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  1. transitive verb To cause to be different: change the spelling of a word.
  2. transitive verb To give a completely different form or appearance to; transform: changed the yard into a garden.
  3. transitive verb To give and receive reciprocally; interchange: change places.
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  • One explanation for the change could be the historic presidential election which kept viewers glued to cable news channels all year. —  B&C - Breaking News
  • A significant catalyst for the change was the emergence, in defiance of the authorities, of pirate radio stations that beamed in rock and pop records 24 hours a day from outside British territory. —  CathNews
  • No timeframe for the change was announced, but the company said it's already begun work "on the technical changes required to give authors and publishers that choice." —  Consumer Reports Electronics Blog
  • Behind the push for the change was an accounting problem that caused the National Telecommunications & Information Administration earlier this month to start putting requests for DTV-to-analog converter box coupons on a waiting list and slow the distribution of the coupons to a trickle. —  B&C - Breaking News
  • As far as the name change is concerned, the change was a reflection of —  HipHopDX.com >
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mutatis mutandis · transume · transformation · ramify · permutation · speciate · metamorphosis · transformative · transmogrify · sublimate · effect

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English changen, from Norman French chaunger, from Latin cambiāre, cambīre, to exchange, probably of Celtic origin.

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  1. Early modern English also chaunge, from Middle English changen, chaungen, from Old French changier, changer, French changer = Provencal cambiar, camjar = Spanish Portuguese cambiar = Italian cambiare, cangiare, from Middle Latin cambiare, extended form of Late Latin cambire, change, exchange; whence also cambial, cambium, etc. The form change is in part an abbreviation of exchange: see exchange.
  2. from Middle English change, chaunge, from Old French change, canje, French change = Provencal camje, cambi = Spanish Portuguese Italian cambio, Italian also cangio (obsolete), from Middle Latin cambium, change; from the verb. In some senses, as 9, 10, 11, short for exchange, q. v.
 

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