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Change can be a noun or a verb.

change used as a noun:

  1. the process of becoming different.
    "The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it."
  2. small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
    "Can I get change for this $100 bill please?"
  3. a replacement, e.g. a change of clothes
  4. a change-up pitch
  5. money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
    "A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change."

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

change used as a verb:

  1. To become something different.
    "The tadpole changed into a frog."
  2. To make something into something different.
    "The fairy changed the frog into a prince."
  3. To replace.
    "Ask the janitor to come and change the lightbulb."
  4. To replace one's clothing.
    "You can't go into the dressing room while she's changing."
  5. To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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As detailed above, 'change' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it.
  2. Noun usage: Can I get change for this $100 bill please?
  3. Noun usage: A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change.
  4. Verb usage: The tadpole changed into a frog.
  5. Verb usage: Stock prices are constantly changing.
  6. Verb usage: The fairy changed the frog into a prince.
  7. Verb usage: I had to change the wording of the ad so it would fit.
  8. Verb usage: Ask the janitor to come and change the lightbulb.
  9. Verb usage: After a brisk walk, I washed up and changed my shirt.
  10. Verb usage: You can't go into the dressing room while she's changing.
  11. Verb usage: The clowns changed into their costumes before the circus started.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of change are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of change, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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