Change vs Disease - 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.
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* 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.
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A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
A public house; an alehouse.
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(pathology) An abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (James Madison), Jr. (1751-1836)
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, title= (by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
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Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552 – 1599)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(, Suffers from 'everything but the kitchen sink' disease)
* acute respiratory disease (ARD)
* Addison's disease
* alcoholic liver disease
* Alzheimer's disease (AD)
* anterior horn cell disease
* aortoiliac occlusive disease (AOD)
* Appalachian Mountain disease
* area under disease progress curve (AUDPC)
* argyrophilic grain disease (AGD)
* Arkin's disease
* arteriosclerotic heart disease (ASHD)
* artery disease
* artery occlusive disease (AOD)
* artificial disease
* autoimmune disease
* autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED)
*
* Bamberger-Marie disease
* Bang's disease (brucellosis)
* Barcoo disease
* Basedow's disease
* Benson's disease (astroid hyalosis)
* Besnier-Boeck disease, Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease
* blackhead disease
* black urine disease
* blood disease
* Blount's disease
* blue ear disease
* bluetongue disease, blue tongue disease
* bomb-shell disease
* bone disease
* bone-thinning disease
* Borna disease (BD)
* Borna disease virus (BDV)
* brain disease
* brittle-bone disease
* brown lung disease (byssinosis)
* Bright's disease
* British disease
* Buerger's disease
* CADASIL disease
* caisson disease
* calculous biliary disease
* California disease
*
* Canavan disease
* cardiac disease
* cardiovascular disease (CVD)
* cat scratch disease (CSD)
* celiac disease, coeliac disease
* Central Mississippi River Valley disease (histomatosis)
* cerebrovascular disease (CVD)
* Chagas' disease (CD)
* (CMT)
* Charcot's disease, Charcot disease
* Christmas disease (haemophilia B, hemophilia B)
* chronic beryllium disease (CBD)
* chronic granulomatous disease (CGD)
* chronic inflammatory bowel disease (CIBD)
* chronic kidney disease (CKD)
* chronic obstructive airway disease (COAD)
* chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD)
* chronic renal disease (CRD)
* chronic respiratory disease (CRD)
* clinical disease
* clown fish disease
* coeliac disease, celiac disease
* conformational disease (CD)
* congenital metabolic disease
* connective tissue disease (CTD)
* coronary artery disease (CAD)
* coronary disease
* coronary heart disease (CHD)
* Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
* Crohn's disease (CD)
* Curschmann-Steinert disease
* cytomegalic inclusion disease (CID)
* Darling's disease
* deficiency disease
* degenerative joint disease (DJD)
* demyelinating disease
*
* diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD)
* disease management
* disease management program (DMP)
* disease-modifying
* disease mongering
* disease of affluence
* disease of civilisation, disease of civilization
* disease pattern
* diverticular disease (DD)
* Dubreuilh-Hutchinson disease
* Dupuytren's disease, Dupuytren disease
* Dutch disease
* Dutch elm disease
* Ebola virus disease (EVD)
* Eisenmenger disease, Eisenmenger's disease
* English disease
* extramammary Paget's disease (EMPD)
* farmer's disease
* fatty liver disease (FLD)
* fifth disease
* Filatov's disease, Filatov disease
* foot-and-mouth disease (FMD)
* foot-and-mouth disease virus
* French disease
* gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
* gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD)
* gastro-intestinal disease
* Gaucher's disease (GD)
* general disease
* generalized disease
* genetic disease
* genetic prion disease
* genital tract disease
* geriatric disease
* (GSD)
* gingival disease
* glycogen storage disease (GSD)
* graft-versus-host disease
* grapevine disease
* Graves' disease, Graves disease (GD)
* green monkey disease
* gross structural heart disease
* Guinea worm disease (GWD)
* haemolytic disease of the newborn, hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN)
* Haglund's disease
* (HFMD)
* Hansen's disease, Hansen disease (HD) (leprosy)
* heartworm disease
* Hirschsprung disease (Morbus Hirschsprung)
* HIV disease
* Hodgkin's disease (HD)
* Hoffa's disease
* hoof-and-mouth disease (HMD)
* hookworm disease
* Huntington's disease (HD)
* hyaline membrane disease (HMD)
* hypokinetic disease
* immune-mediated disease (IMD)
* immunocomplex disease
* immunoproliferative disease
* inflammatory airway disease (IAD)
* inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
* interstitial lung disease (ILD)
* intervertebral disk disease (IVDD)
* ischaemic heart disease, ischemic heart disease (IHD)
* kala-azar disease
* Kennedy's disease, Kennedy disease (KD)
* Kussmaul-Maier disease
* Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD)
* Larsen-Johansson disease
* leaf curl disease
* leaf spot disease
* Ledderhose's disease, Ledderhose disease
* legionnaires' disease
* Little's disease
* loco disease, locoweed disease
* Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS)
* Lyme disease (LD)
* lymphoproliferative disease (LPD)
* mad cow disease
* managerial disease
* maple syrup urine disease (MSUD)
* Marburger virus disease (MVD)
* Marburg virus disease (MVD)
* Marion's disease, Marion disease
* Martin's disease
* medullary cystic kidney disease (MCKD)
* (MD)
* mental disease
* metabolic bone disease (MBD)
* metabolic disease
* microvillus inclusion disease (MID)
* Minamata disease
* Miyasato's disease
* motor neuron disease (MND)
* Mondor's disease
* Monge's disease
* Mucha's disease
* Naito-Oyanagi disease (NOD)
* National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC)
* National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit (NCJDSU)
* neurocutaneous disease (NCD)
* neurodegenerative disease (ND)
* neuroimmunological disease
* neuromuscular disease (ND])
* neuronal intermediate filament inclusion disease (NIFID)
* Newcastle disease
* Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV)
* Niemann-Pick disease
* no appreciable disease (, NAD)
* nodding disease
* no evidence of disease (NED)
* non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
* notifiable disease
* obstructive airway disease (OAD)
* obstructive airways disease (OAD)
* obstructive disease
* occlusive disease (OD)
* occupational disease
* Ockelbo disease
* Ohio Valley disease (histoplasmosis)
* old-timers' disease (eggcorn for Alzheimer's disease)
* Ollier's disease
* organic disease
* orphan disease
* Osgood-Schlatter's disease
* paediatric disease, pediatric disease
* Paget's disease of bone, Paget's disease
* Paget's disease of the breast
* Paget-Schroetter disease,
* Panama disease
* Panner's disease
* Parkinson's disease (PD)
* parrot disease (psittacosis)
* pearl disease
* pearly disease
* pediatric disease, paediatric disease
* Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease, Pelizaeus-Merzbacher's disease (PMD)
* pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
* Pendred disease (Pendred syndrome)
* peptic ulcer disease (PUD)
* peripheral artery disease (PAD)
* peripheral artery occlusive disease (PAOD)
* peripheral occlusive disease (POD)
* peripheral vascular disease (PVD)
* Perthes' disease (PD)
* Peyronie's disease (Induratio penis plastica) (IPP)
* Pfeiffer's disease
* Pick's disease
* pigeon breeder's disease
* plant virus disease
* pneumatic hammer disease
* polycystic kidney disease (PKD)
* polycystic liver disease (PLD)
* Pott's disease
* Posadas-Wernicke disease
* prion disease
* protein misfolding disease (PMD)
* protein-folding disease
* pullorum disease
* Purtscher's disease
* radiation-induced liver disease (RILD)
* Raynaud's disease
* reactive airway disease (RAD)
* rebellious disease
* Recklinghausen disease
* renal disease
* rickettsial disease
* Riggs' disease
* round heart disease
* Roth-Bernhardt disease (Meralgia paraesthetica)
* Schamberg disease
* Scheuermann's disease (SD)
* Schimmelbusch's disease
* Schneeberg disease, Schneeberg lung disease
* Seitelberger's disease, Seitelberger disease
* serum disease
* sexually transmitted disease (STD)
* shothole disease
* sickle cell disease
* silver leaf disease
* sixth disease
* skin disease
* Steinert disease
* stone disease
* stress disease
* structural heart disease
* subclinical disease
* swainsonine disease
* swineherder's disease
* swineherd's disease
* swine vesicular disease (SVD)
* Takahara's disease
* Takatsuki disease (POEMS syndrome)
* Thiemann's disease
* tomato disease
* urinary bladder disease
* valvular heart disease (VHD)
* variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)
* venereal disease (VD)
* venous disease
* vine disease
* viral disease
* viral haemorrhagic disease, viral hemorrhagic disease (VHD)
* vocational disease
* von Willebrand disease (vWD)
* Weil's disease
* white muscle disease (WMD)
* white spot disease
* widespread disease
* Wilson's disease (WD)
* wilt disease
* wind disease (TCM)
* wobbler disease
* woolsorter's disease
* zoonotic disease
* zymotic disease
(obsolete) To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke VIII:
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
To infect with a disease.
As verbs the difference between change and disease
is that change is to become something different while disease is to cause unease; to annoy, irritate.As nouns the difference between change and disease
is that change is the process of becoming different while disease is an abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.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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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
*disease
English
Noun
(wikipedia disease) (en noun)- The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.
- Diseases desperate grown, / By desperate appliances are relieved.
- The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished.
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citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes
The British Longitude Act Reconsidered, passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.}}
- War is not man's great and terrible disease'; war is a symptom, a result. The real ' disease is the virus of national sovereignty.
- So all that night they passed in great disease .
- to shield thee from diseases of the world
Synonyms
* affliction * ailment * complaint * ill health * illness * malady * medical condition * morbus * rot * sickness *Derived terms
Verb
(diseas)- Whyll he yett speake, there cam won from the rulers off the synagogis housse, which sayde to hym: Thy doughter is deed, disease not the master.
- mote he soft himselfe appease, / And fairely fare on foot, how euer loth; / His double burden did him sore disease .