Change vs Adjust - What's the difference?
change | adjust |
To become something different.
(ergative) To make something into something different.
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To replace one's clothing.
To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
(archaic) To exchange.
* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 1 scene 2
* 1662 , Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
To change hand while riding (a horse).
(countable) The process of becoming different.
* {{quote-magazine, title=The climate of Tibet: Pole-land
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(uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
(countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes
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(uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
(countable) A transfer between vehicles.
(baseball) A change-up pitch.
(lb) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
* Holder
A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
A public house; an alehouse.
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To modify.
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, title= To improve or rectify.
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To settle an insurance claim.
To change to fit circumstances.
Adjust is a synonym of change.
In intransitive terms the difference between change and adjust
is that change is to transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc. while adjust is to change to fit circumstances.In transitive terms the difference between change and adjust
is that change is to replace while adjust is to settle an insurance claim.As a noun change
is the process of becoming different.change
English
Verb
(chang)citation, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
- At the first sight / they have changed eyes. (exchanged looks )
- I would give any thing to change a word or two with this person.
- to change a horse
Synonyms
* (to make something different) alter, modify * (to make something into something different) transformDerived terms
* changeable * change by reversal * change course * change direction * changeful * change out * change hands * change horses in midstream * change integrity * changeling * change one's mind * change one's tune * change places * change tack * change the channel * change the subject * change up * chop and change * everchanging * get changed * leopard change his spots * presto change-o *Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change , the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
- The product is undergoing a change in order to improve it.
- Can I get change for this $100 bill please?
citation, page= , passage=After beating champions Chelsea 3-1 on Boxing Day, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger made eight changes to his starting XI in an effort to freshen things up, with games against Birmingham and Manchester City to come in the next seven days.}}
- A customer who pays with a 10-pound note for a £9 item receives one pound in change .
- The train journey from Bristol to Nottingham includes a change at Birmingham.
- Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing.
- They call an alehouse a change .
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "change": big, small, major, minor, dramatic, drastic, rapid, slow, gradual, radical, evolutionary, revolutionary, abrupt, sudden, unexpected, incremental, social, economic, organizational, technological, personal, cultural, political, technical, environmental, institutional, educational, genetic, physical, chemical, industrial, geological, global, local, good, bad, positive, negative, significant, important, structural, strategic, tactical.Synonyms
(the process of becoming different) transition, transformationDerived terms
* and change * breaking change * bureau de change * chump change * cool change * change agent * change key * change-off * change of heart * change of innings * change of life * change of mind * change of state * change order * change ringing * change-up * chemical change * chump change * climate change * deflection change * fatty change * net change * oil change * phase change * quick-change * regime change * sea change * seed change * sex change * shortchange * small change * sound change * spare change * step change * technological change * the changeSee also
* modification * mutation * evolution * exchange * reorganizationReferences
*adjust
English
Verb
(en verb)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}