Novelty is a change to what is new, or the newness of that to which a change is made as, he was perpetually desirous of novelty. Mutation is a more formal word for change, often suggesting repeated or continual change as, the mutations of fortune. To change a home toilet for a street dress to change from a caterpillar to or into a butterfly to change clothes with a beggar.Ī change is a passing from one state or form to another, any act or process by which a thing becomes unlike what it was before, or the unlikeness so produced we say a change was taking place, or the change that had taken place was manifest. We modify or qualify a statement which might seem too strong we modify it by some limitation, qualify it by some addition.Īlter, commute, convert, diversify, exchange, metamorphose, modify, qualify, shift, substitute, transfigure, transform, transmute, turn, vary, veerĪbide, bide, continue, endure, hold, keep, persist, remain, retain, stay To turn is a popular word for change in any sense short of the meaning of exchange, being often equivalent to alter, convert, transform, transmute, etc. To convert (Latin con, with, and verto, turn) is to primarily turn about, and signifies to change in form, character, use, etc., through a wide range of relations iron is converted into steel, joy into grief, a sinner into a saint.
To commute is to put something easier, lighter, milder, or in some way more favorable in place of that which is commuted as, to commute capital punishment to imprisonment for life to commute daily fares on a railway to a monthly payment. To vary is to change from time to time, often capriciously. To metamorphose is to make some remarkable change, ordinarily in external qualities, but often in structure, use, or chemical constitution, as of a caterpillar into a butterfly, of the stamens of a plant into petals, or of the crystalline structure of rocks, hence called "metamorphic rocks," as when a limestone is metamorphosed into a marble. was transfigured before them, and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light," Matt. Transfigure is, as in its Scriptural use, to change in an exalted and glorious spiritual way "Jesus. To transform is to change form or appearance, with or without deeper and more essential change it is less absolute than transmute, tho sometimes used for that word, and is often used in a spiritual sense as transmute could not be "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind," Rom. To transmute is to change the qualities while the substance remains the same as, to transmute the baser metals into gold. Change is often used in the sense of exchange as, to change horses. To exchange is often to transfer ownership as, to exchange city for country property.
To change is distinctively to make a thing other than it has been, in some respect at least to exchange to put or take something else in its place to alter is ordinarily to change partially, to make different in one or more particulars.
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