roller coaster
surgery
leaven
changeable
difference
vagary
affrication
whiplash
degemination
metamorphism
caprice
transition point
quantum leap
life event
turn the tide
spirantization
nasalization
on the turn
rollercoaster
upheaval
evolve
swing
erratic
overshift
adaptation
force
break
motion
inflection
movement
non sequitur
mobility
turn around
living end
flukey
cold shower
fluxity
conversion
alteration
variation
transition
changeover
blow off course
landmark
morph
turning point
watershed
tipping point
passing
nevermind
passage
shifty
mercurial
revolutionise
take a turn
undershift
fickle
revolutionize
overturn
jog
quicksilver
whammo
make a difference
fluctuation
on the cusp
bam
creep
bounce
synchronising
uptick
end of the world
makeover
chopping and changing
synchronisation
crisis
synchronization
flux
unstable
synchronizing
bend
adjustmental
transformative
supreme moment
who are you and what have you done with someone
diachronic
crop up
affected
sharp
multichange
sharply
hit the fan
desecrate
acutely
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transformative
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multichange
sharp
sharply
acutely
roller coaster
surgery
leaven
difference
vagary
affrication
whiplash
degemination
metamorphism
caprice
transition point
quantum leap
life event
spirantization
nasalization
rollercoaster
upheaval
swing
erratic
overshift
adaptation
force
motion
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movement
non sequitur
mobility
living end
cold shower
fluxity
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landmark
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passing
nevermind
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synchronising
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evolve
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blow off course
morph
swing
revolutionise
take a turn
revolutionize
overturn
make a difference
creep
bounce
bend
crop up
hit the fan
desecrate
noun
- Drastic changes made to anything.
- A room or department where surgery is performed.
- The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
- Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
- A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
- The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
- A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
- A doctor's office.
noun
- Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
- The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
- A disagreement or argument.
- An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
- A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
- The quality of being different.
- The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
- The set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B).
- A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB).
noun
- Any dramatic change from one thing to another
- The process by which rocks are changed into other forms by the application of heat and/or pressure.
- The process by which insects develop through life stages, for example, those of embryo, larva, pupa and imago. The life cycle of the butterfly is one of complete metamorphosis, in which the embryo grows within the egg, hatches into the larval stage caterpillar, enters the pupal stage within its chrysalis, and finally emerges as an adult butterfly imago.
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verb
- To cause something to change or transform.
- To change; transform.
- Of a population, to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
- To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
- To move in regular procession through a system.
- To come into being; develop.
- Of a trait, to develop within a population via biological evolution.
- Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
noun
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- A dance style.
- In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
verb
- To fluctuate or change.
- To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- To move sideways in its trajectory.
- To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
- To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- To turn in a different direction.
- To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- To ride on a swing.
- To dance.
- (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
- To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
noun
- A change that results in something being moved too far or too many things being moved.
- A work period that extends significantly beyond the normal eight-hour shift; An instance of involuntary overtime.
- An unfitted woman's overgarment.
- A misalignment resulting from shifting gears too far.
- An overhang caused by seismic shift.
- The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's strong side, leaving portions of the field or court undefended.
- The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too far apart for molecular bonding.
verb
- To replant or repot too soon or too often.
- To raise the price to consumers by more than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
- To overshoot when changing gears.
- To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
- To move too great an amount or move something too far.
noun
- A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
- An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
- The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
- An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
- The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.
- The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
- The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
noun
- Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
- A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)
- The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
- A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
- Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- Legal validity.
- Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
- Synonym of police force
- Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- A waterfall or cascade.
verb
- To compel (someone or something) to do something.
- To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- To violate (a woman); to rape.
- To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
- To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
- To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
- To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
verb
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
noun
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
- a state of change
- a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
verb
noun
- An instance of such change.
- Change in the form of a word (morphologic change) to express different grammatical categories.
- Diffraction.
- Any form produced by such an instance of a change, such as the principal parts for any given stem: any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
- An affix representing such an instance.
- A turning away from a straight course.
- A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
- A change in pitch or tone of voice.
noun
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
- a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- a euphemism for defecation
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
- the act of changing the location of something
noun
- Any abrupt and inexplicable transition or occurrence.
- Any invalid argument in which the conclusion cannot be logically deduced from the premises.
- A kind of pun that uses a change of word, subject, or meaning to make a joke of the listener’s expectation.
- A statement that does not logically follow a statement that came before it.
noun
- A tendency to sudden change; mutability, changeableness.
- The degree to which particles of a liquid or gas are in movement.
- People's ability to move between different social levels or professional occupations.
- The ability of a military unit to move or be transported to a new position.
- The ability to move; capacity for movement.
verb
- To change drastically in a fundamental way, often for the better; to change to the opposite (opinion or position).
- To consider from a different viewpoint.
- (often with a unit of time) To produce; to output; to generate.
- To suddenly change or reverse one's opinion, point of view, stated position, behaviour, etc.
- To reverse an expected outcome (of a game, etc.), usually from a losing outcome to a winning one; to return (a business, department, etc.) to effectiveness, profitability, etc.
- To physically rotate (usually around a vertical axis) for a half turn (180 degrees), a whole turn (360 degrees), or an indefinite amount.
- To convert (an agent) to work for one's own side.
noun
- Something unexpected and often unpleasant which makes one take stock or reconsider something; a sudden change or turn of events.
- A chilly or unenthusiastic reaction to something or someone.
- A shower taken by a person in cold water; as taken for therapeutic reasons, or suggested as a remedy to calm sexual excitement.
noun
- an event that results in a transformation
- a change in the units or form of an expression:
- a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown
- a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
- a change of religion
- interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
- act of exchanging one type of money or security for another
- the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another
noun
- the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard
- an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
- an activity that varies from a norm or standard
- a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
- something a little different from others of the same type
- an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard
- the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north
- the process of varying or being varied
- (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
- (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
- (ballet) a solo dance or dance figure
noun
- an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend
- the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape
- a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land
- an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken
verb
- To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.
- To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
- To shapeshift.
noun
- An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
- A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.
- A recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds representing an indivisible morphological form; especially as representing a morpheme.
- A variety of a species, distinguishable from other individuals of the species by morphology or behaviour.
- morphine
noun
- an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend
- a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
- the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
noun
- The point at which a slow, reversible change becomes irreversible, often with dramatic consequences.
- The point in time at which some new technology becomes mainstream.
- An irreversible change in the climate system.
- A point in time when a group rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice.
noun
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- euphemistic expressions for death
- the motion of one object relative to another
- the end of something
- going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
adv
adj
- lasting a very short time
- allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily
- hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
adj
noun
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
- a way through or along which someone or something may pass
- the passing of a law by a legislative body
- a journey usually by ship
- a short section of a musical composition
- a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
- the motion of one object relative to another
- the act of passing something to another person
noun
- A change that results in something being not being moved far enough or too few things being moved.
- The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's weak side.
- A misalignment resulting from failure to shift gears far enough.
- An underhang caused by seismic shift.
- An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.
- The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too close together.
verb
verb
- To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
noun
- The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
- A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
- In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
verb
- To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
- To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
- To leave.
- To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
- To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
- To move rapidly (between).
- To attack unexpectedly.
- To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
- To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
- To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.
- To return undelivered.
- To turn power off and back on; to reset.
noun
- A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
- Drugs.
- Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
- An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
- The sack, dismissal.
- Swagger.
- A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
- A bang, boom.
- A talent for leaping.
- A good beat in music.
- A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
noun
- An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
- A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
- A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
- A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
- A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
noun
- in constant change
- the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface
- a flow or discharge
- a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed
- excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in watery diarrhea)
- a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action
- the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle
- (physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area
verb
verb
- To cause to change direction.
- To stoop.
- To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- To change direction.
- To force to submit.
- To submit.
- To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- To apply to a task or purpose.
- To become curved.
- To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- To be inclined; to direct itself.
- To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- To swing the body when rowing.
noun
- The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
- Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- A curve.
- The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
- One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
- A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
adv
adj
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
adj
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- ending in a sharp point
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- harsh
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- dangerously steep
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
- quick and forceful
noun
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