different between change vs traffic

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

Alternative forms

• traffick

Etymology

From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *tr?nsfr?c?re (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic ????????? (tafr?q, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?f'?k, IPA^(key): /?t?æf?k/
• Rhymes: -æf?k

Noun

traffic (usually uncountable, plural traffics)

1. Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.

2. Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
3. Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
4. Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
   1. In CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
   2. (advertising) The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc. in a publication.
      • 1950, Advertising & Selling (volume 43, part 2, page 53)

        Those fixed locations which are sold to advertisers become preferred according to the expected page traffic.

5. Commodities of the market.

   • You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

traffic (third-person singular simple present traffics, present participle trafficking, simple past and past participle trafficked)

1. (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods

   Synonym: trade

2. (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
3. (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

Derived terms

• trafficker
• trafficking

Translations

References

• traffic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.