change verb (CLOTHES/BEDS)
You don't need to change - you look great as you are.
How often do you think he changes his shirt?
Could you change the baby (= the baby's nappy)?
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- You are going to change, aren't you? You can't go in those tatty old jeans.
- When did you last change the linen on the children's beds?
- I hadn't even changed when our first guests arrived, so Jeff had to cope on his own.
- I usually insist that he changes out of his work clothes before dinner.
- Can you make sure your brother doesn't walk in when I'm changing?
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change verb (WIND/SEA)
change verb (SPEED)
I changed into fourth (gear).
UK Change down to go round the corner.
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Phrasal verbs
change noun (MONEY)
She gave me €5 in change.
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Do you have change for a 20-dollar bill?
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change noun (CLOTHES)
She did a quick change before going on TV.
change noun (TRANSPORT)
change noun (BASEBALL)
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(Definition of change from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
change | American Dictionary
change verb (BECOME DIFFERENT)
[ I/T ]
to make or become different, or to do, use, or get one thing in place of another thing:
[ I ] Attitudes about lots of things changed during the 1960s.
[ I/T ]
To change over from one thing to something else is to stop doing or using one thing and to start doing or using another:
change verb (CLOTHES/BEDS)
[ I ] I’ll just change into (= put on) something a little dressier.
change verb (MONEY)
Can you change a $100 bill for me?
change verb (TRANSPORT)
[ I ] Change at Hartford for the train to Springfield.
Idioms
change noun (BECOMING DIFFERENT)
a change
Why don’t we eat on the porch for a change?
change noun (MONEY)
It costs $17 and you gave me $20, so here’s your $3 change.
I need change for a $50 bill because I want to take a taxi.
Do you have change for/of a dollar?
change noun (CLOTHES/BEDS)
(Definition of change from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of change
change
In each experimental session, there was just one color change to the sky or sphere and just one test-surface color.
You should say them all in the prescribed manner; do not change a thing.
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