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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)

  1. (intransitive) To become something different.
  2. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
  3. (transitive) To replace.
  4. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  5. (transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it).
  6. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
  7. (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.
  8. (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)

  1. (countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.
  2. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  3. (countable) A replacement.
  4. (uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
  5. (uncountable) Usually coins (as opposed to paper money), but sometimes inclusive of paper money
  6. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  7. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  8. (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.
  9. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  10. (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.

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)

  1. exchange

Derived terms

  • bureau de change
  • gagner au change
  • lettre de change

Verb

change

  1. first-person singular present indicative of changer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of changer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of changer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of changer
  5. 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)

  1. (Jersey) change
  2. (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)

  1. change (difference between one state and another)
  2. exchange

Descendants

  • ? Middle English: change
    • English: change
  • French: change

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munge

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /m?nd??/
  • Rhymes: -?nd?

Verb

munge (third-person singular simple present munges, present participle munging, simple past and past participle munged)

  1. (transitive, computing, informal) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner, as for example when data wrangling requires nonsystemic or nonsystematic edits.
    • 2011, Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration
      As a part of the code review with the development team, notify them that you want to have these options as a part of the installation script, rather than you munging the installation scripts during deployment.
  2. (transitive, computing, informal) To add a spamblock to (an email address).
    • 1998, Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel, Stopping spam
      Munging is effective — it prevents unwanted email from reaching you by keeping your real email address out of the clutches of the address-harvesting programs.
  3. (transitive, genealogy, informal) To corrupt a record about an individual by erroneously merging in information about another individual.

Alternative forms

  • mung

Derived terms

  • data munging

Translations


Italian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -und?e

Verb

munge

  1. third-person singular present indicative of mungere

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