mutation
  • evolution
  • reorganization

References

  • John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “change”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

French

Etymology

Deverbal from changer (corresponding to Old French change). Compare Medieval and Late Latin cambium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /????/

Noun

change m (plural changes)

  1. exchange

Derived terms

  • bureau de change
  • gagner au change
  • lettre de change

Verb

change

  1. first-person singular present indicative of changer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of changer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of changer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of changer
  5. second-person singular imperative of changer

Related terms

  • changer
  • changeur

Further reading

  • “change” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Alternative forms

  • chànge (Guernsey)

Etymology

Borrowed from French change and English change.

Noun

change m (plural changes)

  1. (Jersey) change
  2. (Jersey, money) exchange rate

Old French

Alternative forms

  • cange (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

Deverbal of changier.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?t??an.d???/

Noun

change m (oblique plural changes, nominative singular changes, nominative plural change)

  1. change (difference between one state and another)
  2. exchange

Descendants

  • ? Middle English: change
    • English: change
  • French: change

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bellying

English

Verb

bellying

  1. present participle of belly

Adjective

bellying (not comparable)

  1. Bulging or billowing.
    • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 9,[1]
      Did it change into the cry of the wind, plaintive at first, angrily shrill as it freshened, rising to a tearing whistle, sinking to a musical trickle of air from the leech of the bellying sail?
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Chapter 12,[2]
      And the light mounts over the faces of all the tall blind houses, slides through a chink and paints the lustrous bellying crimson curtains []
    • 1925, Hugh Walpole, Portrait of a Man with Red Hair, Part I, Chapter 6,[3]
      He looked at the stout bellying occupant of the other chair, his mouth open, his snores reverberant.
    • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Chapter 17,
      As he swept out of the room with a bellying sweep of his gown and a toss of his silver hair, his old heart was beating madly.

Noun

bellying (plural bellyings)

  1. A bulging, swelling or billowing shape; the act or state of bulging, swelling or billowing.
    • 1693, Simon de la Loubère, A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam, translated by A.P., London: Tho. Horne, Part II, Chapter II. Of the Houses of the Siamese, and of their Architecture in Publick Buildings, page 32,[4]
      But the Principal Ornament of the Pagodes, is to be accompanied, as generally they are, with several Pyramids of Lime and Brick [] Some there are which diminish and grow thick again four or five times in their heighth, so that the Profile of them goes waving: But these Bellyings out are smaller as they are in a higher part of the Pyramid.
    • 1873, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Sunset,” Diary entry dated 3 November, 1873, in The Dublin Review, July, August, September, 1920, p. 64,[5]
      A few minutes later the brightness over; one great dull rope coiling overhead sidelong from the sunset, its dewlaps and bellyings painted with a maddery campion-colour that seemed to stoop and drop like sopped cake;
    • 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter 15,[6]
      One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering heavenward, turning the twilight to a palpable darkness []
    • 1926, Violet Hunt, The Flurried Years, London: Hurst & Blackett, “1910-11,” p. 161,[7]
      The room into which I was ushered, with its leering volutes and hideous bellyings of brown mahogany, intimately reminded me of a Beardsley drawing.

Synonyms

  • bulge
  • convexity
  • gibbosity
  • protrusion
  • protuberance

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