change
To become something different.
Verb 4 meanings
To become something different.
“The tadpole changed into a frog.”
To make something into something else.
“The fairy changed the frog into a prince.”
To replace.
“Ask the janitor to come and change the lightbulb.”
To replace one's clothing.
“You can't go into the dressing room while she’s changing.”
Noun 4 meanings
The process or result of becoming different.
“The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it.”
Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
“Can I get change for this $100 bill, please?”
A replacement.
“a change of clothes”
Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
“A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change.”
Etymology
From Middle English changen, chaungen, from Old French changier, from Late Latin cambiāre, from Latin cambīre (“to 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”).
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CHANGE at a glance
CHANGE has 6 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (C 3 + H 4 + A 1 + N 1 + G 2 + E 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #243 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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