Change vs Deconvert - What's the difference?
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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.
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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 undergo a deconversion from a religion, faith or belief or (transitive) to induce (someone) to reject a particular religion, faith, or belief.
* 1933 , Sinclair Lewis, Ann Vickers , Doubleday, Doran & company, inc.,
* 1961 , Catholic University of America, Herman Joseph Heuser, The American Ecclesiastical Review , Catholic University of America Press, etc.,
* 2003 , Phil Zuckerman, Invitation to the Sociology of Religion , Routledge (UK), ISBN 0415941253,
* 2005 , Anne Schiller, 'Our Heart Always Remembers, We Think of the Words as Long as We Live': Sacred Songs and the Revitalization of Indigenous Religion Among the Indonesian Ngaju'', read in Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern (editors), ''Expressive Genres and Historical Change: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan , Ashgate Publishing Ltd, ISBN 0754644189,
To revert or (transitive) to restore.
* 1941 , United States Congress: House: Appropriations, Fifth Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Bill for 1941: Hearings ... 77th Congress... ,
* 2000 , Linda E. Reksten, Using Technology to Increase Student Learning , Corwin Press, ISBN 0803968140,
* 2001 , Nuclear Energy Agency, Management of Depleted Uranium: A Joint Report , Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, ISBN 9264195254,
* 2005 , Alexander Gelbukh, LINK (Online service), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 6th International Conference, CICLing 2005 , Springer, ISBN 3540245235,
To change a building that has been converted to a new use back to its original use; specifically to change a house that has been converted into apartments or flats back to a single-family dwelling.
* 1963 , William E Glynn, Leadership Roles'' read in Paul Vernon Betters (editor), ''City Problems: The Annual Proceedings of the United States Conference of Mayors , City Problems: The Annual Proceedings of the United States Conference of Mayors,
* 1968 , New York (State): Governor's Commission Appointed to Review New York State's Abortion Law, Report... ,
* 2002 , Paul N. Balchin, Maureen Rhoden, Housing Policy: An Introduction , Routledge (UK), ISBN 041525213X,
* 2005 , United States Congress: House: Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census, A Top to Bottom Review of the Three-Decades-Old Community Development Block Grant Program... , ISBN 0160726964,
As verbs the difference between change and deconvert
is that change is to become something different while deconvert is to undergo a deconversion from a religion, faith or belief or (transitive) to induce (someone) to reject a particular religion, faith, or belief.As nouns the difference between change and deconvert
is that change is (countable) the process of becoming different while deconvert is an apostate.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.}}
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- 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?
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- 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
*deconvert
English
Verb
(en verb)- She has deconverted from Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc.
- They tried to deconvert him.
p. 80
- Oh, I'm not going to try to deconvert them. No! Let them keep their faith, if they like it.
p. 236,
- The very devout and older Catholics are naturally inclined to see in the sudden North American fury to deconvert and decatholicize Hispanic America an enterprise that is not inspired by Christ but by the Devil, some sort of spiritual rape of the Latin republics.
p. 29,
- The sociologist studying Mormonism is not out there to deconvert people, engage in historical or theological debates, destroy worldviews, or the like.
p.111,
- Some older adherents of Kaharingan reportedly deconvert from the traditional faith to Christianity for fear that their offspring will not conduct proper mortuary rituals on their behalf when it becomes necessary.
p. 122,
- We must arrange to deconvert chartered vessels if the owner so desires. He may want them put back in the same condition as when chartered.
p. 140,
- Most compression utilities...can convert and deconvert binhex files.
p. 21,
- Other organisations have investigated similar technologies or are developing alternative technologies to deconvert UF6 to a stable oxide UF4 or metal form.
p.373,
- To generate the MA corresponding to a UNL graph, generate an “extended instance” of the UNL graph for each possible variant in that language, deconvert these UNL graphs, then continue as with normal translation...
p. 86,
- Roofs were repaired, houses were painted, and rooming houses converted back to single family residences. And meanwhile the owners have spent about $60000 to deconvert' the building to its legal use...Orders to ' deconvert buildings which had been cut up into smaller apartments totaled 156 last year compared with 77 in 1961.
p. 76,
- The most effective injunction issued was to compel owners to deconvert buildings illegally converted to their original architectural structure.
p. 138,
- The supply of furnished accommodation might decline because landlords faced with rent regulation would prefer to occupy the whole of the property themselves, leave it empty or, given a house price boom, deconvert for owner-occupation.
p. 47,
- We've done a reasonably good job of trying to deconvert back to an owner-occupied setting.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "deconvert")References
*Problems in deconversion
