change

Roget-categorie 140

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.7. Change
›› 1.7.1. Simple change

#140. [Difference at different times.] Change

zelfstandig naamwoord

change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution — diversion — break.
transformation, transfiguration — metamorphosis — transmutation — deoxidization [Chem] — transubstantiation — [Genetics], mutagenesis transanimation^†, transmigration, metempsychosis^† — avatar — alterative.
conversion etc. (gradual change) 144 — revolution etc. (sudden or radical change) 146, inversion etc. (reversal) 218 — displacement etc. 185 — transference etc. 270.
changeableness etc. 149 — tergiversation etc. (change of mind) 607.

werkwoord

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 etc. 146 — reverse etc. 218 — disturb etc. 61 — convert into etc. 144.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

changed etc. v. — newfangled — changeable etc. 149 — transitional — modifiable — alterative.

bijwoord

mutatis mutandis [Lat.].

tussenwerpsel

quantum mutatus! [Lat.],

uitdrukking

a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]; nous avons change tout cela [Moliere]; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis [Lat.] — non sum qualis eram [Lat.] [Horace]; casaque tourner [Fr.] — corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur [Tacitus]; in statu quo ante bellum [Lat.] — still ending and beginning still" [Cowper]; vox audita perit littera scripta manet [Lat.].

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