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Change [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Any variation or alteration in form, state, quality, or essence; or a passing from one state or form to another; as a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles.

2. A succession of one thing in the place of another; vicissitude; as a change of seasons; a change of objects on a journey; a change of scenes.

3. A revolution; as a change of government.

4. A passing by the sun, and the beginning of a new monthly revolution; as a change of the moon.

5. A different state by removal; novelty; variety.

6. Our fathers did, for change to France repair.

7. Alteration in the order of ringing bells; variety of sounds.

8. Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.

9. That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another.

10. Thirty changes of raiment. Judges 14:12 .

11. Small coins of money, which may be given for larger pieces.

12. The balance of money paid beyond the price of goods purchased.

13. I give the clerk a bank note for his cloth, and he gave me the change

14. The dissolution of the body; death.

15. All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Job 14:14 .

16. change for exchange, a place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.

17. In arithmetic, permutation; variation of numbers. Thirteen numbers admit of 6, 227, 020, 800 changes, or different positions.

Change [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes change for the better, often for the worse.

2. I am Jehovah; I change not. Malachi 3:6 .

3. To pass the sun, as the moon in its orbit; as, the moon will change the 14th of this month.

Change [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To cause to turn or pass from one state to another; to alter, or make different; to vary in external form, or in essence; as, to change the color or shape of a thing; to change the countenance; to change the heart or life.

2. To put one thing in the place of another; to shift; as, to change the clothes

3. Be clean and change your garments. Genesis 35:2 .

4. To quit one thing or state for another; followed by for; as, persons educated in a particular religion do not readily change it for another.

5. To give and take reciprocally; as, will you change conditions with me?

6. To barter; to exchange goods; as, to change a coach for a chariot.

7. To quit, as one place for another; as, to change lodgings.

8. To give one kind of money for another; to alter the form or kind of money, by receiving the value in a different kind, as to change bank notes for silver; or to give pieces of a larger denomination for an equivalent in pieces of smaller denomination, as to change an eagle for dollars, or a sovereign for sixpences, or to change a dollar into cents; or on the other hand, to change dollars for or into eagles, giving money of smaller denomination for larger.

9. To become acid or tainted; to turn from a natural state of sweetness and purity; as, the wine is changed; thunder and lightning are said to change milk.

10. To change a horse, or to change hand, is to turn or bear the horses head from one hand to the other, from the left to the right, or from the right to the left.

Change [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes change for the better.

2. To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night.

Change [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance.

2. To alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation; to change one's intention.

3. To give and take reciprocally; to exchange; -- followed by with; as, to change place, or hats, or money, with another.

4. Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill.

5. Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles.

6. A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons.

7. A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon.

8. Alteration in the order of a series; permutation.

9. That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another.

10. Small money; the money by means of which the larger coins and bank bills are made available in small dealings; hence, the balance returned when payment is tendered by a coin or note exceeding the sum due.

11. A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.

12. A public house; an alehouse.

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

Changeability [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Changeableness, which is generally used.

Changeability [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Changeableness.

Changeable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. That may change; subject to alteration; fickle; inconstant; mutable; variable; as a person of a changeable mind.

2. Having the quality of suffering alteration of external appearance; as changeable silk.

Changeable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.

2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk.

Changeableness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; instability; mutability.

2. Susceptibility of change, or alteration.

Changeableness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.

Changeably [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Inconstantly.

Changeably [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a changeable manner.

Changed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Altered; varied; turned; converted; shifted.

Changed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Change

Changeful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Full of change; inconstant; mutable; fickle; uncertain; subject to alteration.

Changeful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain.

Changeless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Constant; not admitting alteration.

Changeless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That can not be changed; constant; as, a changeless purpose.

Changeling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A child left or taken in the place of another.

2. An idiot; a fool.

3. One apt to change; a waverer.

4. Any thing changed and put in the place of another.

Changeling [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Taken or left in place of another; changed.

2. Given to change; inconstant.

Changeling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.

2. A simpleton; an idiot.

3. One apt to change; a waverer.

Changer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who alters the form of any thing.

2. One that is employed in changing and discounting money; a money-changer.

3. One given to change.

Changer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who changes or alters the form of anything.

2. One who deals in or changes money.

3. One apt to change; an inconstant person.

Change Roget’s Thesaurus §140

N. change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution, diversion, break, transformation, transfiguration, metamorphosis, transmutation, deoxidization, transubstantiation, mutagenesis, transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis|, avatar, alterative, conversion, revolution inversion, displacement, transference, changeableness, tergiversation

V. change, alter, vary, wax and wane, modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with, turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert, pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume, work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce, transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume, metamorphose, ring the changes, innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards, give a turn to, give a color to, influence, turn the scale, shift the scene, turn over a new leaf, recast, reverse, disturb, convert into

Adj. changed, newfangled, changeable, transitional, modifiable, alterative

Adv. mutatis mutandis

Int. quantum mutatus, phr, "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream", nous avons change tout cela, tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis, non sum qualis eram, casaque tourner, corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur, in statu quo ante bellum, "still ending and beginning still", vox audita perit littera scripta manet

Irresolution Roget’s Thesaurus §605

N. irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision, indetermination, undetermination|, unsettlement, uncertainty, demur, suspense, hesitating, hesitation, hesitancy, vacillation, changeableness, fluctuation, alternation, caprice, fickleness, levity, legerete, pliancy, weakness, timidity, cowardice, half measures, waverer, ass between two bundles of hay, shuttlecock, butterfly, wimp, doughface

V. be irresolute, hang in suspense, keep in suspense, leave "ad referendum", think twice about, pause, dawdle, remain neuter, dillydally, hesitate, boggle, hover, dacker, hum and haw, demur, not know one's own mind, debate, balance, dally with, coquet with, will and will not, chaser-balancer, go halfway, compromise, make a compromise, be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man, be afraid, "let 'i dare not' wait upon 'i would'", falter, waver vacillate, change, retract, fluctuate, pendulate, alternate, keep off and on, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, shuffle, palter, blink, trim

Adj. irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted, undecided, unresolved, undetermined, shilly-shally, fidgety, tremulous, hesitating, off one's balance, at a loss, vacillating, unsteady, unsteadfast, fickle, without ballast, capricious, volatile, frothy, light, lightsome, light-minded, giddy, fast and loose, weak, feeble-minded, frail, timid, wimpish, wimpy, cowardly, dough-faced, facile, pliant, unable to say "no", easy-going, revocable, reversible

Adv. irresolutely, irresolved, irresolvedly, in faltering accents, off and on, from pillar to post, seesaw

Int. "how happy could i be with either!"

Mart Roget’s Thesaurus §799

N. mart, market, marketplace, fair, bazaar, staple, exchange, change, bourse, hall, guildhall, tollbooth, customhouse, tattersall's, stall, booth, stand, newsstand, cart, wagon, wharf, office, chambers, countinghouse, bureau, counter, compter, shop, emporium, establishment, store, department store, general store, five and ten, variety store, co-op, finding store, grindery warehouse, grocery, supermarket, candy store, sweet shop, confectionery, bakery, greengrocer, delicatessen, bakeshop, butcher shop, fish store, farmers' market, mom and pop store, dairy, health food store, tobacco shop, tobacco store, tobacconists, cigar store, hardware store, jewelry shop, bookstore, liquor store, gun shop, rod and reel shop, furniture store, drugstore, chemist's, florist, flower shop, shoe store, stationer, stationer's, electronics shop, telephone store, music store, record shop, fur store, sporting goods store, video store, video rental store, lumber store, lumber yard, home improvements store, home improvement center, gas station, auto repair shop, auto dealer, used car dealer, mall, suburban mall, commons, pedestrian mall, shopping street, surplus store, army-navy surplus store, auction, flea market, yard sale, garage sale, pawn shop, antiques store, second-hand store, second time around shop, thrift shop, warehouse, wareroom, depot, interposit, entrepot, market-overt, real-estate broker, vending machine

Money Roget’s Thesaurus §800

N. money, legal tender, money matters, money market, finance, accounts, funds, treasure, capital, stock, assets, wealth, supplies, ways and means, wherewithal, sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash, mammon, dough, cabbage, money-like instruments, m1, m2, sum, amount, balance, balance sheet, sum total, proceeds, currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, cold cash, dollar, sterling coin, pounds shillings and pence, ls, d, pocket, breeches pocket, purse, money in hand, cash at hand, ready money, ready cash, slug, wad* wad of bills, wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough, rhino|, blunt|, dust|, mopus|, tin|, salt|, chink|, argent comptant, bottom dollar, buzzard dollar|, checks, dibs*, double eagle, eagle, federal currency, fractional currency, postal currency, federal reserve note, united states note, silver certificate, gold certificate, long bit, short bit, moss, nickel, pile*, pin money, quarter, red cent, roanoke, rock*, seawan, seawant, thousand dollars, grand, single, one-dollar bill, two-dollar bill, five-dollar bill, fiver, fin, lincoln, ten-dollar bill, sawbuck, twenty-dollar bill, jackson, double sawbuck, fifty-dollar bill, hundred-dollar bill, c-note, penny, cent, lincoln cent, indian head penny, copper, two-cent piece three-cent piece, half-dime, nickel, buffalo nickel, v nickel, dime, disme|, mercury dime, quarter, two bits, half dollar, dollar, silver dollar, eisenhower dollar, susan b, anthony dollar, precious metals, gold, silver, copper, bullion, ingot, nugget, petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit, stiver, rap, mite, farthing, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat, guinea, rouleau, wampum, good sum, round sum, lump sum, power of money, plum, lac of rupees, major coin, crown, minor coin, monetarist, monetary theory, numismatics, chrysology, numismatist, paper money, greenback, major denomination, minor denomination, money order, postal money order, post office order, bank note, bond, bill, bill of exchange, order, warrant, coupon, debenture, exchequer bill, assignat, blueback, hundi, shinplaster*, note, note of hand, promissory note, i o u, draft, check, cheque, back-dated check, negotiable order of withdrawal, now, remittance, credit, liability, drawer, drawee, obligor, obligee, moneyer, coiner, false money, bad money, base coin, flash note, slip|, kite*, fancy stocks, bank of elegance, argumentum ad crumenam, letter of credit, circulation, multiplier effect, inflation, double-digit inflation, hyperinflation, erosion of the currency, debasement of the currency, deflation, stagflation, exchange rate, rate of exchange, floating exchange rates, fixed rates, currency counter, currency exchange, bureau de change, gold-backed currency, gold standard, silver standard, bank account, savings account, checking account, money market account, now account, time deposit, deposit, demand deposit, super now account, certificate of deposit, cd, $, u, s, $, a$, federal reserve bank, central bank, federal reserve board, board of governors of the federal reserve, treasury department, secret service, mint, bureau of engraving, seigniorage, counterfeit, funny money, bogus money, (see falsehood) 545, interest, interest rate, discount rate

V. amount to, come to, mount up to, touch the pocket, draw, draw upon, indorse, issue, utter, discount, back, demonetize, remonetize, fiscalize, monetize, circulate, be in circulation, be out of circulation, mint, coin, print, inflate, deflate, debase, devalue, revalue, circulate, put in circulation, withdraw from circulation, exchange currencies, change money, charge interest, pay interest, lose interest

Adj. monetary, pecuniary, crumenal|, fiscal, financial, sumptuary, numismatic, numismatical, sterling, nummary

Phr. barbarus ipse placet dummodo sit dives, "but the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that honor feels", gelt regiert die welt, money makes the world go round, nervos belli pecuniam infinitam, redet geld so schweigt die welt, "money is the mother's milk of politics", money is the root of all evil, money isn't everything, "as phony as a three-dollar bill", "don't take any wooden nickels"

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Genesis 31:2

And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.

Genesis 31:5

And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.

and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.

Genesis 31:7

And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.

Genesis 31:41

Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

Thus for twenty years I have served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!

Genesis 35:2

Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.

Genesis 41:14

Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.

So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.

Genesis 45:22

To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

He gave new garments to each of them, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five sets of clothes.

Exodus 7:15

Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.

Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.

Exodus 10:19

And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.

And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.

Exodus 13:17

And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:

When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road through the land of the Philistines, though it was shorter. For God said, “If the people face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”

Exodus 14:5

And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”

Leviticus 13:16

Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;

But if the raw flesh changes and turns white, he must go to the priest.

Leviticus 13:55

And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.

After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine it, and if the mildewed article has not changed in appearance, it is unclean. Even though the mildew has not spread, you must burn it, whether the rot is on the front or back.

Leviticus 27:10

He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.

He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.

Leviticus 27:33

He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.

He must not inspect whether it is good or bad, and he shall not make any substitution. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy; they cannot be redeemed.’”

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

Numbers 23:20

Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.

I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.

Numbers 32:38

And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.

as well as Nebo and Baal-meon (whose names were changed), and Sibmah. And they renamed the cities they rebuilt.

Judges 14:12

And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:

“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.

Judges 14:13

But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.

But if you cannot solve it, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.” “Tell us your riddle,” they replied. “Let us hear it.”