change

The tadpole changed into a frog. Stock prices are constantly changing.

(intransitive) To become something different.

Lo I the man, whoſe Muſe whilome did maske, / As time her taught in lowly Shepheards weeds, / Am now enforſt a far unfitter taske, / For trumpets ſterne to chaunge mine oaten reeds, / And ſinge of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds [...]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 1:

KORRIS: They shunned you. Cursed you. Called you vile names, and you knew not why. Even now do you know why you are driven? Why you cannot relent -- or repent -- or confess -- or abstain? How could you know? There have been no other Klingons to lead you to that knowledge.
WORF: Yes -- yes -- those feelings are still a part of me, but I control them. They do not rule me.
KORRIS: Yes, to fit in, the humans demand you change the one thing that you cannot change. But because you cannot -- you do. That too is the mark of the warrior.

1988 March 21, Heart of Glory (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:

Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.

2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80:

Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.

2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

The fairy changed the frog into a prince. I had to change the wording of the ad so it would fit.

(transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, boys who had pretended soldiers down through the centuries, now changed their pikes and swords for toy pistols.

1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 193:

Ask the janitor to come and change the lightbulb. After a brisk walk, I washed up and changed my shirt.

You can't go into the dressing room while she's changing. The clowns changed into their costumes before the circus started.

(intransitive) To replace one's clothing.

It's your turn to change the baby.

(transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it).

After stopping at these stations, my train has become busy. Returning day-trippers make up a goodly number, along with young people heading for a night out in Bristol, which is where I change once again.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66:

(intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)

At the first sight / they have changed eyes. (exchanged looks)

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

I would give any thing to change a word or two with this person.

1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)

to change a horse

(transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).

en-verb

change (third-person singular simple present changes, present participle changing, simple past and past participle changed)

changes (present singular third-person)
changing (participle present)
changed (participle past)
changed (past)

transform

to make something into something different

the more things change, the more they stay the same

→ Cantonese: 唱 (coeng³)

→ Kashubian: sczeńdżowac (Canada)

преобли́чам

to replace the clothing of (the one wearing it)

ต่อ

รถ, เรือ, etc

From Middle English changen, chaungen, from Old French changier, from Late Latin cambiāre, from Latin cambīre (“exchange, barter”), derived from the noun cambium (“change”) (whence was loaned the English doublet cambium), from Gaulish cambion, earlier *kambyom (“change”), related to Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh₂(e)mbos, *(s)kh₂(e)mbos (“crooked”). More at skimp, scam; see also Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-.
Cognate with Italian cambiare, Portuguese cambiar, Romanian schimba, Sicilian canciari, Spanish cambiar. Used in English since the 13th century. Displaced native Middle English wenden, from Old English wendan (“to turn, change”) (whence English wend).
The noun is from Middle English change, chaunge, from Old French change, from the verb changier. See also exchange. Possibly related from the same source is Old English gombe.


change

Cause people often talk about being scared of change / But for me I'm more afraid of things staying the same

2008, Nick Cave, “Jesus Of The Moon”, in Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:

The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it.

(countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.

Can I get change for this $100 bill, please?

(uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.

a change of clothes

After beating champions Chelsea 3-1 on Boxing Day, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger made eight changes to his starting XI in an effort to freshen things up, with games against Birmingham and Manchester City to come in the next seven days.

2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC:

A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change.

(uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.

Do you have any change on you? I need to make a phone call.

This bus ride requires exact change.

(uncountable) An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.

The train journey from Bristol to Nottingham includes a change at Birmingham.

It [the Elizabeth Line] will provide a 6tph (trains per hour) service and with a single change at Hayes & Harlington offer services towards Reading.

2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 72:

(countable) A transfer between vehicles.

Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.

1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC:

(campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.

1727-1728, Edward Burt, Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London
They call an alehouse a change.

(Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

en-noun

change (countable and uncountable, plural changes)

sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts

the more things change, the more they stay the same

plus ça change(, plus c'est la même chose)

→ Bulgarian: чейндж (čejndž)

→ Russian: чейндж (čejndž)

desc

→ Armenian: չեյնջ (čʻeynǰ), չենջ (čʻenǰ)

فَكَّة

small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination