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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loss of important personnel |
| Synonyms: | departure, mass exodus, turnover |
| Main Entry: | pastry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baked product made with flour |
| Synonyms: | Danish, bread, cake, croissant, dainty, delicacy, doughnut, panettone, patisserie, phyllo, pie, strudel, sweet roll, tart, turnover, éclair |
| Main Entry: | revolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drastic action or change, often in politics |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, bloodshed, cabal, coup, coup d'état, crime, debacle, destruction, disorder, foment, golpe, guerrilla activity, innovation, insubordination, insurgency, metamorphosis, mutiny, outbreak, overthrow, overturn, plot, radical change, rebellion, reformation, reversal, revolt, rising, row, shake-up, shift, strife, strike, subversion, transformation, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnover, underground activity, unrest, upheaval, uprising, uproar, upset, violence |
| Notes: | rebellion is open resistance to a government or authority; revolution is a rebellion that succeeds in overthrowing the government and establishing a new one |
| Antonyms: | stagnation, submission |
| Main Entry: | tart |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pastry |
| Synonyms: | Danish, bun, eclair, fruit tart, pie, popover, roll, turnover |
| Main Entry: | turnout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amount produced |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, output, outturn, product, production, productivity, quota, turnover, volume, yield |
| Antonyms: | origin, resource, source |
| Main Entry: | transfiguration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change |
| Synonyms: | about-face, addition, adjustment, advance, break*, changeover, compression, contraction, conversion, correction, development, difference, distortion, diversification, diversity, innovation, metamorphosis, modification, modulation, mutation, novelty, permutation, reconstruction, refinement, remodeling, reversal, revision, revolution, shift, surrogate, switch, tempering, transformation, transition, translation, transmogrification, transmutation, transubstantiation, turn, turnover, variance, variation, variety, vicissitude |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | transmogrification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change |
| Synonyms: | about-face, addition, adjustment, advance, break*, changeover, compression, contraction, conversion, correction, development, difference, distortion, diversification, diversity, innovation, metamorphosis, modification, modulation, mutation, novelty, permutation, reconstruction, refinement, remodeling, reversal, revision, revolution, shift, surrogate, switch, tempering, transfiguration, transformation, transition, translation, transmutation, transubstantiation, turn, turnover, variance, variation, variety, vicissitude |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | transubstantiation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change |
| Synonyms: | about-face, addition, adjustment, advance, break*, changeover, compression, contraction, conversion, correction, development, difference, distortion, diversification, diversity, innovation, metamorphosis, modification, modulation, mutation, novelty, permutation, reconstruction, refinement, remodeling, reversal, revision, revolution, shift, surrogate, switch, tempering, transfiguration, transformation, transition, translation, transmogrification, transmutation, turn, turnover, variance, variation, variety, vicissitude |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | [Difference at different times] Change. |
| Category: | 1. SIMPLE CHANGE |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution; diversion; break., transformation, transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation; deoxidization; transubstantiation; mutagenesis, transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis; avatar; alterative., conversion (gradual change); revolution (sudden or radical change); inversion (reversal); displacement; transference., changeableness; tergiversation (change of mind).
-verbs
change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume., work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume; metamorphose, ring the changes., innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf., recast; reverse; disturb; convert into.
-adjectives
changed; newfangled; changeable; transitional; modifiable; alterative.
-adverbs
mutatis mutandis ["The necessary changes having been made" (Latin)].
-phrases
"a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]; nous avons changé tout cela [Molière. "We have changed all that" (French)]; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis ["The times are changed even as we are changed in them" (Latin)]; non sum qualis eram [Horace. "I am not as I used to be" (Latin)]; casaque tourner; corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur [Tacitus. "Bodies grow slowly but are snuffed out quickly" (Latin)]; in statu quo ante bellum ["In the state in which it was before the war" (Latin)]; "still ending and beginning still" [Cowper]; vox audita perit littera scripta manet ["The voice heard vanishes, the letter written
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| Antonyms: | permanence |
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