Changed and Same

verb

• Cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.
  • usage: "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
  • synonyms: change, alter, modify
• Undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.
  • usage: "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
  • synonyms: change
• Become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.
  • usage: "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season"
  • synonyms: change, alter, vary
• Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another.
  • usage: "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes"
  • synonyms: switch, shift, change
• Change clothes; put on different clothes.
  • usage: "Change before you go to the opera"
  • synonyms: change
• Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category.
  • usage: "Could you convert my dollars into pounds"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares"
  • synonyms: change, exchange, commute, convert
• Give to, and receive from, one another.
  • usage: "Would you change places with me"; "We have been exchanging letters for a year"
  • synonyms: exchange, change, interchange
• Change from one vehicle or transportation line to another.
  • usage: "She changed in Chicago on her way to the East coast"
  • synonyms: transfer, change
• Become deeper in tone.
  • usage: "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password"
  • synonyms: deepen, change
• Remove or replace the coverings of.
  • usage: "Father had to learn how to change the baby"; "After each guest we changed the bed linens"
  • synonyms: change

adjective

• Made or become different in nature or form.
  • usage: "changed attitudes"; "changed styles of dress"; "a greatly changed country after the war"
• Made or become different in some respect.
  • usage: "he's an altered (or changed) man since his election to Congress"
• Changed in constitution or structure or composition by metamorphism.
  • usage: "metamorphic rocks"

noun

• A member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer.
  • synonyms: Lapp, Lapplander, Sami, Saami, Saame
• The language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula.
  • synonyms: Lapp, Sami, Saami, Saame

adjective

• Same in identity.
  • usage: "the same man I saw yesterday"; "never wore the same dress twice"; "this road is the same one we were on yesterday"; "on the same side of the street"
• Closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree.
  • usage: "curtains the same color as the walls"; "two girls of the same age"; "mother and son have the same blue eyes"; "animals of the same species"; "the same rules as before"; "two boxes having the same dimensions"; "the same day next year"
• Equal in amount or value.
  • usage: "like amounts"; "equivalent amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and the other a like number"; "the same number"
  • synonyms: like
• Unchanged in character or nature.
  • usage: "the village stayed the same"; "his attitude is the same as ever"

• (v.i.) Just mentioned or just about to be mentioned.
• (v.i.) Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions or the like; not differing in character or in the quality or qualities compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like.
• (v.i.) Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.