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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)
- (intransitive) To become something different.
- (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
- (transitive) To replace.
- (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
- (transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it).
- (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
- (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.
- 1610, The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
- (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)
- (countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.
- (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
- (countable) A replacement.
- (uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
- (uncountable) Usually coins (as opposed to paper money), but sometimes inclusive of paper money
- (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
- (baseball) A change-up pitch.
- (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.
- 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech
- (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
- (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.
- 1727-1728, Edward Burt, Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London
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)
- exchange
Derived terms
- bureau de change
- gagner au change
- lettre de change
Verb
change
- first-person singular present indicative of changer
- third-person singular present indicative of changer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of changer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of changer
- 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)
- (Jersey) change
- (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)
- change (difference between one state and another)
- exchange
Descendants
- ? Middle English: change
- English: change
- French: change
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truck
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??k/, IPA(key): /t????k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Etymology 1
Perhaps a shortening of truckle, related to Latin trochus (“iron hoop, wheel”) from Ancient Greek ?????? (trokhós).
Noun
truck (countable and uncountable, plural trucks)
- A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
- 1843, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte, Chapter 3
- “Put that cannon up once, and I'll answer for it that no Injin faces it. 'Twill be as good as a dozen sentinels,” answered Joel. “As for mountin’, I thought of that before I said a syllable about the crittur. There's the new truck-wheels in the court, all ready to hold it, and the carpenters can put the hinder part to the whull, in an hour or two.”
- 1843, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte, Chapter 3
- The ball on top of a flagpole.
- (nautical) On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 9.
- But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Is not the main-truck higher than the kelson is low?
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 9.
- (countable, uncountable, US, Australia) A semi-tractor ("semi") trailer; (Britain) a lorry.
- Mexican open-bed trucks haul most of the fresh produce that comes into the United States from Mexico.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbit, Chapter 1
- A line of fifty trucks from the Zenith Steel and Machinery Company was attacked by strikers-rushing out from the sidewalk, pulling drivers from the seats, smashing carburetors and commutators, while telephone girls cheered from the walk, and small boys heaved bricks.
- Any motor vehicle designed for carrying cargo, including delivery vans, pickups, and other motorized vehicles (including passenger autos) fitted with a bed designed to carry goods.
- A garden cart, a two-wheeled wheelbarrow.
- A small wagon or cart, of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, as with those in hotels for moving luggage, or in libraries for transporting books.
- A pantechnicon (removal van).
- (Britain, rail transport) A flatbed railway car; a flatcar.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 15
- Far away he could hear the sharp clinking of the trucks on the railway.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 77, [2]
- Then she went off with Nawnim, past the three coaches provided for superior passengers, to the trucks at the front, where the crowd was entirely black.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 15
- (US, rail transport) A pivoting frame, one attached to the bottom of the bed of a railway car at each end, that rests on the axle and which swivels to allow the axle (at each end of which is a solid wheel) to turn with curves in the track; a bogie.
- The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
- (theater) A platform with wheels or casters.
- Dirt or other messiness.
- 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter I
- “Nothing! Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What is that truck?”
- 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter I
Synonyms
- (motor vehicle for goods transport): rig, tractor trailer, lorry (UK), hauler
Hypernyms
- (motor vehicle for goods transport): vehicle
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
See also
- (nautical, sailing) main-truck, crow's nest
- (military) gun-carriage
- (semi-tractor): semi, trailer truck, rig, monster truck
Verb
truck (third-person singular simple present trucks, present participle trucking, simple past and past participle trucked)
- (intransitive) To drive a truck.
- My father has been trucking for 20 years.
- (transitive) To convey by truck.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To travel or live contentedly. [1960s]
- (intransitive, US, Canada, slang) To persist, to endure. [from 1960s]
- (intransitive, film production) To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
- (transitive, slang) To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
- 1993, Sue Grafton, "J" Is for Judgment
- Both deputies were big, made of dense flesh and tough experience. . . . I wouldn't have wanted to truck with either one of them.
- 1993, Sue Grafton, "J" Is for Judgment
- (transitive, slang) To run over or through a tackler in American football.
Derived terms
- trucker
- trucking
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English truken, troken, trukien, from Old English trucian (“to fail, run short, deceive, disappoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *trukijan (“to fail, miss, lack”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew-, *derwu- (“to tear, wrap, reap”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split”). Cognate with Middle Low German troggelen (“to cheat, deceive, swindle”), Dutch troggelen (“to extort”), German dialectal truggeln (“to flatter, fawn”).
Alternative forms
- trock
Verb
truck (third-person singular simple present trucks, present participle trucking, simple past and past participle trucked)
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To deceive; cheat; defraud.
Derived terms
- trucker
- trucking
- truckle
- trucky
Related terms
- atroke
- troke
Etymology 3
From dialectal truck, truk, trokk, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Norwegian dialectal trokka, trakka (“to stamp, trample, go to and fro”), Danish trykke (“to press, press down, crush, squeeze”), Swedish trycka. More at thrutch.
Verb
truck (third-person singular simple present trucks, present participle trucking, simple past and past participle trucked)
- (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
Etymology 4
From Middle English trukien, from unrecorded Anglo-Norman and Old French words (attested in Medieval Latin trocare, Spanish trocar), of unknown origin.
Verb
truck (third-person singular simple present trucks, present participle trucking, simple past and past participle trucked)
- (transitive) To trade, exchange; barter.
- We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another.
- (intransitive) To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
- (intransitive) To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
Translations
Noun
truck (plural trucks)
- (obsolete, often in the plural) Small, humble items; things, often for sale or barter.
- (historical) The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].
- (US, often attributive) Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
- (usually with negative) Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
Usage notes
For this etymology, the word is virtually obsolete. It really only survives as a fossil in the construction to have no truck with. In the US, the derived term truck garden is often confused with "produce raised to be trucked (transported) to market".
Derived terms
- have no truck with
- truck garden
Dutch
Etymology
From English truck
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tryk/, /tr?k/
- Hyphenation: truck
Noun
truck m (plural trucks, diminutive truckje n)
- truck, lorry
Derived terms
- truckbestuurder
- trucker
French
Etymology
From English truck.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??k/
Noun
truck m (plural trucks)
- (Canada, Louisiana) truck
Swedish
Etymology
From English truck.
Noun
truck c
- forklift
Declension
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