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change

[cheynj] / tʃeɪndʒ /


NOUN
act or fact of making different or becoming different
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Usage

What is another way to say change? To change is to make a material difference so that something is distinctly different from what it was: to change one's opinion. To alter is to make some partial change, as in appearance, while still preserving the identity: to alter a dress, as by raising the hem (to change a dress would mean to put on a different one).

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The potential this opera signals is for a major cultural change for San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times

At the same time, the administration’s apparent tolerance for patient self-determination was a hard-won result of the patient campaign to change Carville’s institutional culture from that of a hospital to a community.

From Salon

That changes here, and in exactly the same way that we beat Liverpool in April.

From BBC

They set the enforcement date for after the holiday season to ensure that families, who travel less often, learn about the change.

From The Wall Street Journal

The third method extracted liquid from the pulp and used color changing chemicals that react to ethanol.

From Science Daily