(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To give and take reciprocally; to exchange; -- followed by with; as, to change place, or hats, or money, with another.
(v. t.) Specifically: To give, or receive, smaller denominations of money (technically called change) for; as, to change a gold coin or a bank bill.
(v. i.) To be altered; to undergo variation; as, men sometimes change for the better.
(v. i.) To pass from one phase to another; as, the moon changes to-morrow night.
(v. t.) Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principles.
(v. t.) A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons.
(v. t.) A passing from one phase to another; as, a change of the moon.
(v. t.) Alteration in the order of a series; permutation.
(v. t.) That which makes a variety, or may be substituted for another.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.
(v. t.) A public house; an alehouse.
(v. t.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(2) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(3) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
(4) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(5) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(6) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(7) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(8) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
(9) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(10) Changes in cardiac adenosine triphosphate (ATP), phosphocreatine (PCr) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) were followed and intracellular pH (pHi) was estimated from the chemical shift of Pi.
(11) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(12) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(13) As collapse was imminent, MAP increased but CO and TPR did not change significantly.
(14) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
(15) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(16) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
(17) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
(18) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(19) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
(20) The pancreatic changes are unlikely to be an artefact, but rather a direct toxic effect of the alcohol as confirmed by the biochemical changes.
Refashion
Definition:
(v. t.) To fashion anew; to form or mold into shape a second time.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is that beautiful moment when the original Metamorphosis is destroyed so that it can be refashioned for a global community of readers in dire need of new forms of storytelling.
(2) Failure was defined as the necessity for further surgery, either refashioning of the anastomosis or nephrectomy.
(3) With the death toll across Guinea , Liberia and Sierra Leone topping 5,000 this month, everything from equipment to medical trials to psychology handbooks is being tested, upgraded and refashioned.
(4) The details of technique of lengthening and refashioning of the residual phallic stump after partial amputation in a further 20 patients is described using a technique which leaves a satisfactory penile stump in patients who would normally be candidates for a total amputation.
(5) The author foresees that these developments may undercut the reasoning of earlier court decisions, have psychological effects leading to a refashioning of moral views, and produce a social trend away from concern with the public health benefits of abortion to the clash between fetal and women's rights.
(6) Devolution, a refashioned welfare state and stronger local institutions to bind a fractured society together all feature.
(7) Two ends of the refashioned rib were anchored to masseteric muscle mass and zygoma.
(8) The author and journalist Robert Winder detailed in his book Bloody Foreigners how Charles Dickens, in creating the character of Fagin for Oliver Twist , refashioned a real social problem.
(9) An opportunity to begin to refashion the EU so it better serves this nation's interests and the interests of its other 26 nations too.
(10) A sweetly young Amy Winehouse is chided by Patterson: “Drinkers Rule Number One: Have Your Tea.” A grimly sterile Victoria Beckham perfume launch is refashioned as a comic masterpiece.
(11) Along with a growing band of Hollywood innovators, the producers of 21 & Over have worked closely with the Chinese government to produce an alternate cut for their audiences, one in which the film's hero is refashioned as a Chinese exchange student who ultimately shakes off the rank delinquency of American college life and returns home a reformed character.
(12) Escobar's words would be music to the ears of the mayor of Newham, Sir Robin Wales, who wants to refashion the welfare state into a system that builds resilience.
(13) The Liberal Democrat deputy hit out the day after Cameron used his annual foreign policy speech at the Lord Mayor of London's banquet on Monday night to say that the euro crisis provided an opportunity for the EU to rethink its purpose and rules and to refashion it as a looser union.
(14) It is suggested that the marked lysosomal activity during early pregnancy is related to the architectural refashioning of the placenta during this period and that there are two phosphatase-linked transfer systems in the trophoblast, one dependent upon acid-phosphatase-containing multivesicular bodies and being utilised during early pregnancy and the other reliant upon alkaline phosphatase and dominating during the second half of gestation.
(15) In his annual foreign policy speech at the Lord Mayor of London's banquet on Monday, Cameron said the crisis provided an opportunity for the EU to rethink its purpose and rules and to refashion it as a looser union.
(16) Those speeches about refashioning capitalism – from Clegg, Miliband and even David Cameron last week – are asking the right questions.
(17) Thrombosed shunts were treated either by refashioning the shunt (1 patient) or splenectomy and gastric devascularization (2 patients).
(18) The Labour national executive on Tuesday agreed the terms of reference for the inquiry into how Labour and the unions should refashion their relationship, and left open whether the party will look again at voting powers at conference.
(19) Complications were recorded at some stage after colostomy in 25% but only 10% required surgical refashioning.
(20) But a century or so of work by Egyptologists has seen those "mounds" refashioned into temples, shrines and the outlines of ancient houses.