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changen. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French change. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman chaunge, Old French, Middle French change (French change ) action of giving and receiving reciprocally (c1160; originally with specific reference to the exchange of prisoners in warfare), alteration, variation (c1160, originally in a figurative use of the hunting expression correr al change : compare to hunt (the) change at Phrases 3), inconstancy, fickleness (second half of the 12th cent.), place for the conversion of money (c1200, originally with reference to a money changer's table; end of the 13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman as La Chaunge as the name of such a place in London), substitution, replacement (c1300 or earlier) < changer , changier change v. The later semantic development is influenced by change v.; compare also exchange n.Compare Old Occitan camge , camje , Catalan canvi (13th cent.), Spanish cambio (13th cent.), Portuguese câmbio (13th cent.), Italian cambio (13th cent.; end of the 12th cent. as canbio ), and also post-classical Latin cambium exchange (8th cent.; from 14th cent. in British sources), place for exchanging money (frequently from 12th cent. in British and continental sources), exchange of money (from 13th cent. in British and continental sources), vicissitude (14th cent. in a British source; < cambīre change v.). Specific senses. In sense 2 often apprehended since the 19th cent. as a shortening (with elision of the initial syllable) of exchange n. (compare sense 10, and more generally senses of branch III., at that entry), and hence frequently spelt 'change . Specific forms. With the β. forms compare discussion at change v. I. Exchange. †1. the world > time > change > exchange > [noun] ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 232 Vre blod þach aȝein his blod þet he schedde for vs were ful un efne change. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 28820 If þou had lede & hade nede For to haue gold ne wald þou bede For to ma chaunge. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour (St. John's Cambr.) xix. 379 Of hym..chaynge [1489 Adv. chang] wes maid For othir that men takyn had. c1540 (?a1400) (2002) f. 121 Þai..Made a chaunge..of hor choise lordes Toax..was turnyt to the grekes ffor Antenor. 1555 J. Heywood sig. C.v Chaunge is no robry, but robry maketh chaunge. 1600 W. Shakespeare iv. i. 185 That I..Maintaind the change of words with any creature. View more context for this quotation 1665 G. Swinnock xiv. 837 Twas a poor change of Glaucus to exchange gold for copper; but O what a sad exchange wilt thou make to exchange heaven for earth. 1770 W. Guthrie Introd. p. xxxvi Being taken prisoner in Africa, he is sent back on his parole to negotiate a change of prisoners. 1837 A. Burnes Let. 9 Sept. in J. Hobhouse (1839) 1 The change of presents and letters between the Chief of Candahar and the Russian Ambassador at Tehran. society > trade and finance > [noun] a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1882) VIII. 263 (MED) Kyng Edward punsched þe Iewes..for clippynge of money and for evel chaunges [L. pravis escambiis]. 1423 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt (1931) 156 (MED) Item, for the Cheaunge of c iij quarterons of olde lede..Item, for portage of þe olde lede and newe lede. c1470 W. Wey 2 (MED) Take none Englysch golde with yow from Brugies, for ye schal lese in the chavnge. c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece sig. Bv Ane riche toun..quhair sum tyme wes gret change be repair of vncouth marchandis. 1597 in M. Wood & R. K. Hannay (1927) V. 197 That na servants resave or gif owt or mak ony change without the knawledge of thair maisters. 1613 P. Forbes xviii. 196 When Merchants haue no sale or change, then of necessity shippes lie at a full sea. 1693 (single sheet) The said Brewer shall not be permitted to Brew for Change, for the space of five years thereafter. society > trade and finance > trading place > a centre of commerce > [noun] > place where merchants meet 1317 in R. R. Sharpe (1889) I. 271 (MED) Le Eldechaunge. 1389 in H. A. Harben (1918) 448 (MED) Le Oldechaunge. 1423–4 (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1423 §55. m. 31 Gold or silver wrought or unwrought, coigned or uncoigned, or billioun that is brought to the mynte, or to the chaunge. c1450 (a1375) (Calig.) (1979) l. 793 As he toward þe chounge ȝode. 1593 J. Eliot ii. iii. 26 I will be below in the Change, either walking among the Italians, or troking with the French, or pratling amongst our English. 1676 G. Etherege i. i. 3 She saw you yesterday at the Change. 1682 E. Ravenscroft ii. 17 My brother Alderman and I heard of a business upon Change to day in which we are both concern'd. 1712 R. Steele No. 386. ⁋5 If such a Man comes from Change. 1790 E. Burke 336 It is powerful on Change . View more context for this quotation 1821 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in 8 Dec. 1399 Old stock-jobbers..are gone hobbling to 'Change. 1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in (London ed.) 27 What good, honest, generous men at home, will be wolves and foxes on 'change! 1874 J. R. Green vii. §7. 415 Grave merchants upon 'Change. 1912 T. Dreiser lx. 626 If he were sent to the penitentiary, or adjudged a bankrupt.., he would probably lose the privilege of a seat on 'change. 1972 10 Nov. 543/2 Young George, in the fullness of time, being put protestingly on 'Change to carry on in father's footsteps. 2013 P. Ryscavage vi. 81 He knew he could make money on 'Change—he had demonstrated that over the last few years. 3. the world > time > change > [noun] the world > time > change > [noun] > a change the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 2813 Change worþ of bissopriches, & þe digne sege iwis Worþ ybroȝt to kaunterbury, þat at londone nou is. c1391 J. Gower (Huntington) vii. l. 3274* Thus was ther made a newe change. a1475 J. Fortescue (Laud) (1885) 129 In the reaume off Ffraunce was neuer chaunge off thair kynge..but by þe rebillions off such myghty subgettes. a1500 (1839) 11 Alle Englonde..hatyd hym, and were fulle gladde to have a chounge. 1533 T. More i. vii. f. xxiiiiv They were not so gladde to put away theyr fawte, as to make a chaunge of one fawte for an other. 1581 W. Averell sig. G.ivv Chaunge of place cannot transforme, nor alter any minde: Though ayre and soyle he doo exchaunge,his greefe dooth stay by kinde. 1649 J. Spittlehouse To Presbiterian Layety sig. b There hath usually beene great plagues in London..at, or immediately after the change of King. 1663 A. Cowley (1669) 48 No change of Consuls marks to him the year. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu 1 Apr. (1965) I. 312 Every thing I see appears to me a change of Scene. 1796 J. Moore I. xxxvii. 382 The conversation having been interrupted by the change of horses, a long silence took place. 1832 iii. 46 Change of Position—Is when the Line moves altogether off its ground, at the same time advancing or retiring one of its flanks. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. iii. xvi. 220 Leonard Fairfield might be said to have made a change for the better. 1913 7 2 The short eclipse-feathers..differ so little in general tint from the feathers of the winter- and breeding-plumage..that it is difficult to see what advantage the bird derives from the change. 1974 23 Aug. 675/1 There was no state occasion to mark the change of Presidents, only a pompless transfer of power. 2003 (Nexis) 29 Mar. 13 The geese and doves announce the change of season. the world > life > death > [noun] 1537 R. Whitford (new ed.) sig. C.iiiiv Somtyme dethe is taken, & called a chaunge of lyfe.] 1543 R. Grafton Contin. f. lviii, in The true lorde Hastynges..ner thought his life in more suretye in all his dayes, whiche thyng is often a sygne of chaunge. 1565 W. Allen i. vii. f. 65v The fiere of loue in his lyefe tyme had such force in him, that the amending fyer after his chaunge should take no houlde of him at all. 1611 Job xiv. 14 All the dayes of my appointed time will I waite, till my change come. View more context for this quotation 1673 S. Wakeman 3 It was his earnest desire about two or three dayes before his death (being apprehensive that his change was at hand) that I would Preach a Sermon for him upon this Text. 1727 H. Grove 27 I adore the sovereign Decrees of Providence, not severe to him, who was ready for his Change, and kind and merciful to me! 1742 J. Wesley Jrnl. 30 July in (1990) XIX. 282 I went to my mother and found her change was near. 1859 W. M. Thackeray II. xxxv. 284 I fear, sir, your aunt..is not in such a state of mind as will fit her very well for the change which is imminent. 1872 C. H. Spurgeon XVII. 253 So near, so very near the change—his removal from this to another world. ?1787 J. Schofield 39 As a pleasant change, and of an unusual kind, ladies and gentlemen sometimes repair..to take a cold repast, among the grotesque rocks of Clowton-Wyke. 1896 E. Dowson 19 Mar. (1967) 346 It is a refreshing change after Paris and the Quartier. 1927 13 Feb. 20/4 The audience liked its florid style as a change from more modernistic music. 2014 T. McCulloch 265 Ruth's needing a change. We always said we'd do a few years up here, a few years down south. the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > a substitute c1460 (?c1400) Prol. l. 234 (MED) The knyȝt..cast on a fressher gown..And so did al..That had hir chaungis with hem. 1526 f. iv Be cause he had there no change of clothinge he went forth in his deuylls aparell. 1592 sig. C Mistris Lamilia like a cunning angler made readye her change of baytes. 1611 Lev. xxvii. 33 If he change it at all, then both it, and the change thereof, shall be holy. View more context for this quotation 1680 tr. J.-B. Tavernier ii. iii. 22 A Train of fifty chosen Men, every one of which was to have three changes of Habit, of the richest Stuffs that could be had. 1727 P. Longueville 15 I want for no Cloaths, I have a Change for every Season of the Year. 1784 tr. M. de la Tour I. 145 Madurao..immediately ordered them two complete changes of clothes. 1793 8 Many of them are without a change of linen. 1836 C. Dickens 1st Ser. II. 212 Four horses with cloths on—change for a coach. 1876 F. G. Burnaby xxi. 194 A change of clothes, a few instruments and my gun. 1927 July 60/2 Where our grandmothers used one or two changes of water, the modern laundry washes in eleven waters. 1992 S. Holloway xxxi. 250/2 We stayed on duty day and night, only going home for a bath and to get a change of clothes. 5. society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > coins of one currency given for another 1566 f. cxxxviv It is thocht expedient..that na maner of persoun within this Realme, refuse to tak the said Crown of wecht in payment, or for change for vther money. 1573 G. Gascoigne 359 Hick, Hobbe and Dick..Haue many times more goonhole groates in store, And change of crownes more quicke at call than he, Which let their lease and tooke their rent before. ?1609 J. Healey tr. Bp. J. Hall iii. ii. 127 Gold is ready change with them for led. 1680 115 The Merchant return'd with the full Change in Silver. 1766 P. Thicknesse xxii. 114 There being no piece of coin of a livre, you receive change in crowns. 1781 R. B. Sheridan i. i. 2 Can you give me change for a guinea? 1851 N. Hawthorne (1900) i. 30 He used to give change for a shilling, and would turn a half-penny twice over, to make sure that it was a good one. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice III. v. 83 One feels a difficulty in offering a princess the change for a shilling in coppers. 1908 E. M. Forster xiv. 220 Miss Bartlett looked in her purse. Only sovereigns and pennies. Could anyone give her change? 1954 A. Gilbert x. 175 He gave Mrs. B. change for a quid. 2002 (Nexis) 12 Nov. I can't even get change for the euro anywhere. society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > small coins collectively 1633 W. Lithgow sig. E Men are made Often for lack of change, to leaue, or losse Whole, half, or part, of their twyse Dollourd drosse. 1661 T. Henshaw 1 Like beggers change, wrapt in a golden purse. 1681 5 He bid Hugh give him three pence, but wanting Change, he asked me for three pence. 1751 S. Johnson No. 177. ⁋7 He had just received in a handful of change, the piece that he had..been seeking. 1835 15 June The fact is, I have not, positively, spare change enough to buy myself a shirt, or, a pair of breeches. 1919 ‘K. Mansfield’ 30 Nov. (1993) III. 127 I walk about among the stalls..and see the womans gesture as she rattles for change in the money bag at her side. 1951 T. Sterling vi. 78 He walked down the stairs, struggling for change in his pants pocket. 2000 I. Pattison (2001) iv. 160 I should have thrown down some change on the table, winked and said, ‘See you around, doll.’ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum > as surplus (after payment) 1665 Capt. Van Meeuwen Let. in (1697) 258 The English Admiral..powered in upon him a whole Broad side. When we saw that, we repaid him his change. 1677 5 Instead of justly returning the full Change, [she] stopt and abated two pence or three pence out of it. 1715 W. Symson 69 Our Men..gave half a Dollar for any thing they wanted, without getting any Change. 1751 S. Johnson No. 161. 18 He never had small money in his pocket; and..was always vehement and stormy till he received his change. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton II. xii. 122 Give me my change and my gin, you scoundrel! 1863 26 Sept. 384/1 The shopkeeper tests the coin, finds it to be good, and gives the thief his proper change. 1936 ‘George Orwell’ viii. 210 He threw four pound notes on the waiter's salver and said casually, ‘Keep the change.’ 1995 A. Warner (1996) 201 Without waiting for change I stood up and walked out. 1584 T. Bedingfield tr. C. Corte xiv. 44 Obserue time, changing hands as you ought, and at euerie change [It. nel mutar mano] thrust him foorth one pase. 1607 G. Markham ii. 148 In this ring you shall exercise your horse..making him pace it, and doe his changes. 1799 J. Adams 95 A Change is no more than the altering the hand to which you were going, or the foot with which you were leading. 1801 W. Frazer tr. F. R. de la Guérinière 51 The low airs, or those which the horse performs near the ground, are the passage, the piaffe,..the change of hands [etc.]. 1861 J. Butler 68 Ladies should accustom their horses to canter with either leg foremost..: changes..always give ease to both horse and rider. 1952 R. S. Summerhays 127 A change of leading leg at canter..can be performed singly or in close succession every 4th, 3rd, or 2nd stride. 1986 2 May 32/3 Despite the beautiful quality of their canter the changes lacked elegance. 2002 L. Allen vii. 186 Without the proper basics in place first, you are far more likely to create an upset or irritated horse than a clean lead change. society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > connecting passage 1598 W. Shakespeare v. ii. 208 Then in our measure, do but vouchsafe one change . View more context for this quotation 1613 J. Marston & W. Barksted ii. sig. Cv (stage direct.) They take the women, and dance the first change. 1651 J. Playford 38 Doe this change to the last, the rest following. 1712 J. Weaver tr. Claudian in v. 113 Their moving Breasts in tuneful Changes rise. 1802 ‘Saltator’ 71 A knowledge of the tune only can determine how many changes the figure may be composed of; that is, how many steps will measure the tune. 1863 5 Most of the tunes played for these dances are composed with two changes, each change being played twice. 1937 B. Tolman & R. Page ii. 29 The best way to learn the changes is to invite a good dancer to demonstrate them. 1964 M. Wood 130 Perhaps the most popular change was that called ‘La Course’, or the Promenade. 2006 B. Dueck in K. Howard 44 When dancing the first change, dancers employ a shuffling, alternating step pattern. the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > beer- or ale-house society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > inn 1609 in J. D. Marwick (1870) II. 275 Ony kind of oistelrie or chainge. 1664 J. Lamont (1830) 170 Johne Wischart, baylie of St Androus, who keiped the great change there. 1700 J. Brome iii. 200 Several Merchants of great Credit and repute..adjourn to their Changes, i.e. Taverns, or other places where their business may require them to give their Attendance. 1754 E. Burt I. iv. 80 A Gentleman that keeps a Change... They call an Alehouse a Change. ?a1799 J. Burness (new ed.) II. 75 Aside the kirk dwalls Robbie Dorat, Wha keeps a change, an' sells guid drink. 1880 W. T. Dennison 28 He had no far tae gang; for Ma'n's Slater keepid a change i' the hoose o' Purgatory. 9. society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun] > going through all the changes > changes 1610 J. Mason i. i. sig. B4v Our bels ring forth our sorrowes in sad peales, No pleasant changes to giue Princes welcome. a1661 T. Fuller (1662) Lincs. 152 Twelve bells will afford more changes than there have ben hours since the Creation. 1702 J. Doleman 188 Ring a short Peal of round Ringing, or Changes in true time and compass. 1764 S. Rogers 36 What notes more lively can our senses know Than the loud changes of the bells at Bow? 1864 J. Ingelow 140 O Boston bells! Ply all your changes. 1898 G. S. Tyack viii. 141 Five thousand changes..is the smallest number to which the name of a peal is technically allowed. 1928 10 Apr. 8/2 12 members of the Ancient Society of College Youths..rang a peal of Stedman Cinques, consisting of 5,007 different changes on the 12 bells. 2002 2 Aug. 802/3 Bob persevered with bell handling and can now..call changes. 1678 T. Strode 1 By Variations, permutation or changes of the Places of Quantities, I mean, how many several ways any given Number of Quantities may be changed. 1728 E. Chambers Changes, in Arithmetic, &c. the Permutations or Variations of any Number of Quantities; with regard to their Position, Order, &c. 1758 S. Clark 20 The denominator..contains all the different ways that the said (n) letters can be varied, and is commonly called the number of changes or permutations of the given quantities. 1839 J. Cape I. 176 Write down all the changes or permutations that can take place in the letters a, b, c, d. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > manner of bowling > change of bowler or bowling 1828 G. T. Knight Let. 15 Feb. in Mar. 337/1 Each eleven..should contain at the least four good bowlers, so that there may be..a change at each wicket. 1833 J. Nyren 64 We reckoned him a tolerably good change for bowling. 1912 J. B. Hobbs 124 A double change was tried, Mr. Douglas and Woolley relieving the opening trundlers. 1955 25 June 7/4 Our opening bowlers were a house decorator and a curate, and I was first change. 2009 (Nexis) 1 Aug. (Sport section) 1 He has been an all-rounder, batting in the middle, taking the ball as second change, chipping in. society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > driving or operating a motor vehicle > operating clutch or gears 1895 Nov. 31/1 In the Duryea vehicle the change of gears, by an ingenious arrangement of cams and levers, is effected by a vertical movement of the lever without an instant's loss of time. 1909 J. S. V. Bickford §1173 Let us now consider a change from a lower gear to a higher. 1959 M. Platt (ed. 2) v. 85 Decreasing car speeds with a constant throttle opening will produce ‘down’ changes. 2009 C. Dunn i. 3 One last, steep upward bend and the Morris bounded forward, demanding a change into third gear. II. Alteration. 12. the world > time > change > [noun] > undergoing change ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 129 Worldliche þinges þet beoð as þemone eauer inchange. 1340 (1866) 104 He [sc. God] is zoþliche..wiþoute enye chonge eure to yleste. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) (1891) l. 5438 Withoute chaunge or variaunce. 1495 (de Worde) iv. ix. sig. fiiii/2 He [sc. flewme] is able to be..chaunged in to blode. & whan the chaunge is full made [etc.]. 1548 R. Crowley sig. I.iv He not subiecte to anye maner alteration or chaung, but is euer one and the same. 1597 R. Hooker v. lxvii. 179 A true change both of soule and body..from death to life. 1615 H. Crooke 55 The mutation or change of bloud into a bone, cannot be accomplished but by long interpolation and many meane alterations. 1686 tr. 86 A strange disorder, which increased at the sight of the terrible Change he observed in her Looks. 1715 tr. D. Gregory I. ii. §30. 311 Remarkable Changes as have happen'd among the Fix'd Stars. 1788 R. B. Sheridan ii. 23 Justice. Do you really see any change in me? Rosy. Change! never was man so altered. 1858 J. H. Bennet i. 26 Change, constant change, is the law of organic life. 1874 J. R. Green ii. §1. 61 The change in himself was as startling as the change in his policy. 1904 Dec. 392 This unlooked-for change is unquestionably due to the unusual rainfall of the last four months. 1969 T. Alexander iv. 99 Early childhood..is increasingly seen as a period of rapid change and significant accomplishment. 2007 E. Morrison (2008) ii. 209 She'd been a bit weirded out by the change in him since he'd lost this job. the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 2600 (MED) Fortune..of chaunge lady is and quene. a1439 J. Lydgate (Bodl. 263) i. l. 4822 (MED) Yit is ther non..So dreedful chaung nor transmutacioun, As chaung off pryncis to yiue a iugement. a1500 (Rawl.) (1896) 51 (MED) We haue stond..hygh, and now we ben turnyd to the louyst; for So is the schavnge of this world. a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil (1557) iv. sig. F.iv Full of change these women be alway. 1560 A. L. tr. J. Calvin iii. 50 We se then this inconstancie, this chaunge, this lightnes in maner in all men. 1608 W. Shakespeare i. 279 You see how full of changes his age is. View more context for this quotation 1676 J. Dryden i. 12 You bid me fear: in that your change I know. 1707 J. Dunton lxxxviii. 400 Why then shou'd we admire our Levites Change, Since 'tis their nat'ral Motion? 1743 J. Burton To Rdr. p. v They wou'd be..surpriz'd to find, that men given to change..shou'd be esteem'd the most steady friends to any Government. 1822 C. G. Ward iii. 45 A time may come when you have more cause to blame my stability and my firm unshaken resolutions, than charge me with levity, fickleness, and change. 1875 19 June 785/2 They..cannot for the life of them make Tuesday resemble Monday. Change is the order of their nature. 1987 F. Ruan & Y. Tsai tr. C. Sen in 14 31 Catamites..are full of change and surprise. the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > passage between a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vii. l. 724 (MED) Of flodes hihe and ebbes lowe Upon his [sc. the Moon's] change it schal be knowe. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ix. iv. 521 Somtyme þe ȝere of þe mone is iclepid þe space of tyme þe mone meueþ round aboute from coniuncioun to coniunccioun, þat is fro chaunginge to chaunge. 1430 Astron. Cal. in E. M. Thompson et al. (1913) 2nd Ser. I. Pl. 72b (MED) Þo toke I þe degre of þe sygne in þe qwych þe chonge forsayd was in, þat was þe 11 degre of Gemini. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus I. Luke i. f. xxviv Circumcision, newe chaunges of the moone, washynges, holy dayes, fastes, chose or difference of meates, and sacrifices, should be abolished. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1622) iii. iii. 182 To follow still the changes of the Moone With fresh suspitions. 1669 S. Sturmy i. i. 10 A Rule to find the Change, Full, and Quarters of the Moon..The 29th day of October is the day of her Change, or New Moon. 1728 (Royal Soc.) 35 350 He relaps'd after that on the Change of the Moon. 1736 (Royal Soc.) 39 246 The Method was repeated at the two or three succeeding Fulls and Changes of the Moon. 1858 5 365 It is high water, full and change..at 10 h. 11 m. 1881 Nov. 810 I still have 'em [fits] once or twice a week sometimes, always with a change in the moon. 1915 308 At full or change of the moon, tides are caused which are about 3/ 7 greater than the lunar or anti-lunar tides. 1966 D. Sutherland i. iii. 55 With the change of the moon in the spring equinox there comes the phenomenon of the neap tides. 2013 9 Mar. c6/1 Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The sense of relief you feel is related to the recent change of the moon and the knowledge that you don't have to do everything alone. 14. Music. society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > key > alteration from prevailing key 1574 F. Kinwelmersh tr. A. Le Roy f. 37v Seyng this song to ende in A. of the seconde stryng, a manne might take it to be his proper and naturall Tune, although there doe happen a chaunge into B. sharpe. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay xii. 197 In Musik we beare with changes [Fr. muances] and breathes, with pauses and discordes. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. ii. 66 Harke, what fine change is in the Musique. View more context for this quotation 1784 W. Jones vi. 26 The modulation steals on imperceptibly, in a manner most agreeable to the Ear, which is apt to be offended with all sudden and abrupt changes. 1854 A. N. Johnson xxxix. 134 The first chord..is resolved at once into the key of F♯ minor, without making the enharmonic change of F♯ to E♯. 1946 R. Blesh v. 108 The harmonic changes, simple, rugged, and Beethovenesque. 2000 B. Woodman in G. Santoro (2001) v. 71 I don't know how she could hear the melody, because there were all these different changes he had. 1946 L. G. Feather in iii. 31/1 The toughest selections to make were the guitars... Chuck Wayne..can run changes with a magnificent beat at any tempo. 1956 10 Sept. 16/4 The Bryant-Isaacs duo put on a miniature concert. They played the changes on a rapid blues. 1966 Nov. 14/2 I like a person who can improvise inside and outside of the changes. 1982 22 May 7/1 The band often did well to roll with the changes of Hooker's unstructured blues tunes. 2004 May 131/2 Luther Thomas soars across Steinmetz's melodies, in true harmolodic sense, not playing the changes but the tunes. 1637 R. Norwood iii. 14 For every ten chaines of six Poles, to a chayne I make two stroaks signifying two changes or 20 chaynes. 1653 W. Leybourn ii. v. 48 These ten Chains (if the distance you are to measure be large) you may call a Change, and so you may denominate every large distance by Changes, Chains, and Links. 1706 38 Let the Length of a Piece of Ground set down in Ogdoads be 75236, i.e. 7 Ogdoads, 5 Changes, 3 Chaines, 2 Perches, and 6 Links. 1757 J. Gray i. 20 The number of changes, pins and odd links is the measure of the line required. 1858 W. D. Haskoll i. 14 After the first change, let the cutting of a fence come at 3 chains and 83 links. 1761 J. Andree 74 As it is observed, that Cancers frequently happen about that Period, we would advise the Sex, not to omit the necessary Cautions at that Time, although the Change should seem to take Place without any apparent Inconvenience. 1849 1 609 I would..insist on the importance of regulating the diet of patients undergoing the catamenial change. 1882 E. J. Tilt (ed. 4) i. 12 ‘You will be all right after the change,’ is the well-known answer a woman of forty gets, when complaining of any chronic ailment, especially pelvic. 1934 S. Beckett 117 The mother was low-sized, pale and plump, admirably preserved though well past the change. 1991 G. Greer 9 Life beyond the menopause is as invisible to the woman who has yet to struggle through the change as the top of a mountain is invisible from the valley below. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > pitching > types of pitch 1982 23 Aug. c4/1 I came back with the same pitch, a change, and he hits it out of the yard. 2000 (Electronic ed.) 1 June b1 He threw a great change followed with his fastball. 2015 (Nexis) 6 Apr. b1 The change became the keystone of his pitching identity. Phrasesthe world > time > change > exchange > [adverb] a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 259 (MED) At Brisak..I have i-fonge in chaunge enlevene grotes turoneys for a duket. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 527 Took his herte in chaunge of myn. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara (1546) f. 102 In chaunge of stronge and vertuous men, thou haste sent thy wantons to vs. 1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede iv. ix. f. 123 She was taken out of this life also, and receaued euerlasting rewarde in chaunge of those temporall afflictions. 1609 W. Shakespeare iii. iii. 27 They will almost, Giue vs a Prince of blood..In change of him. View more context for this quotation 1688 J. Baber 4 Men who did those Golden days survive Life present, for the past, in change would give. 1743 E. Young 50 A pamper'd Spendthrift; whose fantastic Air, Well fashion'd Figure, and cockaded Brow, He took in change. 1867 ‘Ouida’ III. xii. 335 A life! Tiens! what is it to give? We hold it in our hands every hour, we soldiers, and toss it in change for a draught of wine. 1989 35 84 Any customer..was compelled to bow in front of Egya Komu... That was all Father Monkey wanted in change for his maize. P2. Phrases in the form ‘a change of —’. the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > [noun] a1400 (a1325) (Gött.) l. 57 (MED) To day it es, to moru away; Wid chance of dede or change [a1400 Trin. Cambr. chaunge] of hert, Þat soft bigan endis ful smert. a1628 J. Preston Treat. Effectuall Faith ii. 72 in (1630) Except there be a change of heart, Christ is not in you. 1646 J. Vicars 438 Thus have you seene the Kings Letter full indeede, of much evill, and Demonstration of no change of heart from his former bloody, cruell and unkingly practises. 1769 E. Lewis xxx. 163 His behaviour and words were of too equivocal a nature to ground any confidence of a change of heart. 1827 S. B. H. Judah II. iii. 76 In most bosoms there had come a change of heart towards their leader. 1874 168 The sincerity of his change of heart was manifested by a corresponding change of life. 1960 71 119/1 A change of heart in high places would help. 2013 (Nexis) 6 Nov. a2 You can understand why his critics are cynical about his sudden change of heart. 1548 f. xlvj He..sent before all his noble men, as though for a certayne familiaritee and kyndenes they should visite and comforte ye duke which then for recreacion and chaunge of ayre, laie on the borders and confynes of Fraunce. a1661 T. Fuller (1662) Shrop. 11 Change of Air and Diet..are conceived to have accelerated his death. 1705 F. Fuller 115 A Gentleman..found that Riding supported him as much, as the Change of Air. 1841 A. Catherwood vi. 63 Under these circumstances, a change of air was proposed as the only remedy left untried. 1914 6 Jan. 7/1 There is no special curative virtue in change of air. 2005 A. Diamant 172 He went from time to time, just for the change of air and to have a look at her old house. the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > [noun] 1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther cix. 642 [After the earthquake] they durst not holde on in their tyrannie... Such sodaine chaunge of minde, did aboundantly declare..their..vnrighteousnesse. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil 498 From whence these Murmurs, and this change of Mind? 1712 A. Philips ii. 27 His Threats have wrought this Change of Mind in Pyrrhus. 1854 G. J. Adler 220 It was by his absentment from the court..that Goethe brought about this change of mind. 1960 16 July 44 You could have a change of mind regarding a new business method so don't be afraid to say so. 2014 Apr. 4/2 The police thought she might have had a change of mind and accepted a lift from someone. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > pitching > types of pitch 1650 W. Davenant 138 The variation whereof, is a change of pace that argues the Poet tired. 1883 21 Apr. 8 Welch's pitching was a feature of the game. His change of pace at times was very good and met with the approval of good judges of the national game. 1946 May 18/3 One finger might mean ‘straight ball’, two fingers ‘a curve’, three fingers ‘a change of pace’. 1991 24 Dec. 10/3 Being in this part of the world is a pleasant change of pace from showbiz. 2015 C. Bevis viii. 69 The key to an effective change of pace was to disguise its delivery. 1694 J. Locke (new ed.) ii. xxi. 133 What moves the mind..to this or that particular Motion or Rest?.. The motive to change, is always some uneasiness; nothing setting us upon the change of State..but some uneasiness. 1733 A. Baxter 5 Matter never acts, or effects a change of state in itself, but resists action, and all possible change of its present state, whether of motion or rest. 1788 W. Nicholson in tr. A.-F. de Fourcroy I. i. v. 109 Universally the effects of an increased temperature are either (1) conversion of the whole body into fluid or vapour; or (2) decomposition..; or (3) without change of state or composition, an increase of the dimensions. 1886 P. S. Michie 5 Force alone acts and produces change of state. 1962 1 329 The energy required for this change of state is supplied by incoming radiation from the sun. 1984 D. Emmet viii. 84 It [sc. Newton's First Law of Motion] describes a condition with no change of state. 2013 F. Bettelheim & J. Landesberg (ed. 8) 150 The temperature for this change of state is the same as the boiling temperature. the world > people > person > middle-aged person > [noun] > middle age > menopause or change of life the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive cycle > [noun] > menstrual cycle > menopause 1761 J. Andree 74 Her Cancer, in all Probability was owing to her not using Evacuations, &c. at the Time of her Change of Life. 1776 A. Hume v. 40 Several of the incurable disorders which arise at the change of life have been owing to this disease. 1828 M. Ryan 30 When menstruation is about to cease, the period is called ‘the change or turn of life’, and many important changes take place in the constitution. 1899 4 May (advt.) Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound..helped me through the change of life period. 1959 ‘E. McBain’ x. 93 Meyer had been a change-of-life baby. 1966 J. J. Phillips ii. 21 My wife be going through that change of life. 2013 N. Ragen iii. 21 The ‘blessing’ of pregnancy always hovered over her, and would until the change of life made it impossible. 1863 18 Nov. As soon as the first draft was ordered there was an immediate change of tack. 1897 23 Mar. 4/3 We may take it that their change of tack indicates a change of opinion about the general policy which the Government are pursuing. 1915 E. D. Biggers & R. W. Ritchie 311 The governor's face reflected momentary surprise at this change of tack. 1959 11 Sept. 8/1 That such views are being expressed..underlines other reports that there may be a change of tack in labor union political activity. 2009 W. A. Jackson xii. 189 Since high-ranking academics are powerful in the economics profession, their change of tack could possibly reconfigure mainstream economics. the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (intransitive)] > follow wrong scent a1425 Edward, Duke of York (Digby) xiii. 67 Þei knowe wele þat þei shull not hunt þe chaunge; and þei ben not so wyse forto disseuer þe hert fro þe chaunge, for þei abyde styll and restyffe. 1575 G. Gascoigne xxxviii. 103 If the houndes shoulde hunte chaunge, or scatter and stray from the right wayes, then may they returne to the laft marke, and so seeke againe the first chace. a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd i. vi. 138 in (1640) III Rob. And hunted yee at force? Mar. In a full cry. Io. And never hunted change ! View more context for this quotation 1677 N. Cox (ed. 2) i. 16 When the Hounds..take fresh scent, hunting another Chase,..,we say, they Hunt Change. 1704 at Buck-Hunting To have a care of Hunting Counter or Change, because of the plenty of Fallow Deer that use to come more directly upon the Hounds, than the red Deer doth. 1756 53 See the people opening in full cry, and hunting the change, till they had run their resentment out of breath, or evaporated it upon that pitiful object. 1829 G. Griffin I. xvii. 140 How often at evening has he..excited my young ambition with tales of..hunting mute, hunting change, and hunting counter! 1945 20 72 Hounds were said to ‘hunt change’..when they left the trail of the hunted deer for a new one. P4. Phrases relating to sense 3. the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > variation [phrase] > in order to produce variety 1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara (rev. ed.) iv. vii. f. 125v To be serued with a rusty knyfe, to eat in foule dishes, & to drink for a change whot water. 1681 J. Dryden Prol. 33 sig. Aivv Our Fathers did for change to France repair. 1697 W. Dampier xi. 314 Take 6 or 7 ripe Plantains,..boyl them instead of a Bag-pudding;..this is a very good way for a change. 1776 L. Chalmers I. 96 The diet should consist of well-boiled gruel.., and sometimes the broth of lean meat may be given for a change. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Walking to Mail in (new ed.) II. 48 He..sick of home went overseas for change. 1876 F. G. Burnaby xviii. 168 Anything for a change..we are bored to death here. 1918 V. Eliot Let. 13 Mar. in T. S. Eliot (1988) I. 224 I am trying to earn an honest (for a change) penny, by cinema acting, and have attained an unexpected success. 1969 A. Salkey 47 Make you'self useful for a change. 2011 H. Pool 141 Maybe something good was about to happen to me for a change. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [phrase] 1658 tr. J. L. G. de Balzac i. ii. xxix. 62 You see here I put the change upon you, and deviate as much from my subject as I can. 1694 W. Congreve v. i. 75 I have put the change upon her, that she may be otherwise employ'd. 1705 E. Hickeringill 44 He put the change upon the unthinking Senate; and ordain'd a Presbyter or Elder in the room of every Parish-Priest. a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes (1742) II. ii. ix. 140 Those enchanters..are perpetually setting shapes before me as they really are, and presently putting the change upon me, and transforming them into whatever they please. 1821 W. Scott I. iii. 58 You cannot put the change on me so easy as you think. 1863 May 242 It is of no use trying to put the change upon the sagacious and penetrating reader. 1825 Mar. 62 Change of work is as good as play. 1857 26 Sept. Ye sloths who exertion detest, This maxim I wish to drive into your heads—A change is as good as a rest. 1912 Aug. 17/2 I am sure that some of you men are going to enjoy Rockford, because they say that a change is as good as a vacation. 1952 T. Armstrong xii. 411 A change is as good as a rest, as Mary Jane Tiplady telled me when I caught her doing a few jobs for me. 2014 1 Mar. 14/5 A change would be as good as a rest for the regulars. 1853 E. C. Gaskell III. ii. 46 I wish Farquhar were at home. Though he is such a stiff, quiet old fellow, his coming in in the evenings makes a change. 1883 14 May This does not have so good a flavor as other kinds of frosting, but it makes a change. 1919 T. S. Eliot 17 June (1988) I. 304 The servant is also taking a fortnight's holiday at Margate... As she says of everything ‘it makes a change’. 1970 I. Murdoch (1979) II. ix. 286 They are such a lovely yellow.., so I thought at least they'd make a change. 1997 Sept. 118/5 The Vine makes a welcome change from the stark superiority of many pub-restaurants. 2005 (Nexis) 11 Apr. (Features section) 22 It makes a change to see a handsome woman who has not been facelifted and Botoxed to within an inch of her life. P5. Phrases relating to sense 5c. 1865 G. A. Sala I. xi. 237 The corner-grocery man who can't make change has not improbably a couple of barrels full of nickel cents down in his cellar. 1931 W. Faulkner xxvii. 327 Promise to get the kid a newspaper grift when he's old enough to make change. 1978 S. Brill iv. 124 The cash registers looked..out of date..compared to the sleek digital boxes to make change in the shopping malls. 2001 May 54/1 Nobody beats French salesclerks at conveying scorn while making change. 1775 19 Oct. He called to them, ‘Gentlemen, take your change,’ and..fired a fowling piece after them.] 1823 23 Feb. He would tell him of another Master-General who headed the disastrous expedition to Walcheren.—‘Now let him,’ said he, ‘take his change out of that.’ 1894 Oct. 265/2 ‘Yer can take yer change out of this, you brute!’ and with lightning rapidity he dashed his fist full into the face of the astonished Bruton. 1942 24 Oct. (Sports section) 20/3 Botanist Harlow doesn't point to a verdant frond and say: ‘That's a Royal Fern.’ No; he just jerks a thumb and mutters: ‘Osmunda regalis.’ Take your change out of that! 1823 5 Mar. In ‘taking his change’ out of their speeches, the ‘tottle of the whole’ was very little to his satisfaction. 1847 T. De Quincey Secret Societies in Aug. 514/2 I should certainly have ‘taken my change’ out of the airs she continually gave herself. 1897 ‘M. Twain’ xxi. 209 If a man do you a wrong, his whole tribe is responsible..and you may take your change out of any individual of it, without bothering to seek out the guilty one. 1827 A. N. Royall iv. 32 Gibson. You gave me a d—l of a surloinder right there, (placing his hand upon his side.) Jones. Ah! (said Jones, with a rueful countenance) and you have given me change for it! 1864 C. Dickens (1865) I. i. v. 38 If you showed me a B, I could so far give you change for it, as to answer Boffin. the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail in [verb (transitive)] > fail to accomplish anything or much 1860 I. Dutton I. xxi. 309 To use one of your expressions, ‘she gets no change out of it.’ 1864 A. Trollope II. xxx. 312 ‘That's a bitter old lady.’..‘There ain't none of 'em get much change out of Mrs. Crump.’ 1888 Mrs. H. Ward I. i. vi. 140 I just love..to hear her instructing other people in their own particular trades. She didn't get much change out of him. 1910 J. Buchan xii. 209 Still I said nothing. If the man had come to mock me, he would get no change out of David Crawford. 1954 J. Trench ii. 62 She didn't get much change out of Charles. a1995 G. Jones (1996) 225 He won't get any change out of us, not likely. He can go to the devil. 1966 26 July 11/3 He took bets that only a fool would take... After his pile climbed to about $2500 and change, suddenly Clarence said, ‘I quit.’. 1975 E. Torres 52 So I did three and change. 1992 25 June c 1/4 He has extremely long arms and is a terrific shot-blocker, despite being just 6–6 and change. 1994 18 June (Metro ed.) j 2/1 World trip—just how much did it cost? Ten grand and change. 2014 J. Maberry 297 Nix said, ‘Death Valley isn't that far, is it?’ ‘Hundred miles and change,’ said Joe. Compounds C1. With adverbs, forming compound agent nouns corresponding to adverbial combinations of the verb (see change v. Phrasal verbs). See also change up n.society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > [noun] > driving or operating a motor vehicle > operating clutch or gears 1910 23 Aug. 5/2 On ascents on which a driver..would have supposed the time had come for altering the gear, they reached the top without any change down. 1947 F. S. Hollidge iii. 10 A timely change down will often prevent ‘stalling’ the engine. 1998 Dec. 39/2 Using the engine brake instigates a change down. 1926 Sept. 34/2 Keep a monthly record of your spring change-outs for a period of one year. 1984 (Nexis) Sept. 59 There was not an adequate break in the work schedule..to allow for the changeout of an 8,500-ft main lift umbilical. 2013 M. Evans xii. 379 After the change-out, the rocket shop technicians had to run the engine on the test stand. 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ 101/2 The change-horses being better at the regular hunt-stable. 1884 Bp. of Chichester in 20 Aug. 5 To keep a book..in which the name of every change-preacher should be entered. 1903 F. M. Ware 239 If you keep spare horses, you must always arrange to provide a change leader and a wheeler. 1993 S. Stewart vi. 53 ‘Mr George’..had change-boats as well, for hirin when yourn was in his dock. 2013 (Nexis) 23 Dec. 19 You never know what garish change strip your team will wear these days. C3. society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > change > one who initiates 1847 5 Aug. The perfumed Colonels, the brisk change agents, are no longer in season. 1971 34 644 The absorption of new recruits who will act as change-agents, socialising the senior members of the [legal] profession and themselves gradually seeping into positions of authority and responsibility. 2004 28 June 79/2 It was not a new solution to the state's budget crisis—hardly worthy of the ‘change agent’ that his campaign billed him as. 1704 T. Baker i. 9 You're a parcel of Hypocrites and Latitudinarians, and you make such sneaking Feasts now i'the City, one's forc'd after Dinner to go to the Chop House in Change Alley. 1849 J. Francis ii. 28 No sooner had the members of the jobbing community taken their quarter in 'Change Alley, than the City of London was seized with alarm, and tried to keep the brokers at the Royal Exchange. 1994 N. F. Koehn iv. 119 Bank of England officials, Change Alley brokers, and other men who made the availability of credit their business. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > bowler > relief bowler 1833 J. Nyren 58 The corps de reserve, or change-bowlers, were Barber and Hogsflesh. 1903 P. G. Wodehouse xv. 214 He was essentially a change bowler. 2015 (Nexis) 29 Jan. 63 Broad and Finn, the taller men, are the change bowlers charged with disrupting the rhythm of batsmen in the quieter middle overs. society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > use of bills of exchange > one dealing in bills of exchange 1683 J. S. iv. v. 33 There are likewise several Persons imployed that are called Change-Broakers, who are usually imployed to buy up Commodities for Shopkeepers, as they see advantage. 1724 F. Slare Let. 13 July in J. Jurin (1996) 261 He is a Change Broker and numbered amongst the Fair Dealers. 1837 T. Carlyle II. vi. v. 391 Poor Sub-lieutenant Duhamel, innocent Change-broker. 2002 D. B. Morris vii. 51 There were seventeen men, who were variously described as brokers, dealers, exchange brokers, change brokers or chapmen. ?1574 W. Bourne ii. sig. C.ijv When the age of the Moone is iust .30. then is it the chaunge daye. 1633 T. James 18 It flowes on the change day, about a eleuen a clocke. 1744 A. Dobbs 73 The Tide at the Mouth of the River on Change Days flows five Hours, and rises from 10 to 15 Feet. 1842 J. Taylor 159 The time of high water on full and change days of the moon. 1876 (U.S. Patent Office) 21 Mar. 580/1 By substituting one change-gear for another larger or smaller..the speed of the bobbin increased or diminished. 1948 Dec. 210/2 The change gears at left may seem conventional. But a few dodges make it possible to switch them in a jiffy. 2008 H. A. Youssef & H. El-Hofy v. 195 The hobbing machine is ordinarily furnished with a complete selection of change gears. society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum > as surplus (after payment) > giving of 1897 (heading) Change-giving money till. 1908 16 May 1/6 The change-giving rostrums were in working order. 2015 (Nexis) 22 Oct. Automatic change-giving machines on buses. 1651 No. 115. 1776 No Stabler, In holder or Change keeper in this Garrison, shall presume to demand or receive any more than eight pence of any person whatsoever, for a Horse Hay and Stable room, day and night. 1772 12 Two men..had inticed him to go along with them to the house of John Gourlay change-keeper, and had there induced him to drink to excess. 1812 Jan. 73/1 The trial of John Hog, change-keeper in North Leith. 2008 B. Harris (Electronic ed.) Other well represented groups included bookbinder, change keeper, clerk..and writer. 1878 H. R. Towne 1348/1 I accomplish these results by separating the mechanism by which the master-key actuates the bolt from that by which the change-key actuates it. 2003 G. Craighead (ed. 2) v. 123 When the change key is inserted, note that the top of the first master pin aligns with the top of the cylinder plug. 1844 3 137 The long end of the change-lever..is brought into contact with the change-stop. 1908 14 Nov. 8/6 This..gear is now equipped with a change-lever. 2012 1/2 The switching member is configured as a change lever. 1971 May 44/2 Master file changes should be made only by independent groups..with special pre-numbered forms, using change logs and in a manner that subjects each change to the control totals. 1993 12 Apr. 73/2 VisualWorks' manuals discuss version control and change logs, two useful tools for big projects. 2016 (Nexis) 17 Aug. Microsoft didn't start posting Win10 changelogs until the 12th cumulative update for version 1511, build 10586.318—a full 10 months after Win10's release. 1852 Oct. 316 The change-maker stood by the side of a large pile of bank-notes and specie. 1914 F. E. Clark & S. A. Clark 95 You need not even count your change, unless you want to make sure that the change-maker has not cheated himself. 1968 8 Dec. a45 He calls the first students in this new course, the change-makers. 1979 31 Aug. a13 ‘You'd have trouble trying to spend [a dollar coin]..in a vending machine,’ said..the national sales manager of..a St. Louis firm that manufactures the coin mechanisms for vending machines and change makers. 1990 C. A. Kent 284 Although only a relatively small number of people become entrepreneurs, there is a significantly larger number who could be the creative change makers the nation needs. 2012 (Nexis) 31 Mar. 44 We in Labour still have a mountain to climb if we are to prove we can be the change-makers. 1964 A. Zaleznik & D. Moment iv. xiii. 473 They provided models of the inquiring, experimenting, mode of leadership and change management. 1980 19 120 The management functions included relate to problem management, change management, project scheduling and tracking, network control, and network configuration. 1989 M. Ross 190 Other features of change management were not recognized, including the time it takes to embed changes in institutions.., and challenging avoidance. 2006 20 Apr. 41/1 (advt.) You will need to demonstrate a track record in the delivery of change management and experience in managing information systems. 1864 2 July 978/1 He had given notice to a correspondent of his change of address. 1892 17 Dec. 10/4 I..filled in the usual change-of-address form. 1950 ‘S. Ransome’ viii. 84 Miss Ashley had left a change-of-address card with the branch post office. 2008 E. Quinn et al. v. 181 The was no necessity on her part to notify the Department of a change of address. 1855 C. S. Cross 12 (table) Change point. 1867 A. Steinmetz iv. 12 When the mercury in its downward course has passed the true change-point (29.95) rain, if it has not fallen, is to be expected in its rising again above it. 1937 A. 159 58 There is evidence to show that it is associated with the magnetic change-point of these alloys. 1971 58 509 Inference about the change-point from cumulative sum tests. 2010 4 1082 The detection aspect of the change-point problem attracted greater attention than its counterpart of estimation. 2013 110 984/2 The difference in cover on either side of this change point is statistically significant. 1882 19 Nov. 13/5 The little change purses which are sold in stores all over the City. 1967 ‘D. Shannon’ (1968) xv. 218 An old-fashioned change purse, with double compartments. 1997 J. Owen 3 Little old ladies cause endless delays in the check out queues as they count out the pennies from those little black leather change purses with silver clips. 1879 452 The change-ratio is the ratio of the new value to the old. 1883 A. Grey in 1 Feb. 320/2 The multiplier..or change-ratio as it has been called by Professor James Thompson, is..the number of the new units of velocity equivalent to one of the old units. 2015 R. L. Claassen v. 77 Change in turnout is captured as a change ratio. society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > bell-ringer > [noun] 1756 26 Oct. Thomas Townley, Change-Ringer, will Dine every Change-Ringer at Acton, at his own Expence, who rings the first Seven Hundred and Twenty of Royal Bob. 1884 18 Oct. 501/3 The churchwarden, the lay impropriator, and the change-ringers have done far more evil than revolution and bigotry combined. 2002 2 Aug. 789/3 The lack of experienced change ringers in the band. society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun] > going through all the changes 1756 24 Jan. Change Ringing, when in Infancy, The Peals were short and plain. 1872 H. T. Ellacombe iii. 31 Change-ringing..exercises the mind and body at the same time. 1993 7 Nov. (Travel section) 13/2 Teams of serious bell ringers come out in force to gladden the Sabbath with protracted bouts of change-ringing. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > room for keeping clothes or dressing 1886 May 236/3 The run or incline from the change room up to the stable floor was built in the following manner. 1897 14 A new change room... Students may leave their farm clothes and boots in this room. 1956 9 Apr. 40/1 Access..is through a change room, a change of clothing and shoes being obligatory. 2007 C. M. Roach vi. 122 I hear stories of one manager grabbing at the breasts of a dancer in the change room. society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [adjective] > types of cogs or gears > enabling gear change society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > which allows change of speed or direction > parts of 1881 122/2 Change speed and differential driving-gear for bicycles. 1907 17 Aug. 7/5 For the next [cycle] tour that I make in company I shall insist on all machines being fitted with the useful change-speed. 1922 20 June 8/5 The change-speed lever provides four forward positions.., a neutral and a reverse. 2002 G. Robson 15 The big changes were a new type of gearbox and change-speed mechanism. 2008 A. Steimel ix. 137 In street-bound vehicles these problems are overcome by the clutch..and the change-speed gear. 1648 i. 5 'Tis almost Change-time, let's away. 1668 J. Dryden 5 When his famous Poem first came out in the year 1660, I have seen them reading it in the midst of Change-time. 1703 in W. Nicholson (1809) V. at Royal Exchange For a quarter of an hour before twelve the Exchange bell shall ring, as a signal of change time. 1772 W. O'Brien i. 22 India stock is up six per cent already, and expected to be as much more by Change-time to-morrow. 1814 26 144 The required speeds, both of travelling and twisting motions, are adjustable by change wheels. 1925 Feb. 266/2 Almost any type of thread can be cut on the tool with a set of change wheels. 2001 186 112/4 The combinations of change wheels I have are..diverse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). changev.Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French changer. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman changir, chaunger, chaungier, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French changier, Anglo-Norman and Middle French changer (French changer ) to alter, modify, or transform (a thing), to substitute one thing for (another), to trade (one thing) for another, to exchange (things) with another person, to undergo alteration, to exchange money for other coins of equal value (all 12th cent.), to give up (a thing) in order to replace it with something else (late 13th cent. or earlier in changer pur ), to give (money in one currency) in exchange for (money in another currency) (early 14th cent. or earlier), to pale or blush (second half of the 14th cent.), to put on (a different set of clothes) (late 14th cent. or earlier), < post-classical Latin cambiare to exchange, to give in exchange, to obtain by exchange (8th cent.; frequently from 11th cent. in British sources), to change money (11th cent.; frequently from 13th cent. in British sources; < cambium exchange: see change n.), replacing classical Latin cambīre to barter, exchange (2nd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also to change money (9th cent.; from 12th cent. in British sources), to transform (13th cent. in a British source), apparently < the Gaulish base shown by Gaulish cambion (noun), the exact sense of which is uncertain and disputed (suggestions include ‘act of changing’ and ‘something crooked’), probably < the same Celtic base as Gaulish cambo- (in place names), Early Irish camm, Old Welsh, Welsh cam, all in sense ‘bent, crooked’, perhaps further related to Hellenistic Greek σκαμβός, in the same sense, all apparently of non-Indo-European origin.Foreign-language parallels. Compare Old Occitan cambiar , camjar , chanjar , etc. (all a1150; 11th cent. as cambjar ), Catalan canviar (mid 14th cent.; late 13th cent. as †cambiar ), Spanish cambiar (12th cent.), Portuguese cambiar (13th cent.), Italian cambiare (late 12th cent.), (now archaic or literary) cangiare (13th cent.). Specific forms. In Middle English prefixed and unprefixed forms of the past participle are attested (see y- prefix). On the phonological developments shown by the β. forms see discussion in A. J. Aitken Older Scots Vowels (2002) 57, 61. Note on the classical Latin verb. Classical Latin cambīre was apparently influenced in its inflectional forms by association with ancient Greek κάμπτειν to bend (see phonocamptic adj.). I. Senses relating to substitution or exchange. 1. the world > time > change > exchange > exchange, change for [verb (transitive)] the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > substitute [verb (transitive)] c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1940) 70 Þet tu naldest changin [a1250 Titus chaungen] þet stat þet tu liuest in forte cwen icrunet. a1325 (c1280) (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 473 (MED) Hit [sc. the Jewish race] shal..chaunge hare lawe, And þanne hi shulleþ to cristendom..drawe. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vii. l. 747 He schal his places change And seche manye londes strange. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. (Caxton) (1877) lf. 63 The same herbes..were sent to the kinges closid and sealled with their sealles, to thentent that they shulde not be chaunged. 1540 R. Morison tr. J. L. Vives (new ed.) sig. Gv He may not, throughe the foule stinke of sinnes, be driuen to change his lodgynge. 1569 T. Blague 246 Let not seruaunts feare muche to chaunge their maisters, least the last be woorser than the first. 1581 R. Mulcaster xli. 253 Which for a better liuing will chaung his colledge. 1596 M. Drayton sig. K2v Men change the ayre, but seldome change their care. 1611 Gen. xli. 14 He shaued himselfe, and changed his raiment. View more context for this quotation 1661 R. Poyntz i. 8 A new Religion, if it took the People in the head, would draw them on to the desire of changing their King, or Government. a1669 ( Indenture Fotheringay in (1846) VI. 1415/2 Yf they be found faulty or unable, then they [sc. the workmen] shall be chawnghyt, and other takyn. 1711 A. Pope 26 Their weak Heads..'Twixt Sense and Nonsense daily change their Side. 1737 A. Pope i. i. 155 They change their weekly Barber, weekly News. 1807 2nd Ser. Jan. 89 It will be found necessary to change the wheel N, to make such alteration in the twist as the size of the yarn may require. 1888 C. M. Yonge x. 89 I had to go to Overbury to change the books at the library. 1950 R. P. Warren iv. 141 Changing the sheets would do no good, the mattress was all soaked, too. 2011 2 Feb. 7/2 Scaffolding is now used for even routine jobs, including changing a light bulb. the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > supplanting or replacement > supplant, replace [verb (transitive)] > with a substitute c1300 (c1250) (Cambr.) (1966) l. 494 Ne chaunge luue for no newe. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 11391 Manion stilleliche hor armes awei caste, & chaungede hom vor herigaus. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1235 And swore so depe to..chaunge hire for no newe. c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio (1924) l. 301 (MED) Now haste thow loste much of thy bewte And with deth chaunged immortalyte. 1535 W. Marshall tr. M. Bucer sig. Fv He did cast Hirene into prison,..in which she made a wretched ende, & changed this lyfe with deth. c1540 (?a1400) (2002) f. 116v He may be chaungit..for sum choise other Þat is takon of Troy. 1565 J. Hall f. 38v We shoulde kepe, an olde frend true And neuer change hym for no newe. 1600 W. Shakespeare ii. ii. 120 Who will not change a Rauen for a doue? View more context for this quotation 1661 T. Forde Love's Labyrinth iii. i. 30 in Here he unloads the burthen of his thoughts, And changes cares for recreation. 1713 A. Pope 10 Here Jove..Might change Olympus for a nobler Hill. 1768 A. Tucker I. ii. 222 You will ask whether..I would be content to change my situation with his? 1834 Feb. 77/1 Transformed from a captain to a counsellor; changing the red coat for the black gown, and the grenadier's cap for the forensic wig. 1863 J. S. B. Monsell 147 I..changed my hopes for fears. 1924 50 121/2 I tire of her and I take another companion. Sometimes you change wine for beer, is it not so? 1976 ‘J. Herriot’ (1977) xxi. 179 Stewie had changed his dilapidated Austin Seven for a large rust-encrusted Ford V Eight. 2012 (Nexis) 27 Oct. 18 Paul often speaks of putting off the old life and putting on the new life, as if we were changing old clothes for new ones. the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > substitute [verb (transitive)] > for another of same 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart II. clxv. f. clxxxv These four rode night and day..: the chaunged many horses. 1567 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin f. 33v It oftentimes chaunged maisters. 1663 J. D. tr. H. de Péréfixe de Beaumont iii. 345 Most part of the Rents having changed Owners, or been parted, he must of force trouble an infinite number of Families. 1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger 22 If you change ends, still the Air will rush out at the upper end. 1752 Game at Cricket in Nov. 581/1 The bowler..shall bowl to the number four [balls] before he changes wickets. 1842 Feb. 232/1 They like variety, and change husbands easier than you'd change your gloves. 1884 (Weekly ed.) 1 Feb. 5/3 The Simla..after changing owners, was converted into a sailing ship. 1930 23 Oct. 3/3 Yorkshire gained another try.., and thus changed ends two points in front. 1976 T. Stoppard 67 The barns shook with the dancing farmhands changing partners to a fiddler's call. 2009 S. Hurst iv. 114 The Republicans took eight seats from the Democrats (and a ninth when Richard Shelby changed allegiances). 2. a. the world > time > change > exchange > exchange, change for [verb (transitive)] > interchange c1300 (?c1225) (Cambr.) (1901) 1052 We schulle chaungi wede: Haue her cloþes myne, & tak me þi sclauyne. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xii. ix. 619 In sittinge abroode þe male & þe female chaungiþ stemnes [L. vices mutat]. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 168 Eche one plyght their trouthe to other, and so they chonged horse and harneyse. a1500 (a1450) (Trin. Cambr.) l. 3396 (MED) Vppe they rose..And chaungyd horse. ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives ii. iv. sig. X.iv She..counsayled her husbande to change rayment with her, and steale his way. 1598 W. Shakespeare v. ii. 238 Will you vouchsafe with me to change a word? View more context for this quotation 1603 R. Knolles 458 (After they had changed a few bullets) [they] bourded a tall ship of the Turkes. 1724 T. Salmon II. iii. 921 The Lord Cavendish had offer'd Russel to change Cloths with him, and favour his Escape. a1763 W. Shenstone (1764) I. 45 Forbid by fate to change one transient glance! 1820 W. Scott I. iii. 126 Her faithful attendants changed expressive looks with each other. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Dora in (new ed.) II. 35 If you..change a word with her he calls his wife. 1909 29 May 16/1 His mammy used to scare him with tales of the potent ‘conju-man’ who..changed skins with the devil. 1951 J. R. Carlson viii. 149 Moustafa and Sabri changed glances. the world > time > change > exchange > exchange, change for [verb (transitive)] > interchange > with someone else a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 751 Sir Palomydes chaunged hys harnes wyth the wounded knyght. 1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus sig. Diii An Irissheman woulde not chaunge his nacion with an Italian. 1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger ix. 65 Neither would he chaunge his state with moste welthie and ryche kynges. 1609 W. Shakespeare xxix. sig. C3 I skorne to change my state with Kings. View more context for this quotation 1650 Bp. J. Taylor ii. §6 136 Those thousands with whom thou wouldest not for any interest change thy fortune and condition. 1761 W. Kenrick tr. J. J. Rousseau I. x. 36 Surely I have little reason to complain, when I would not change my situation with the greatest monarch upon earth. 1781 J. Stonhouse (ed. 2) 10 Do you not feel Something within, which makes you wish you could change your Condition, even with the Brute, that perisheth. 1857 Apr. 228/2 Hurrah, then, for the life of a mendicant! I would not change my condition with the canon of San Isidio. 1966 18 June 1544/2 Would a consultant earning £4,000 a year like to change his position with a general practitioner who may be earning £5,000 a year? 1994 10 Feb. a8 It was a hard life but it was a sweet life. I wouldn't change it with anybody. society > trade and finance > barter > [verb (transitive)] a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xxvii. 10 Abeest..þat may be offred to þe lord..may not be chaunged. a1500 (Sloane) (1890) 51 (MED) Change those [cattle] þat be not good to kepe. 1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara (rev. ed.) 33 Wat shall we say & speake of prelates, whiche..wast, chaunge, sell, and spende the churche goodes. 1630 H. Hexham tr. Points in sig. Ciiv [To have] liberty..that they may..sell, transport, change, barter their goods, as they thinke good and fitting. 1779 E. Wolff at Ombytter v. To change, to exchange, to barter, to truck, to chop or swap one thing for another. 1852 R. S. Surtees vii. xxxix. 212 He was continually chopping and changing his horses. society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > exchange c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvi. l. 129 (MED) [Jesus] caste adown her stalles, Þat..chaungeden any moneye. c1470 W. Wey 2 (MED) Take none Englysch golde with yow from Brugies..for the most part of the wey they wyl nat chavnge hyt. 1591 R. Greene sig. D4 The poore man..suspected nothing till he had soulde a pecke of meale, and offered to change money, and then hee found his purse bottomlesse. 1631 T. Dekker sig. F3 Drawing out a whole handfull of gold, told them, he had no white mony, & they could not change any one peece. 1673 J. Faldo (new ed.) iii. 34 Suppose, whether in changing a shilling, he hath wrong done him if he receive but two groats for it and right if he receive three? 1728 No. 19. (1729) 209 A poor Shop-keeper might be able to change a Guinea..when a Customer comes for a Crown's worth of Goods. 1826 W. Scott 17 July (1930) 204 When we change a guinea, the shillings escape as things of small account. 1876 F. G. Burnaby xii. 105 The Commercial Bank would change my English gold. 1935 6 73 The consuls ordered that no one should change money. 1953 R. St. John iv. 120 The reporter changed a twenty-dollar bill for twenty clean ones. 2002 T. Pinchuck et al. (ed. 3) 794 The rand is legal tender in Swaziland, so you won't have to change any money. the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > give in exchange the world > time > change > exchange > exchange, change for [verb (transitive)] > give in exchange 1609 I. 1 Sam. x. 9 God changed [L. inmutavit] vnto him another hart. 1611 W. Cowper ii. 290 Our present euils are crosses and afflictions, euils of their owne nature, being fruits of sinne, yet changed vnto vs by the suffering of Christ. 3. To make an exchange. the world > time > change > exchange > [verb (intransitive)] a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 243 Þe kyng seide þat his owne haburgoun was to schort and heet Archebanus doo of his habergoun and chaunge wiþ hym. a1555 H. Latimer (1562) ii. f. 3 He chaungeth with vs, he taketh our synnes and wickednesse frome vs, and geueth vnto vs his holynesse, rightuousnes, iustice. 1618 B. Holyday iv. v. sig. Lv Come prethee, Cheiromantes, slip off thine againe and change with him. 1794 G. Colman i. 11 Should a knave..propose to chop natures with me, I woud'nt change with him, tho' his face were as white as a colliflower. 1805 R. Southey i. xvii. 178 Ere we part, change with me! 1869 A. Trollope I. xxiv. 199 ‘By George, I should like to change with you,’ said Lord Chiltern. 1989 29 Jan. 10 e ‘Overall I have the best job in the country,’ says Eisner. ‘I wouldn't change with anybody.’ c1450 (c1386) G. Chaucer (Fairf. 16) (1879) l. 1875 Lucresse..was of love so trewe Ne in hir wille she chaunged for no newe. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry (1971) xxxiv. 58 Youre husbond to whome ye haue promysed feith and trouthe, and ye ought not to chaunge for better ne werse. 1566 f. cxxxviv Sindrie persounis hauand quhite money, will not change for gold. 1613 S. Purchas vi. x. 518 That bill of Dower holdeth the husband in awe, which else would make a slaue of his wife, or still change for yonger flesh. 1651 S. Sheppard v. 119 Oh! that my Martiallesse were kind, I count me happy in my Gyves, And would not change for thousand Lives. a1704 T. Brown (1720) 333 Thou wou'd'st not change for what is New, For Mexico, or for Peru. 1880 E. J. Worboise xiv. 155 You're the woman for me, and I wouldn't change for all the beauties in the world. 1936 E. R. Weismiller 60 Though the close blue-silver gloom Affords his journey little room, He would not change for open air. 1479 Earl Rivers tr. (Caxton) iii. iii Is ther ony persone that aughte wil to haue oon playsant and delectable night in dremes, and therfore to finde the sempiternale paines, and so change for a playsant dreme so litle enduring, to haue the paines of hell, which be perpetuel. 1567 J. Maplet f. 13v In Indie, saith Isidore, there is neyther Lead nor Brasse of his owne, therefore it chaungeth for his owne Marchandise (as with Gemmes and Margarets). 1616 B. Jonson Forrest ix. 8 in I But might I of Iove's Nectar sup, I would not change for thine. 1640 in F. Beaumont sig. I3v When we have try'd each other, If she better like another, Let her quickly change for me. 4. a. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > changing clothing > change clothing [verb (intransitive)] the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > clean the person [verb (transitive)] > change baby's nappy the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > changing clothing > change clothing [verb (intransitive)] > change into evening dress a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 1017 A jantillwoman..brought hym a shirte of small lynen clothe; but he chaunged nat there. 1600 Serm. against Fleshly Lustes in H. Roberts sig. I7v If they were in our garments, we might haue them washed out, or change and put on such as shoulde bee cleane. 1653 R. Pemell 3 If persons of years do live nastily and not change often, they soon become lousey. 1715 145 Some body telling him that our Hands did swell with the Irons, he said, He did not care if our Hearts did swell: Nay, they would not let them be taken off so much as to Change, in three Weeks Time. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Let. Jan. in (1847) II. 723 After dinner I christianized myself, that is, washed and changed. a1847 R. B. Peake (1885) ii. v. 12 Miss Rosalie is coming directly, sir, but you will have plenty of time to change. 1912 in P. Farrer (1997) 35 For evening wear at home I generally change into ladies' Louis-heeled shoes. 1956 S. Plath 14 Aug. (2000) 255 Changed out of sweaty things to bathingsuit. 1970 ‘D. Halliday’ iii. 23 On Ibiza, the Lloyds don't wear DJs except for a party, though of course everyone changes. 2002 B. Hoey i. 10 The Queen and Prince Philip simply change into something more comfortable. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > changing clothing > change clothing [verb (reflexive)] a1486 in (1900) 57 68 When masse is done then they schall goo un to ther chambris and chaunge hem. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. (?1560) lxiiii. sig. Piv Than the kyng entred into a lytel chaumbre and there dyd chaunge him. a1593 C. Marlowe (1633) iv. sig. H4v I change my selfe twice a-day. 1603 T. Thayre 49 The patient ought to change his chamber sometimes.., changing himselfe in fresh apparell well aired. 1648 T. Gage xx. 170 I went to my house, changed my self and lay downe a while to rest. 1820 M. Edgeworth 20 Dec. (1971) 225 Red breeches footman..informed us that ‘My lady was just in from a long walk and gone to change herself.’ 1866 4 Aug. (Suppl.) I..washed me and changed myself—all of my clothing except my singlet and stockings. 1919 L. C. Odencrantz x. 278 She first got into a candy factory, but left after a month's trial. ‘You have to change yourself so often. You have to exchange your shoes, for they get all covered with the drippings from the chocolate.’ 2010 E. Lee 108 Go and change yourself at once! Letty shall burn those clothes. 1818 S. E. Ferrier I. xxi. 294 I hope..you remember to Change your feet after Walking. 1857 E. B. Ramsay 38 She did not change her feet when she came in from the wet. 1895 I. Maclaren vii. i. 230 The head of the house was then exhorted by his women folk to ‘change his feet’ if he had happened to walk through a burn on his way. 1932 13 Feb. 17/2 I was glad to ‘change my feet’ at the hotel. 1825 W. P. Dewees i. i. xvii. 99 The child should be carefully protected against all unnecessary wet; and when it is discovered to be in this situation, it should be changed as quickly as possible. 1922 D. H. Lawrence 23 Joyce, you must be patient. I'm just changing Annabel. 1958 ‘C. Fremlin’ vii. 59 There hadn't been time to give Michael his orange juice, or change him. 2005 M. Kennedy (2006) i. 5 Matthew would undoubtedly be calling me from his crib, and he and Lydia would both need changing. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > changing clothing > change clothing [verb (transitive)] > change clothing 1846 Feb. 193/1 I'll go and get changed, and then I'll finish what I was going to tell you. 1927 Aug. 163/2 Get changed into working-gear unless you want to muck-up that fancy suit of yours. 1979 R. Cameron Diary 7 Apr. in (2003) iv. 112 We had a hot shower, got changed and went to the shows. 1992 M. Bracewell ii. 118 Catherine..had just got changed out of her work clothes. 2010 S. Thirsk (2011) 251 They'd been getting changed and doing each other's make-up on the coach. 1758 14 Sept. 260/1 To appoint persons to wash and get up all the linen, and to see that all the beds are changed once a month. 1839 IV. 133 One of the pupil's beds was soaking wet, and Mrs. Hayes ran up..and changed the bed. 1873 10 July [The rooms] are scrubbed..twice a week, and beds changed as often. 1956 2 July /4 Some patients are unable to control their muscles and their beds are often changed several times during a day. 2003 C. Birch iv. 69 ‘Where's your mam?’ Dad asked her. ‘Upstairs changing the beds.’ 1667 Duke of Newcastle 5 [In the Mannage] a Horse that is..firm and Obedient to the Hand and Heels, Gallops the Field, and Changes..just as you will. 1754 R. Berenger tr. C. Bourgelat xii. 86 If in changing to the Right they are too eager to come upon the strait Line..demand of them a Demi-volte to the Left. 1832 Dec. 133 Most horses lead with the off leg;..if..the horse changes from the leg to which he has been accustomed, it becomes very perceptible to the rider. 1946 M. C. Self 132 When a horse is asked to change from one lead to the other at a gallop..he is said to be doing a ‘flying change’. 2014 A. Kottas-Heldenberg 166 The canter should remain in the same tempo... Looking down to see if the horse has changed can cause him to speed up. 6. 1764 5 Mar. 230/3 We changed coaches seven different times. 1839 16 Apr. 7/2 The arrangements of the railway make it indispensible that travellers shall expose themselves to the chance [of being run over], at least in passing Malines, where they change trains. 1852 5 Mar. Mr Thomas Newsome.., after changing trains at Huddersfield, found that he was travelling in the wrong direction. 1916 A. T. de Mattos tr. M. Maeterlinck 40 This market-place haunted for ever the memory of those who had seen it, were it but once, while waiting to change trains. 1977 9 137 The routes were so organized that the majority of workers had to change buses at the centre often with a wait of up to 15 minutes. 2015 (Nexis) 8 Apr. 22 Imagine flying from London to Sydney without having to stop over to change planes or refuel. society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > change vehicles 1848 (ed. 4) 69 (table) Greenhill junc. sta. Change here for Edinburgh, Glasgow, or Carlisle. 1879 ‘H. Haldane’ (ed. 2) 38 Ye mun change here for Jarrow. 1939 M. Lowry Let. Sept. in (1995) I. 224 As the English stationmaster said—all change here for Allshot, Ballshot, Cockshot, Halfshot, &——the whole bloody lot. 1971 J. Gardam xiv. 125 She must have come in on a bus to Cleveland Spa from the farm, changing at Brotton or Skinningrove or somewhere. 2005 (Nexis) 17 July 14 For the past year, she had, without fail, taken the Northern Line from there down to Leicester Square and changed for the Piccadilly Line to Knightsbridge. 1890 10 Aug. 1/4 The engineer waited for the red light to change to white. 1937 13 Sept. 80/2 (advt.) You won't have to wait for traffic lights to change when you want to cross Main Street. 1964 R. Gover 85 Some university student came whipping around the corner.., trying to make the corner before the amber light changed to a redlight. 2008 3 Apr. (G2 section) 20/2 There's a nearside cycle lane leading to a green cycle box, so the instruction seems to be to wait dutifully in the gutter until the lights change. society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > drive or operate a motor vehicle > operate clutch and gears 1895 27 June You can change your gear according to the roads and wind while you are riding. 1902 S. F. Edge & C. Jarrott in A. C. Harmsworth et al. (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) xv. 327 Change to a lower gear at once. 1969 June 90/2 It would be necessary at this point (or before) to change to a lower gear to prevent engine stall. 2004 M. Oke 204 An old dark green 1938 Morris 8, two-door, top speed 45mph, which you had to double de-clutch when you changed gear. II. Senses relating to alteration, variation, or mutability. 9. the world > time > change > change [verb (transitive)] c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1934) 8 Olibrius.., þa he þis iherde, changede his chere. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 311 He ne miȝte here herte change, þat heo to sorwe ne drou. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vi. l. 1994 His forme he changeth sodeinly. ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius (BL Add. 10340) (1868) v. pr. vi. l. 5083 Þis dyuyne prescience ne chaungeþ nat þe nature ne þe proprete of þinges. ?a1475 (1922) 54 (MED) Amend þe, man, and chaunge þi mood! 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. f. lxiiiiv/1 A lytell he changed his countenance. 1583 G. Babington v. 222 So times are changed to and fro, and chaunging times haue chaunged vs too. 1605 Z. Jones tr. P. le Loyer ii. f. 5v Malach, in the Hebrew, signifieth a Messenger... The Arabians doe a little change the Ebrew word, and do call an Angel, Melech. 1651 T. Hobbes ii. xxvi. 145 No errour of a subordinate Judge, can change the Law. 1734 J. Hutchinson 288 It may also be necessary to change the Sounds of a few of our Letters a little. 1790 W. Paley ii. 21 He so far changed his purpose as to go back through Macedonia. 1825 C. Waterton 196 Should this man chance to acquire a fortune, he soon changes his habits. 1874 J. R. Green vii. §8. 430 With the defeat of the Armada began a series of victories which..changed the political aspect of the world. a1931 C. Eliot (1935) x. 254 There arose four new sects which entirely changed the character of Japanese Buddhism. 1977 L. Meyer iv. 26 Washington is full of people..who once had..ideas about changing things. 2014 T. McCulloch 121 The next night he brought me a book... ‘It'll change your life Helen, I swear to God.’ the world > time > change > change [verb (intransitive)] ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 30 Naut ne changeð [c1230 Corpus Cambr. nawiht ne changeð, a1250 Nero nout ne chaunge ȝe] bute þe salmes & þe oreisuns. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Otho) (1963) 1892 Þo changede [c1275 Calig. twineden] hire þonkes. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) Prol. l. 119 (MED) The world is changed overal. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) (1996) ii. 3631 On þe fifte day changed þer wynde. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 779 To chaungen gan the colour in hir face. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk (Gough) (1905) 112 (MED) Tymes byn changet, men byn worsont. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart I. f. lxiiiiv Whan the french kyng sawe the englysshmen, his blode chaunged. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens iii. lxxxviii. 441 The flowers be fayre, of an incarnate or liuely colour changing upon blewe. 1611 Mal. iii. 6 I am the Lord, I change not. View more context for this quotation 1688 T. D'Urfey iii. 39 I'll..laugh and lye at Ease, let the Weather change as it will. 1714 A. Pope (new ed.) ii. 14 Colours that change whene'er they wave their Wings. 1787 I. 108 On a sudden, his behaviour changed. 1830 Ld. Tennyson 91 Nothing will die; All things will change. 1860 19 Feb. 61/2 Churches and nations change very slowly. 1920 J. A. Cull 13 May 61/2 At first she listened to me... Then she changed. She flouted me. 1922 13 May 61/2 Now have you really changed much? No; bit older, thinner, lines. 1972 H. Arendt 116 It is no secret that things have changed since then. 2016 J. Seigel (ed. 2) x. 179 The science of visualization has been changing rapidly in recent years. the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > be transformed [verb (intransitive)] c1300 (c1250) (Cambr.) (1966) 306 Ha..chaungeþ fram water into blod. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. ii. 1270 It is moyste and chaungeþ to þe matiere of ayre. a1438 (1940) i. 164 (MED) Þe eyr..xulde be so sone chongyd in-to clowdys. 1566 W. Painter tr. O. Landi ii. f. 56 The digestion made, they [sc. Pursline and Lettice] chaunge into good blodde, and so increase heate. 1599 W. Shakespeare iv. iv. 115 Our solemne himnes to sullen dyrges change . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. iii. 5 He chang'd almost into another man. View more context for this quotation 1668 Duchess of Newcastle (ed. 2) x. viii. 141 The Flesh of the Body..changes from Flesh, into a Mixt Corrupted Matter. 1757 tr. J. F. Henckel 263 We observe lime-stone to be subject to destruction and resolution, from which come highly subtile earths, which, as here, may change to a formal stone. 1763 H. Walpole IV. vii. 289 He felt the delicious contrast of hill and valley changing imperceptibly into each other. 1842 T. C. Paris Let. 15 July in (1843) iii. 24 The weather has changed from intolerable heat to showers and fresh breezes. 1894 3 June 17/1 The chrysalis has changed into a butterfly. 1942 L. D. Rich vii. 201 The low whispering rustle changes to a roar. 2008 A. Adiga 292 I changed from a hunted criminal into a solid pillar of Bangalorean society. the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)] 1340 (1866) 242 (MED) Hi wes ychonged in-to an ymage of zalt. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. iii. xiv. 103 Þe vertu þat turneþ and chaungiþ þe substauns of þe seed into þe substauns of al þe parties of þe plaunte. c1400 (?c1380) (1920) l. 1258 Þat sumtyme wer gentyle; Now ar chaunged to chorles. c1450 (1900) 222 (MED) Þei schal be chaunged..fro fylthe to clennes, fro synne to grace. 1534 N. Udall 121v The gerundiue may very elegantly be changed into a nown participle. a1566 R. Edwards (1576) 80 The bodie subiect is, to fickle Fortunes power,..And death in tyme doeth chaunge it to a clodde of claye. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. i. 114 Cambio is chang'd into Lucentio. View more context for this quotation 1653 R. Austen 83 Manure (or good soyle) is one of those things which changes wild plants, into a mild & pleasant nature. 1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in 361 Chang'd to a Bird, and sent to flitt in Air. 1750 T. Nugent tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu II. xxviii. xxv. 279 The practice of judiciary combat had this advantage, that it was apt to change a general into a particular quarrel. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere in (new ed.) I. 157 You changed a wholesome heart to gall. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato IV. 41 They would change the patriarchal or dynastic form into aristocracy or monarchy. 1912 ‘R. Connor’ ii. v. 236 A glance at his young brother's pale and woe-stricken face changed his wrath to pity. 1979 July 109/1 That happens in ordinary radioactivity, where an up quark is changed into a down quark or vice versa. 2005 E. Mordden v. 110 A garden set was changed into a ballroom with the addition of ten colossal columns. the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [verb (intransitive)] > break (of boy's voice) a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. v. 301 Whan children voice chaungiþ it is a tokene of puberte. a1500 (a1477) Black Bk. (Soc. of Antiquaries) in A. R. Myers (1959) 136 Yomen of chapell..growing from the children of chapell by succession of age, and after that theire voicez change..etyn in the hall at the chapell bourd. 1595 sig. C5 Why doth the voyce chaunge in men and women,..in men when they begin to yeeld seede, in women when their breasts begin to grow. 1658 E. Phillips 188 Q. When doth the voice change in men? A. At fourteen, when they begin to feel their concupisence. 1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon II. 51 The voice changes into a deeper tone; the beard begins to appear. 1812 A. Chalmers (new ed.) IV. 165 On his voice changing at the usual period of life, he..came forth one of the first extempore performers in this country. 1966 H. Lichtenstein in H. Ruitenbeek 39 He may be teased a little when his voice changes or when he shaves for the first time. 2016 (Nexis) 15 Sept. b1 He..lived at the [cathedral choir] school until his voice changed at the age of 13. the world > time > change > change [verb (intransitive)] > pass into state, become > get into specified condition 1583 P. Barrough ii. xiv. 74 The whole body seemeth to be of a greater bignes then it should naturallye be, also there colour chaungeth whyter then it was wont to do. 1604 N. F. 21 The fruite..wil then be so tender..that the most part of them will change blacke. 1660 R. Sharrock 128 Endive..by this means will change whitish. 1754 E. Button tr. Mocles 169 Upon this information the king dismissed all the people, his countenance changed pale. 1806 B. M'Mahon 171 It will be proper to slide some of the glasses open a little way,..shutting all close if the weather changes cold and cloudy. 1958 60 85 Pupae usually changed black and dried up if they were left untouched. the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > manifest itself [verb (intransitive)] > change colour the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > [verb (intransitive)] > change colour 1600 W. Shakespeare v. i. 139 He chaunges more and more, I thinke he be angry indeed. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. ii. 70 Looke ye how they change: Their cheekes are paper. View more context for this quotation a1625 J. Fletcher (1639) i. sig. Cv How she changes. 10. the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > in different position a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 78 (MED) From þe cherl & þe child nov chaunge we oure tale, For i wol of þe werwolf..speke. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clvi. 1052 Seed schal nouȝt ben ychaunged oute of colde place into hoot. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 511 No lengthe of tyme or deth may..chaunge my corage to oother place. a1439 J. Lydgate (Bodl. 263) i. l. 5152 (MED) Which is a thyng doolful..From his knyhthod..That euer a woman sholde his herte chaunge. tr. Palladius (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 131 Ffro febul lond, ek change hem yf thou mowe. 1572 L. Mascall 7 Ye doe replant or chaunge your Pepin trees from place to place. 1660 2 Another of the Crew in the very instant caught hold of Mr. Turvills right hand, to avoid whose hold, he changed his Dagger to the left. 1711 II. 1600/1 Its Bishop, Suffragan of Salerno, has changed his Residence there to another Place. 1794 J. Billingsley 102 The animals eat with greater relish, when frequently changed from one field to another. 1837 F. M. Trollope II. xi. 209 Fanny has changed her morning quarters from thence to the print-room. 1843 C. J. Lever xxx. 209 He changed all the splints and bandages to the sound leg. 1928 D. H. Lawrence (1982) v. 65 He changed his hat to his left hand. 1998 (Nexis) 29 Apr. (Sport section) 47 He changed the ball from right to left boot but the volley whizzed inches past the right hand post. the world > movement > move [verb (intransitive)] > change place or position c1390 in C. Brown (1924) 144 Hit [sc. worldly blis] chaungeþ so ofte & so sodeynly, To-day is her, to-morwe a-way. tr. Palladius (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 133 Ffor man and tre fro febil lond to good, Who can, and wol not chaunge, I holde hym wood. a1500 ( J. Lydgate (1934) ii. 617 To forein blode þat it not ne choinge [read chaunge], The crowne to put in non hondis straunge. 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton (new ed.) f. xlviiiv Yf a person or a vycar..dyeth or chaungeth. 1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara (rev. ed.) iv. xv. f. 152 This worldling, that..chaungeth from house to house, and contrey to contrey: hee shall neuer notwithstanding content him self. 1614 W. Lithgow sig. av Ah I, poore I, distress'd, Oft changing too and fro. 1778 R. Orme II. xii. 619 Where the river changes from the curve it has made. 1844 C. Dickens xliii. 492 To let us change and change about. 1879 P. H. Chavasse 178 False [labour] pains are generally migratory—changing from place to place—first attacking..one part, then another. 2007 (Nexis) 11 Sept. a6 Breastfed babies routinely change from one side to the other. the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > pass through phase [verb (intransitive)] a1382 (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxvii. 12 The fool as the moone is chaungid [L. mutatur]. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) (1891) l. 5333 It shal chaungen..as the moone. 1517 S. Hawes (1928) xviii. 83 The mynde of men chaungeth as the mone. 1597 W. Shakespeare ii. i. 152 The Moone..That monthlie changeth in her circled orbe. View more context for this quotation 1693 W. Robertson (new ed.) 322 The moon changeth; Luna coit, vel novatur. 1736 (Royal Soc.) 39 70 The first Day of November at Midnight,..the Moon changed. 1881 Nov. 810 When the moon changes, I have the fits. 1943 1 July 7/2 The nearer midnight the moon changes the better the prospects are for good weather. 2014 52 51/1 It was clear there was a predictable pattern in the way the Moon changed each month. †12. 1579 T. Lupton i. 4 Oft thunder doth turne and chaunge Wines maruelouslie. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault vi. xxii. 790 Such [wines] as are..kept in cellars lying vpon the north, doe not sower at all: as if it were..by the heate, that they were changed and corrupted. 1650 J. French tr. Paracelsus Of Nature of Things 27 in tr. M. Sędziwóg If they [sc. menstruous women] doe handle the foresaid things.., they corrupt them. For Wine is thereby changed, and become thick, Beer, and Mead grow sowre, Vineger grows dead. 1823 C. Mackenzie 251/2 Thunder will turn and often change wines. 1882 27 May 406/1 Last night, what with the lightning or the thunder, or both on 'em together, all the milk in my dairy was changed. 1596 W. Phillip tr. ii. sig. E All wines doe oftentimes change in the rising of Charles waine. 1607 W. Vaughan (ed. 3) ii. 19 At what time are wine and Beere readie to turne and chaunge? 1642 H. Parker 27 By reason of want of Gage, Lees, Leakage, and other misfortunes (admitting that Wines do not change, or sour) the Vintners cannot draw above 220 gallons. 1871 Sept. 208/2 Milk changes with so much more rapidity during thunder storms than at other times. Phrases P1. Phrases relating to behaviour, attitude, or allegiance. a. the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > manifest itself [verb (intransitive)] > change colour the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > [verb (intransitive)] > change colour c1380 (1879) l. 2184 (MED) Al chaungede hure hew & mod. a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) 4210 Soone bigon he chaunge hew. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (Nero) vii. l. 93 Withe þis þe knycht al changit hew. c1550 (1830) i. 813 Clariodus..changit hew alyte. 1590 E. Spenser iii. v. sig. Gg4v All suddeinly abasht shee chaunged hew, And with sterne horror backward gan to start. 1679 E. Sherburne tr. Seneca iv. 104 She changes hue, A show'r of Tears does her pale Cheeks bedew. 1720 J. Gay 330 She frequent look'd behind, and chang'd her hue. 1853 E. M. Stewart xiii. 155 It was the terrible draught..which I gave her, which had changed her hue so much. 1920 C. W. Stork tr. V. von Heidenstam II. 256 Görtz's very fair and delicate countenance changed hue. 2012 M. Hofmann tr. M. Fallada iii. 450 ‘The whole of the working class is squarely behind you.’ Frerksen changes hue. the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > manifest itself [verb (intransitive)] > change colour the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > [verb (intransitive)] > change colour c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 912 (MED) As he aloft dide expresse Wordes of Ioye or of heuynes..And face chaunged with a sodeyn siȝt. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 127 Thai changit contenans and late. ?1553 tr. Pope Pius II sig. A.iiiv He sawe the woman chaunge countenaunce. 1637 T. Heywood ii. ii. sig. C4 To change face, They say in modest Maides are signes of grace. 1699 S. Whately 40 If your Complexion will bear a Blush, you cannot read these Lines without changing Countenance. 1779 23 The hardened wretch, when before a dispenser of justice, and indubitably proved guilty of flagrant crimes, does not even change countenance. 1891 N. Gould 17 Captain Drayton changed countenance. 1991 Q. Hoare tr. S. de Beauvoir 54 Kos. told me afterwards that I'd changed countenance. the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > change one's mind [phrase] the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > respect or show respect [verb (intransitive)] > speak more respectfully 1560 J. Knox 385 Of which places it is plaine, that ye vnderstand, that in Adam we were created to gods image... But here you change your tune, and say: He hath made man like to his owne image in Christe Iesu. ?1570 W. Wager sig. Fiijv I wil make you chaunge your note Before that for your labour you get the value of a grote. 1625 S. Purchas I. iv. xvii. 601 When all men expected present and seuere castigation, the King changed his tune, highly commending his constancie and honestie. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais iv. ix. 42 I'll make him change his Note presently. 1734 tr. C. Rollin III. vii. 449 Finding that the more he declined the command the more they pressed him to accept it, he changed his note. a1761 A. Ellys (1763) II. iii. 164 The nobles, finding themselves and the whole kingdom in great distress and danger, began to change their tune, and court those whom they had despised and oppressed before. 1847 E. Brontë I. vi. 107 A beast of a servant came up..shouting... He changed his note, however, when he saw Skulker's game. 1886 R. L. Stevenson v. 44 ‘No,’ said the poor moon-calf, changing his tune at once. 1947 J. A. Roy 2 She changed her tune entirely and instead of another yowl..a smile broke forth. 2010 P. Daniels xv. 98 They changed their tune on that one pretty quickly when the docu-soap format came along. 1578 W. B. tr. Appian of Alexandria i. 13 There nothing but confusion, euery one changing & chopping into others right. 1579 T. Churchyard sig. Aa.jv Awaie light hedds, that lou's to chaunge and chopp. 1604 E. Hake 51 Though States do chop and change, As oft they change and chop indeede, Thy mind shall neuer wandring range, But constantly in things proceede. 1641 ‘Dwalphintramis’ i. 3 Popish Champions doe maintaine the bodily presence..by changing and chopping that fiat corpus. 1730 16 May Those Men..who endeavour to support Themselves in Power..only by changing and chopping Places amongst Themselves. 1763 R. Bentley 34 Custom, Reason, Fact, are chang'd and chopp'd, To all that Modern Patriots adopt. ?1775 III. xxxix. 95 I am not a man that changes and chops about, from one side to t'other. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. ii. vi. 144 You must not suppose..that I can change and chop my politics for my own purpose. 2013 (Nexis) 21 Jan. You could change and chop players and no-one would know the difference. the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > desert one's party or principles 1596 E. Spenser iv. ix. sig. I3v They change their sides, and new parts take. View more context for this quotation 1612 tr. I. Casaubon Ep. Ded. sig. A4 Two yeeres agoe being deeply indebted,..[he] changde sides, and fled vnto the aduerse part. 1650 L. Dyve 19 Most of my Lord of Inchiquins foot..changed sides, and revolted to the enemy. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet (1724) I. 268 He..changed sides so often, that in conclusion no side trusted him. 1849 J. K. Paulding I. vi. 133 A very ancient and noble family, that had become illustrious by changing sides some sixteen or eighteen times during the wars of York and Lancaster. 1940 ‘G. Orwell’ 82 One has got to change sides when the underdog becomes an upperdog. 2010 (Nexis) 13 Jan. a12 Leading politicians, anxiously eyeing the polls, change sides at the last moment. the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > desert one's party or principles 1618 S. Daniel 153 Glocester..conceiuing his turning, not so to serue his turne, as he expected..againe changed foote. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor I. i. v. 186 He must not change his foot, till it be made certain to him that he is deceived. 1830 21 Aug. 4/5 If your Majesty does not change your tack, I shall see you before this day three months riding about London in a hackney coach. 1873 Dec. 173 When he caught a sight of Mary's face..he changed tack entirely. 1917 E. Poole xviii. 143 From this night on, Baird changed his tack. 1966 6 Oct. 4 Hanoi could also change tack and agree to a truce. 2013 C. Kerr & T. Jones in D. McMurray & A. Ufheil-Somers xxiii. 213 Al-Wifaq and Wa'ad subsequently changed tack, as the regime's violence made them feel compelled to join forces with the protesters. 1834 11 Aug. 913/6 These are the men who pretend to be Democrats! These are the patent exclusives who having had Mr Van Buren to blow upon them, have changed their leopard spots.] 1841 3 July 421/1 Toryism has covered now and then, but it has never changed, its spots. 1881 ‘T. Amberfly’ 116 Oh, no; he has changed his spots completely. He is no longer a bucolic, idiotic, turnip headed, old Obstructionist. 1905 J. M. Forman xviii. 118/1 Unless Jimmy has changed his spots, he will not turn up when he is expected, but at some other quite different time. 1974 D. Clement & I. La Frenais (2002) 1st Ser. Episode 3. 79/2 You've changed your spots, ain't you? Day we come in,..you didn't even know if you were C of E, Pressed Beef or a flaming Buddhist. 2002 Oct. 10/4 Abusers do not change their spots. 1940 3 Oct. 8/7 No doubt somebody will be wondering what happened to this column's diary... Well,..we're changing it up a bit. 1952 2 Nov. 2 d/8 In the fourth quarter Baldwin rammed through the right side of the line... To change it up a little, Garst didn't kick, but ran the right end for the extra point. 1990 (Nexis) 20 Jan. In the second half we did a better job when we went to the zone... We changed it up, we trapped out of it, and it was effective. 2015 Sept. 10 (caption) At home, sometimes I change it up, subbing in Massaman curry paste for the curry powder. P2. Phrases relating to state, circumstances, or location. the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 906 ‘Now God have mercy on hir soule!’ seyde sir Percyvale. ‘Hit sore forthynkith me; but all we muste change the lyff.’ a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1242 I wolde sey: here in thys worlde he chaunged hys lyff. 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil iv. i. 83 a At ye same time Marye the Vyrgyne..did chaunge her life. 1583 J. Foxe (ed. 4) II. 120/2 Ethelbert..chaunged thys mortall life about the yeare of our Lorde 616. 1592 H. Kinder tr. L. Lemnius xxxiv. 102 Immediately after they haue chaunged life, all their goods are put vnder the voyce of the Bedle or Cryer. 1624 S. Lennard tr. J. P. Perrin ii. iv. 113 Fortifying her speeches with most Christian consolations, to the great comfort and edification of all that were present, and in this estate she changed her life. 1659 T. Fuller iii. 49 That noble Earl..never changed his Name, till he changed his Life, and then of a Militant became a Triumphant Saint. 1876 W. Morris iii. 233 Now Giuki the King of the Niblungs must change his life at the last. b. to change places. 1546 J. Heywood ii. vii. sig. I.iiiv If you..long for chaunge in those cases, Wold to god he and you had chaunged places. 1635 T. Heywood vii. 462 Vessus Marcellus..had two fields..; the one was a faire greene medow, the other planted with Oliue trees, which miraculously changed places; for the Oliue field was transported where the medow was, and the medow to the place where the Oliues grew. 1761 R. O. Cambridge 134 He then made the signal for the Elizabeth and Tyger to change places in the line, apprehending the enemy's leading ship in the van might be an over match for the Tyger. 1821 1 Dec. 758/3 Change places, and handy-dandy! Which is the monkey? Which is the man? 1931 R. M. Eaton 206 Obversion, also known as permutation differs from conversion in that the subject and predicate do not change places. 1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold ii. 203 It's often been expressed that if a man and woman could change places for a time, we'd be more sensitive to each other's problems. 1534 J. Heywood sig. A.iiii Ye Stood in colde water all a day to the kne And I halfe the same day to myd leg in the fyer wolde ye chaunge places with me for the dryer. 1648 Bp. J. Hall liii. 153 The Porters might not thrust in amongst the Singers, though perhaps some of their voyces might be more tuneable; neither might the Singers change places with the Porters. 1733 Capt. Downes ii. ii. 21 (stage direct.) Ariomana returns, but changes Places with her Sister, standing now at the left Hand. 1759 A. Smith i. §i. 3 It is by changing places in fancy with the sufferer, that we come either to conceive or to be affected by what he feels. 1864 95 764 Do you believe that the Æsculapius would change places with him? 1923 18 Aug. 88/2 If His Majesty's Government were to change places each week with His Majesty's Opposition, what difference would it make to His Majesty's Subjects? 1949 ‘T. Herrick’ Message From Dead in Jan. 24/2 My home planet that had changed places with the Moon. 2004 J. Weiner 57 He'd even changed places with me, giving me the window seat so that I could see California. 1912 Feb. 214/1 Seraph Frissell..has changed address from Springfield, Mass., to Hillsdale, Mass. 1924 P. G. Wodehouse 191 But even if I do change my address, I shall be all the time..wondering if Uncle George isn't going to pop out from somewhere and pounce on me. 1978 14 Sept. 3/2 Mr. Lillie..tracks down persons who default on their debts then change addresses. 2002 17 June 27/2 The visitors will be kept on a short leash, required to check in with the INS every time they change address. P3. Phrases relating to direction or position. 1675 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli Art of War v. iv, in tr. N. Machiavelli 491 If you would change your front..[It. Se voi gli volete fare voltare], you must not say turn, but face about to the right or the left, to the front or the rear. 1774 J. Cuninghame 34 The..various ways of changing front, firing at marks, and presenting their arms in the best manner for doing execution. 1781 J. Williamson iv. 51 The battalion begins firing by platoons or divisions, when it has changed front either to the right or to the left. 1832 iii. 55 A Line is ordered to ‘Change Front’ on a flank. 1871 22 Sept. We had changed front left back to meet his flank attack. 1932 24 Oct. 11/2 The C.I.V. Infantry..distinguished themselves..by changing front quarter right under a hot fire. 2015 E. J. Hess vii. 126 Blackman again changed front to the rear when once more threatened in that direction. 1792 i. 19 Change Feet... This may be required of an individual, who is stepping with a different foot from the rest. 1795 T. Reide ii. ii. 131 At the words change feet, the advanced one completes its pace, and the ball of the other is brought quickly up to the right heel. 1843 18 Nov. 3/5 Steady—attention—right, face—quick march—change step 172, and also 90; halt. 2011 R. Powers ix. 116 The command is ‘Change step, march.’ 1835 Dec. 80 The overplus of balls is fired by the second rank, which changes arms at each discharge. 2009 (Nexis) 6 Nov. 1 Slope arms, change arms, present arms and order arms, came the barked commands of the drill sergeant. Phrasal verbs † to change about Obsolete. ?1785 J. Moffat tr. Aretæus ii. xii. 267 Afterwards the attack is in the joints of the elbows and knees..; then it changes about to the muscles of the back and thorax. 1844 C. Dickens xliii. 492 To let us change and change about. to change around the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)] the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > in different position 1871 19 July Next week the old United States or Stubblefield House will shut up shop, and the proprietor, Col. Stubblefield, will open up the old National. This is changing things around considerably. 1883 W. G. Zeigler & B. S. Grosscup 53 In a lull of the storm we..tore down our camp, and changed it around with its back wall against the wind. 1991 D. Lucie 262 Emily, she's five, and Miranda, she's three. Changed my life around, I can tell you. society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > drive or operate a motor vehicle > operate clutch and gears 1904 30 Jan. 925/1 Changing down is not so easy as changing up, and requires more practice. 1953 E. Hawks (ed. 2) ii. 35 In changing down from top to third, and third to second, proceed as follows. 2007 S. Dunne (2009) xxi. 316 Brook changed down and floored the accelerator. U.S.1864 Let. 12 Feb. in C. George et al. 125 The 106th New York Band with whom we changed off—first one playing and then the other. 1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner xxxiii. 307 We had Dr. Spooner a good while, but..we changed off and took Dr. Leathers. 1966 Apr. 32 Ben and I joined the dancers, we changed off with other couples, but mostly we danced together. 1977 D. D'Easum 168 We changed off from time to time to..give the prisoners a chance at the scenery. 1992 R. Collier & R. Wilkinson 49 We changed off from overload to main petrol tanks. 2008 R. Hamilton & C. Gervais 33 Two slept while the other was on guard duty, we changed off during the night. to change out 1900 (U.S. Dept. Interior) 625 We have changed out the old 61-pound rail, relaying the track for 40 miles south with new 75-pound steel. 1933 31 Aug. 20 (advt.) Does it smoke and spoil your food? Then change it out for a Nesco Blue Flame Stove. 1989 B. Kingsolver v. 74 Sometimes you had to change a brake shoe, or we'd change out the drawbars, the knuckles, the gear boxes. 2011 B. Staggs 33 This type of distortion of the filter means that the owner waited too long to change it out for a new one! 1. 1883 1 Nov. (advt.) Having purchased..the Elkhart City Mills they will hereafter be known as the Elkhart Roller Mills being changed over to the Roller System. 1924 5 Feb. 34/2 The existing signaling will be changed over to alternating current track circuits and position light signals. 2003 Nov. 29/2 There are however, a couple of failures, the 10hp and 15hp semi-diesel engines built in the 1940s for example. These engines were started on petrol and when hot, changed over to diesel injection. 1889 R. Wallace 9 In changing over to the small farm system, this original capital would in a great measure be lost. 1898 12 July 2/7 In changing over to the new central incline shaft from the old shaft. 1974 Apr. 55/1 Most soda pulp mills changed over to the kraft process (which is also often called the sulfate process). 2000 3 Apr. 22/3 As the ‘voice data’ business changes over from atoms to bits. 2. 1888 12 Oct. 486/1 A cheaper and better plan than has heretofore been devised for changing over hexagon reels is demanded by millers. 1901 24 Oct. 765/1 The Manhattan company had at that time..completed its arrangements for changing over the elevated system from steam to electricity. 1973 Dec. 59/2 This saves the operator the inconvenience of changing over the spools to play the second side of a stereo four track tape. 2011 (Nexis) 15 Dec. A local..aerial installer..said I know just what type of aerial you need, and changed mine over. 1910 6 262 Under such arrangements as these on the days when the night shift changed over to the day some of the men would have to work eighteen hours. 1958 Atomic Energy: Accident at Windscale in (Cmnd. 302) XXIV. 1185 Some delay was therefore necessary while the shift changed over at 08.00. 1994 R. Tyler & G. Parry in M. Talbot-Smith i. 55/2 It may therefore be possible to alternate two employees between tasks in noisy and quiet areas, perhaps changing over at lunchtime. 2010 D. Daniel 199 Nothing happened for the next few hours, except when the teams changed over at midnight. 1870 Aug. 40/2 I laughed till I choked, and was just as red in the beet as a face—I mean—well, you change it round right yourself; I can't stop. 1933 S. Hedin 187 She changed round the furniture and put the room straight. 2004 N. Govinden 94 They must have changed things round since last week. 1. 1891 22 Oct. He has changed up the affairs at the postoffice at this place in a wonderful and satisfactory manner. 1919 6 Dec. 6/6 It is impossible to predict..which horses will win. The weather conditions during the past few days have changed up things considerably. 1975 20 July 4 b/1 This fishing method has changed up the fishing world. 1999 J. Morgan 181 Recognizing my own inability to consider abortion or adoption..forced me to change up my program when it came to sex. 2013 Mar. 116/1 You also used to survive only on Coke and McD's; have you changed up your diet of late? the world > time > change > change [verb (intransitive)] 1920 11 Aug. 4/2 [He] has a grape vine which I advised him to manure. Since then it has changed up nicely and is loaded with a crop of grapes. 1941 E. Mittelholzer xxxv. 148 We keep everyt'ing in de same place... Nutting change up! 1961 P. Marshall (1962) 81 Everything is changing up... It's raining now when it ought to be dry. 1990 H. Crews xiii. 142 The whole sport had changed up on him. When he started, there had been no women. 2001 A. Wheatle 159 Der was ah tribesman who could speak French, an' as me mudder come from Haiti, an' could speak French... Some of the words change up, but we understand each uder. 1904 30 Jan. 925/1 Changing down is not so easy as changing up, and requires more practice. 1962 J. Braine ii. 38 I changed down into second; then changed up again. 2015 Aug. 59/1 The engine either bellows or screams dementedly..depending on whether you are changing up or down. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.?c1225v.c1225 |
