CHANGE OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does change over mean? 

• CHANGE OVER (verb)
  The verb CHANGE OVER has 2 senses:

1. make a shift in or exchange of

2. change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy

  Familiarity information: CHANGE OVER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANGE OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a shift in or exchange of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

change over; shift; switch

Context example:

First Joe led; then we switched

Hypernyms (to "change over" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "change over"):

back (shift to a counterclockwise direction)

veer (shift to a clockwise direction)

Sentence frames:

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Sense 2

Meaning:

Change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

change over; convert

Context example:

We converted from 220 to 110 Volt

Hypernyms (to "change over" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "change over"):

transduce (cause transduction (of energy forms))

metricate; metricise; metricize; metrify (convert from a non-metric to the metric system)

decimalise; decimalize (change to the decimal system)

float (convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

changeover (an event that results in a transformation)

 Context examples 

The researchers, from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, applied climate and ecological modelling to illustrate how the distribution of major bird groups is linked to climate change over millions of years.

(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)

The mean value of the amount of weight change over a period of time, relative to the beginning of the collection period.

(Average Body Weight Gain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The process of cumulative change over successive generations through which organisms acquire their distinguishing morphological and physiological characteristics.

(Evolution, NCI Thesaurus)

The amount of weight change over a period of time in relation to the total weight, relative to the beginning of the collection period.

(Percentage Body Weight Gain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

They're working to discover how the marsh — and the microbes in it — change over time when outside influences, such as nitrogen, are introduced to the ecosystem.

(Changing salt marsh conditions send resident microbes into dormancy, NSF)

Fat tissue and its supporting blood vessel network can change over time.

(Nanoparticles target, transform fat tissue, NIH)

Given this wide range of exposures, an NIH research team set out to determine how skin microbial communities change over time.

(Skin microbes fairly stable over time, NIH)

Should he therefore drop her arm and change over?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This year you can take full advantage, and that is a huge change over the past several years.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The study will follow children as they grow older and researchers hopes this will enable them to see whether structural differences in the brain change over time and exactly how they relate to obesity.

(Childhood obesity linked to structural differences in key brain regions, University of Cambridge)