different between change vs deconvert

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.
5. (uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.

6. (uncountable) Usually coins (as opposed to paper money), but sometimes inclusive of paper money

7. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
8. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
9. (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.

10. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
11. (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

English

Etymology

de- +? convert

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /di??k?nv??t/
• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /di?k?n?v??t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Noun

deconvert (plural deconverts)

1. An apostate.

Verb

deconvert (third-person singular simple present deconverts, present participle deconverting, simple past and past participle deconverted)

1. (intransitive) To undergo a deconversion from a religion, faith or belief or (transitive) to induce (someone) to reject a particular religion, faith, or belief.

   She has deconverted from Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc.

   They tried to deconvert him.

   • 1933, Sinclair Lewis, Ann Vickers, Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., p. 80

     Oh, I'm not going to try to deconvert them. No! Let them keep their faith, if they like it.

   • 1961, Catholic University of America, Herman Joseph Heuser, The American Ecclesiastical Review, Catholic University of America Press, etc., p. 236,

     The very devout and older Catholics are naturally inclined to see in the sudden North American fury to deconvert and decatholicize Hispanic America an enterprise that is not inspired by Christ but by the Devil, some sort of spiritual rape of the Latin republics.

   • 2003, Phil Zuckerman, Invitation to the Sociology of Religion, Routledge (UK), ?ISBN, p. 29,

     The sociologist studying Mormonism is not out there to deconvert people, engage in historical or theological debates, destroy worldviews, or the like.

   • 2005, Anne Schiller, 'Our Heart Always Remembers, We Think of the Words as Long as We Live': Sacred Songs and the Revitalization of Indigenous Religion Among the Indonesian Ngaju, read in Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern (editors), Expressive Genres and Historical Change: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, ?ISBN, p.111,

     Some older adherents of Kaharingan reportedly deconvert from the traditional faith to Christianity for fear that their offspring will not conduct proper mortuary rituals on their behalf when it becomes necessary.

2. (intransitive) To revert or (transitive) to restore.
   • 2000, Linda E. Reksten, Using Technology to Increase Student Learning, Corwin Press, ?ISBN, p. 140,

     Most compression utilities...can convert and deconvert binhex files.

   • 2001, Nuclear Energy Agency, Management of Depleted Uranium: A Joint Report, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, ?ISBN, p. 21,

     Other organisations have investigated similar technologies or are developing alternative technologies to deconvert UF₆ to a stable oxide UF₄ or metal form.

   • 2005, Alexander Gelbukh, LINK (Online service), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 6th International Conference, CICLing 2005, Springer, ?ISBN, p.373,

     To generate the MA corresponding to a UNL graph, generate an “extended instance” of the UNL graph for each possible variant in that language, deconvert these UNL graphs, then continue as with normal translation...

3. (transitive) To change a building that has been converted to a new use back to its original use; specifically to change a house that has been converted into apartments or flats back to a single-family dwelling.
   • 1963, William E Glynn, Leadership Roles read in Paul Vernon Betters (editor), City Problems: The Annual Proceedings of the United States Conference of Mayors, City Problems: The Annual Proceedings of the United States Conference of Mayors, p. 86,

     Roofs were repaired, houses were painted, and rooming houses converted back to single family residences. And meanwhile the owners have spent about $60000 to deconvert the building to its legal use...Orders to deconvert buildings which had been cut up into smaller apartments totaled 156 last year compared with 77 in 1961.

   • 2002, Paul N. Balchin, Maureen Rhoden, Housing Policy: An Introduction, Routledge (UK), ?ISBN, p. 138,

     The supply of furnished accommodation might decline because landlords faced with rent regulation would prefer to occupy the whole of the property themselves, leave it empty or, given a house price boom, deconvert for owner-occupation.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:deconvert.

References

• Problems in deconversion

Anagrams

• converted