ALL meanings of change
change
C c - variable noun change If there is a change in something, it becomes different. 3
- singular noun change If you say that something is a change or makes a change, you mean that it is enjoyable because it is different from what you are used to. 3
- verb change If you change from one thing to another, you stop using or doing the first one and start using or doing the second. 3
- verb change When something changes or when you change it, it becomes different. 3
- verb change To change something means to replace it with something new or different. 3
- verb change Change is also a noun. 3
- verb change When you change your clothes or change, you take some or all of your clothes off and put on different ones. 3
- countable noun change A change of clothes is an extra set of clothes that you take with you when you go to stay somewhere or to take part in an activity. 3
- verb change When you change a bed or change the sheets, you take off the dirty sheets and put on clean ones. 3
- verb change When you change a baby or change its nappy or diaper, you take off the dirty one and put on a clean one. 3
- verb change When you change buses, trains, or planes or change, you get off one bus, train, or plane and get on to another in order to continue your journey. 3
- verb change When you change gear or change into another gear, you move the gear lever on a car, bicycle, or other vehicle in order to use a different gear. 3
- uncountable noun change Your change is the money that you receive when you pay for something with more money than it costs because you do not have exactly the right amount of money. 3
- uncountable noun change Change is coins, rather than paper money. 3
- uncountable noun change If you have change for larger notes, bills, or coins, you have the same value in smaller notes, bills, or coins, which you can give to someone in exchange. 3
- verb change When you change money, you exchange it for the same amount of money in a different currency, or in smaller notes, bills, or coins. 3
- verb change to make or become different; alter 3
- verb change to replace with or exchange for another 3
- verb change to transform or convert or be transformed or converted 3
- verb change to give and receive (something) in return; interchange 3
- verb change to give or receive (money) in exchange for the equivalent sum in a smaller denomination or different currency 3
- verb change to remove or replace the coverings of 3
- verb change to put on other clothes 3
- verb change (of the moon) to pass from one phase to the following one 3
- verb change to operate (the gear lever of a motor vehicle) in order to alter the gear ratio 3
- verb change to alight from (one bus, train, etc) and board another 3
- noun change the act or fact of changing or being changed 3
- noun change a variation, deviation, or modification 3
- noun change the substitution of one thing for another; exchange 3
- noun change anything that is or may be substituted for something else 3
- noun change variety or novelty (esp in the phrase for a change) 3
- noun change a different or fresh set, esp of clothes 3
- noun change money given or received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or in a different currency 3
- noun change the balance of money given or received when the amount tendered is larger than the amount due 3
- noun change coins of a small denomination regarded collectively 3
- noun change a place where merchants meet to transact business; exchange 3
- noun change the act of passing from one state or phase to another 3
- noun change the transition from one phase of the moon to the next 3
- noun change the order in which a peal of bells may be rung 3
- noun change desirable or useful information 3
- noun change fickleness or caprice 3
- verb transitive change to put or take (a thing) in place of something else; substitute for, replace with, or transfer to another of a similar kind 3
- verb transitive change to give and receive reciprocally; exchange; switch 3
- verb transitive change to cause to become different; alter; transform; convert 3
- verb transitive change to undergo a variation of 3
- verb transitive change to give or receive the equivalent of (a coin or bank note) in currency of lower denominations or in foreign money 3
- verb transitive change to put a fresh, replacement covering, as a diaper or bedclothes, on 3
- intransitive verb change to become different; alter; vary 3
- intransitive verb change to undergo alteration or replacement 3
- intransitive verb change to pass from one phase to another, as the moon 3