1. SIMPLE CHANGE
#140. [Difference at different times.] Change.—N. change,
alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation,
inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation,
turn, evolution, revolution; diversion; break. transformation,
transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation; deoxidization[Chem];
transubstantiation; mutagenesis[Genet], transanimation[obs3],
transmigration, metempsychosis|; avatar; alterative. conversion &c.
(gradual change) 144; revolution &c. (sudden or radical change) 146
inversion &c. (reversal) 218; displacement &c. 185; transference &c.
270. changeableness &c. 149; tergiversation &c. (change of mind) 607.
V. change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify,
tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp,
deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert[obs3]; pass to, take a turn, turn
the corner, resume. work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce;
transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume[obs3];
metamorphose, ring the changes. innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle
the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale;
shift the scene, turn over a new leaf. recast &c. 146; reverse &c. 218;
disturb &c. 61; convert into &c. 144. Adj. changed &c. v.; newfangled;
changeable &c. 149; transitional; modifiable; alterative. Adv. mutatis
mutandis[Lat]. Int. quantum mutatus[Lat]! Phr. "a change came o'er the
spirit of my dream" [Byron]; nous avons change tout cela [Fr][Molière];
tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis[Lat][obs3]; non sum qualis
eram [Lat][Horace]; casaque tourner[Fr]; corpora lente augescent cito
extinguuntur [Lat][obs3][Tacitus]; in statu quo ante bellum[Lat];
"still ending and beginning still" [Cowper]; vox audita perit littera
scripta manet[Lat].
#141. [Absence of change.] Permanence.—N. stability &c. 150;
quiescence &c. 265; obstinacy &c. 606. permanence, persistence,
endurance; durability; standing, status quo; maintenance, preservation,
conservation; conservation; law of the Medes and Persians; standing
dish. V. let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry,
rest; stet [copy editing]; hold, hold on; last, endure, bide, abide,
aby[obs3], dwell, maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast;
subsist, live, outlive, survive; hold one's ground, keep one's ground,
hold one's footing, keep one's footing; hold good. Adj. stable &c. 150;
persisting &c. v.; permanent; established; unchanged &c. (change &c.
140); renewed; intact, inviolate; persistent; monotonous,
uncheckered[obs3]; unfailing. undestroyed, unrepealed,
unsuppressed[obs3]; conservative, qualis ab incepto[Lat]; prescriptive
&c. (old) 124; stationary &c. 265. Adv. in statu quo[Lat]; for good,
finally; at a stand, at a standstill; uti possidetis[Lat]; without a
shadow of turning. Phr. esto perpetua[Lat]; nolumus leges Angliae
mutari[Lat][obs3]; j'y suis et j'y ereste[Fr].
#142. [Change from action to rest.] Cessation.—N. cessation,
discontinuance, desistance, desinence[obs3]. intermission, remission;
suspense, suspension; interruption; stop; stopping &c. v.; closure,
stoppage, halt; arrival &c. 292. pause, rest, lull, respite, truce,
drop; interregnum, abeyance; cloture [U.S. congress]. dead stop, dead
stand, dead lock; finis, cerrado[Sp]; blowout, burnout, meltdown,
disintegration; comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop; end &c.
67; death &c. 360. V. cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break
off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire;
halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down. have done with, give
over, surcease, shut up shop; give up &c. (relinquish) 624. hold one's
hand, stay one's hand; rest on one's oars repose on one's laurels. come
to a stand, come to a standstill; come to a deadlock, come to a full
stop; arrive &c. 292; go out, die away; wear away, wear off; pass away
&c. (be past) 122; be at an end; disintegrate, self-destruct. intromit,
interrupt, suspend, interpel[obs3]; intermit, remit; put an end to, put
a stop to, put a period to; derail; turn off, switch off, power down,
deactivate, disconnect; bring to a stand, bring to a standstill; stop,
cut short, arrest, stem the tide, stem the torrent; pull the check-
string, pull the plug on. Int. hold! stop! enough! avast! have done! a
truce to! soft! leave off! tenez[Fr]! Phr. "I pause for a reply"
[Julius Caesar].
#143. Continuance in action.—N. continuance, continuation; run;
perpetuation, prolongation; persistence &c. (perseverance) 604a;
repetition &c. 104. V. continue, persist; go on, jog on, keep on, run
on, hold on; abide, keep, pursue, stick to its course, take its course,
maintain its course; carry on, keep up. sustain, uphold, hold up, keep
on foot; follow up, perpetuate; maintain; preserve &c. 604a; harp upon
&c. (repeat) 104. keep going, keep alive, keep the pot boiling, keep up
the ball, keep up the good work; die in harness, die with one's boots
on; hold on the even tenor of one's way, pursue the even tenor of one's
way. let be; stare super antiquas vias[Lat][obs3]; quieta non
movere[Lat]; let things take their course; stare decisis
[Lat][Jurisprudence]. Adj. continuing &c. v.; uninterrupted,
unintermitting[obs3], unvarying, unshifting[obs3]; unreversed[obs3],
unstopped, unrevoked, unvaried; sustained; undying &c. (perpetual) 112;
inconvertible. Int. keep it up! go to it! right away! right on!
attaboy! Phr. nolumus leges Angliae mutari[Lat][obs3]; vestigia nulla
retrorsum [Lat][Horace]; labitur et albetur [Lat][obs3][Horace].
#144. [Gradual change to something different.] Conversion.—N.
conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation;
evolution, sea change; change of state; assumption; naturalization;
transportation; development [biol.], developing [photography].
[conversion of currency] conversion of currency, exchange of currency;
exchange rate; bureau de change. chemistry, alchemy; progress, growth,
lapse, flux. passage; transit, transition; transmigration, shifting &c.
v.; phase; conjugation; convertibility. crucible, alembic, caldron,
retort. convert, pervert, renegade, apostate. V. be converted into;
become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop
into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide
into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself
into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to,
mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the
state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse|;
begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change. convert into,
resolve into; make, render; mold, form &c. 240; remodel, new model,
refound[obs3], reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to, reduce to.
Adj. converted into &c. v.; convertible, resolvable into; transitional;
naturalized. Adv. gradually, &c. (slowly) 275 in transitu &c.
(transference) 270[Lat].
#145. Reversion.—N. reversion, return; revulsion.
turning point, turn of the tide; status quo ante bellum; calm
before a storm; alternation &c. (periodicity) 138; inversion &c.
219; recoil &c. 277; retreat, regression, retrogression &c. 283;
restoration &c. 660; relapse, recidivism &c. 661; atavism;
vicinism[obs3]; V. revert, turn back, regress; relapse &c. 661;
recoil &c. 277; retreat &c. 283; restore &c. 660; undo, unmake;
turn the tide, roll back the tide, turn the scale, tip the scale.
Adj. reverting &c. v.; regressive, revulsive, reactionary;
retrorse[obs3]. Adv. a rebours[Fr].
#146. [Sudden or violent change.] Revolution.—N. revolution,
bouleversement, subversion, break up; destruction &c. 162; sudden
change, radical change, sweeping organic change; change of state, phase
change; quantum leap, quantum jump; clean sweep, coup d'etat[Fr],
counter revolution. jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience|;
explosion; spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion; storm, earthquake,
cataclysm. legerdemain &c. (trick) 545. V. revolutionize; new model,
remodel, recast; strike out something new, break with the past; change
the face of, unsex. Adj. unrecognizable; revolutionary.
#147. [Change of one thing for another.] Substitution.—N.
substitution, commutation; supplanting &c. v.; metaphor, metonymy &c.
(figure of speech) 521. [Thing substituted] substitute, ersatz,
makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement, succedaneum; shift, pis
aller[Fr], stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan,
dummy, scapegoat; double; changeling; quid pro quo, alternative.
representative &c. (deputy) 759; palimpsest. price, purchase money,
consideration, equivalent. V. substitute, put in the place of, change
for; make way for, give place to; supply the place of, take the place
of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step
into stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with;
borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it
in another, cannibalize; commute, redeem, compound for. Adj.
substituted &c.; ersatz; phony; vicarious, subdititious[obs3]. Adv.
instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of;
faute de mieux[Fr].
#148. [Double or mutual change.] Interchange.—N. interchange,
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exchange; commutation, permutation, intermutation; reciprocation,
transposition, rearrangement; shuffling; alternation, reciprocity;
castling
[at chess]; hocus-pocus.
interchangeableness[obs3], interchangeability.
recombination; combination 48[ref], 84..
barter &c. 794; tit for tat &c. (retaliation) 718; cross fire,
battledore and shuttlecock; quid pro quo.
V. interchange, exchange, counterchange[obs3]; bandy, transpose,
shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and
take,
return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore
and
shuttlecock; retaliate &c. 718; requite.
rearrange, recombine.
Adj. interchanged &c. v.; reciprocal, mutual, commutative,
interchangeable, intercurrent[obs3].
combinatorial[Math, Statistics].
recombinant[Biology, Genetics].
Adv. in exchange, vice versa, mutatis mutandis[Lat], backwards and
forwards, by turns, turn and turn about; each in his turn, everyone in
his
turn.
Adj. substituted &c. v.; vicarious, subdititious[obs3].
Adv. instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the
room
of; faute de mieux[Fr].
2. COMPLEX CHANGE
#149. Changeableness.—N. changeableness &c. adj.; mutability,
inconstancy; versatility, mobility; instability, unstable equilibrium;
vacillation &c. (irresolution) 605; fluctuation, vicissitude;
alternation &c. (oscillation) 314. restlessness &c. adj. fidgets,
disquiet; disquietude, inquietude; unrest; agitation &c. 315. moon,
Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock,
harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers[obs3]; wheel of
Fortune; transientness &c. 111[obs3]. V. fluctuate, vary, waver,
flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter, shift, shuffle, shake,
totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble[obs3], turn and turn about, ring the
changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and change about;
waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute) 605; oscillate &c. 314;
vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes;
alternate; have as many phases as the moon. Adj. changeable, changeful;
changing &c. 140; mutable, variable, checkered, ever changing; protean,
proteiform|; versatile. unstaid[obs3], inconstant; unsteady, unstable,
unfixed, unsettled; fluctuating &c. v.; restless; agitated &c. 315;
erratic, fickle; irresolute &c. 605; capricious &c. 608; touch and go;
inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic; vibratory; vagrant, wayward; desultory;
afloat; alternating; alterable, plastic, mobile; transient &c. 111;
wavering. Adv. seesaw &c. (oscillation) 314; off and on. Phr. "a
rolling stone gathers no moss"; pictra mossa non fa muschis[It];
honores mutant mores[Lat]; varium et mutabile semper femina
[Lat][Vergil].
#150. Stability.—N. stability; immutability &c. adj.;
unchangeability, &c. adj.; unchangeableness|!; constancy; stable
equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment[obs3],
stiffness, ankylosis[obs3], solidity, aplomb. establishment, fixture;
rock, pillar, tower, foundation, leopard's spots, Ethiopia's skin.
permanence &c. 141; obstinacy &c. 606. V. be firm &c. adj.; stick fast;
stand firm, keep firm, remain firm; weather the storm, stay the course,
stick to the course, keep the faith, don't give in, don't buckle
under. settle, establish, stablish[obs3], ascertain, fix, set,
stabilitate[obs3]; retain, keep hold; make good, make sure; fasten &c.
(join) 43; set on its legs, float; perpetuate. settle down; strike
roots, put down roots, take root; take up one's abode &c. 184; build
one's house on a rock. Adj. unchangeable, immutable; unaltered,
unalterable; not to be changed, constant; permanent &c. 141;
invariable, undeviating; stable, durable; perennial &c. (diuturnal)
110[obs3]. fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced; confirmed,
valid; fiducial[obs3]; immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted;
settled, established &c. v.; vested; incontrovertible, stereotyped,
indeclinable. tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock
solid, firm as a rock; firmly seated, firmly established &c. v.;
deep-rooted, ineradicable; inveterate; obstinate &c. 606. transfixed,
stuck fast, aground, high and dry, stranded. [movable object rendered
unmovable] stuck, jammed; unremovable; quiescent &c. 265; deterioration
&c. 659. indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable[obs3],
incommutable[obs3], irresoluble[obs3], irrevocable, irreversible,
reverseless[obs3], inextinguishable, irreducible; indissoluble,
indissolvable[obs3]; indestructible, undying, imperishable,
incorruptible, indelible, indeciduous[obs3]; insusceptible,
insusceptible of change. Int. stet. Phr. littera scripta manet[Lat].
_Present Events_
#151. Eventuality.—N. eventuality, event, occurrence, incident,
affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency,
juncture, experience, fact; matter of fact; naked fact, bare facts,
just the facts; phenomenon; advent. business, concern, transaction,
dealing, proceeding; circumstance, particular, casualty, accident,
adventure, passage, crisis, pass, emergency, contingency, consequence;
opportunity (occasion) 143. the world, life, things, doings, affairs in
general; things in general, affairs in general; the times, state of
affairs, order of the day; course of things, tide of things, stream of
things, current of things, run of things, march of things, course of
events; ups and downs of life, vicissitudes of life; chapter of
accidents &c. (chance) 156; situation &c. (circumstances) 8. V. happen,
occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off,
comeabout[obs3], come round, come into existence, come forth, come to
pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be
on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance[obs3]; prove, eventuate,
draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its
face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene[obs3]; issue,
arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off &c. (be
past) 122. meet with; experience, enjoy, encounter, undergo, suffer,
pass through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to; fall to the
lot of; be one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot; find; endure
&c. (feel) 821. Adj. happening &c. v; going on, doing, current; in the
wind, in the air, afloat; on foot, afoot, on the tapis[obs3]; at issue,
in question; incidental. eventful, stirring, bustling, full of
incident; memorable, momentous, signal. Adv. eventually; in the event
of, in case, just in case; in the course of things; as things, times
go; as the world goes, wags; as the tree falls, cat jumps; as it may
turn out, happen. Phr. that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way
the cookie crumbles; you never know what may turn up, you never know
what the future will bring; the plot thickens; "breasts the blows of
circumstance" [Tennyson]; "so runs round of life from hour to hour"
"sprinkled along the waste of years" [Tennyson][Keble].
_Future Events_
#152. Destiny.—N. destiny &c. (necessity) 601; future existence,
post existence; hereafter; future state, next world, world to come,
after life; futurity &c. 121; everlasting life, everlasting death;
life beyond the grave, world beyond the grave; prospect &c.
(expectation) 507. V. impend; hang over, lie over; threaten, loom,
await, come on, approach, stare one in the face; foreordain, preordain;
predestine, doom, have in store for. Adj. impending &c. v.; destined;
about to be, happen; coming, in store, to come, going to happen,
instant, at hand, near; near, close at hand; over hanging, hanging over
one's head, imminent; brewing, preparing, forthcoming; in the wind, on
the cards, in reserve; that will, is to be; in prospect &c. (expected)
507; looming in the distance, horizon, future; unborn, in embryo; in
the womb of time, futurity; pregnant &c. (producing) 161. Adv. in time,
the long run; all in good time; eventually &c. 151; whatever may happen
&c. (certainly) 474; as chance &c. 156 would have it.