CHANGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does changed mean? 

• CHANGED (adjective)
  The adjective CHANGED has 3 senses:

1. made or become different in nature or form

2. made or become different in some respect

3. changed in constitution or structure or composition by metamorphism

  Familiarity information: CHANGED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made or become different in nature or form

Context example:

a greatly changed country after the war

Similar:

denatured; denaturised; denaturized (changed in nature or natural quality)

exchanged (changed for (replaced by) something different)

transformed (given a completely different form or appearance)

varied (broken away from sameness or identity or duplication)

Antonym:

unchanged (not made or become different)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Made or become different in some respect

Context example:

he's an altered (or changed) man since his election to Congress

Similar:

altered (changed in form or character without becoming something else)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Changed in constitution or structure or composition by metamorphism

Context example:

metamorphic rocks

Similar:

metamorphic (characterized by metamorphosis or change in physical form or substance)

Domain category:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

 Context examples 

His voice and expression changed. His face was serious.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

CD117 may also be found in higher than normal amounts, or in a changed form, on some types of cancer cells, including gastrointestinal stromal tumors and melanoma.

(CD117, NCI Dictionary)

The act of alteration or modification; changed or altered in form or character.

(Change, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene may be mutated (changed) in many types of cancer, which causes a change in the B-RAF protein.

(BRAF gene, NCI Dictionary)

It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home and changed my clothes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A drug used to treat advanced melanoma that has a mutated (changed) form of a cell protein called BRAF.

(BRAF (V600E) kinase inhibitor RO5185426, NCI Dictionary)

The changed chromosome 22 with the fusion gene on it is called the Philadelphia chromosome.

(BCR-ABL fusion gene, NCI Dictionary)

I’ll be back in a moment when I have changed my dressing-gown and filled my cigar-case.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It may be found in a mutated (changed) form in some types of cancer, including melanoma and colorectal cancer.

(BRAF kinase inhibitor, NCI Dictionary)

But Messner did not believe. He remembered her facility in changing front. She had changed front now. It was exploitation by indirection.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)