{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ʧeɪnʤ" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (RP)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English changen, chaungen, from Old French changier, from Late Latin cambiāre, from Latin cambīre, present active infinitive of cambiō (“exchange, barter”), from Gaulish cambion, *kambyom (“change”), from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱambos, *(s)kambos (“crooked”).\nCognate with Italian cambiare, Portuguese cambiar, Romanian schimba, Sicilian canciari, Spanish cambiar. Used in English since the 13th century. Displaced native Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan (“to turn, change”) (whence English wend).\nThe 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." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(intransitive) To become something different.\nThe tadpole changed into a frog.   Stock prices are constantly changing." }, { "mean": "(transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.\n1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 1:Lo I the man, whoſe Muſe whilome did maske, / As time her taught in lowly Shepheards weeds, / Am now enforſt a far unfitter taske, / For trumpets ſterne to chaunge mine oaten reeds, / And ſinge of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds \n2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8835, page 80:Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.\n2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.\nThe fairy changed the frog into a prince.   I had to change the wording of the ad so it would fit." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To replace.\nAsk the janitor to come and change the lightbulb.   After a brisk walk, I washed up and changed my shirt." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To replace one's clothing.\nYou can't go into the dressing room while she's changing.   The clowns changed into their costumes before the circus started." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it).\nIt's your turn to change the baby." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)\n2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66:After stopping at these stations, my train has become busy. Returning day-trippers make up a goodly number, along with young people heading for a night out in Bristol, which is where I change once again." }, { "mean": "(archaic) To exchange.\n1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :At the first sight / they have changed eyes. (exchanged looks)\n1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):\nI would give any thing to change a word or two with this person." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).\nto change a horse" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.\n2008, Nick Cave (lyrics and music), “Jesus Of The Moon”, in Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:Cause people often talk about being scared of change / But for me I'm more afraid of things staying the same\n2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8835, page 80:Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.\nThe product is undergoing a change in order to improve it." }, { "mean": "(uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.\nCan I get change for this $100 bill, please?" }, { "mean": "(countable) A replacement.\na change of clothes\n2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC‎:After beating champions Chelsea 3-1 on Boxing Day, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger made eight changes to his starting XI in an effort to freshen things up, with games against Birmingham and Manchester City to come in the next seven days." }, { "mean": "(uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.\nA customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change." }, { "mean": "(uncountable) An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.\nDo you have any change on you? I need to make a phone call.\nThis bus ride requires exact change." }, { "mean": "(countable) A transfer between vehicles.\nThe train journey from Bristol to Nottingham includes a change at Birmingham.\n2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 72:It will provide a 6tph (trains per hour) service and with a single change at Hayes & Harlington offer services towards Reading." }, { "mean": "(baseball) A change-up pitch." }, { "mean": "(campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.\n1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: , London: T. N for J Martyn printer to the R Society, , →OCLC:Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing." }, { "mean": "(Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.\n1727-1728, Edward Burt, Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London\nThey call an alehouse a change." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }