Tag: Change

Change or Advance

verb
  1. 1.
    make (someone or something) different; alter or modify.
    “both parties voted against proposals to change the law”
  2. 2.
    replace (something) with something else, especially something of the same kind that is newer or better; substitute one thing for (another).
    “she decided to change her name”
noun
  1. 1.
    the act or instance of making or becoming different.
    “the change from a nomadic to an agricultural society”
  2. 2.
    coins as opposed to paper currency.
    “a handful of loose change”
    What is the original meaning of change?
    as “to become different, be altered” (intransitive), from Old French changier “to change, alter; exchange, switch,” from Late Latin cambiare “to barter, exchange,” extended form of Latin cambire “to exchange, barter.” This is held to be of Celtic origin, from PIE root *kemb- “to bend, crook” (with a sense evolution …

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