Change vs Salt - 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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A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
* c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London:
(chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
(uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
(slang) A sailor .
* 1850 , Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick ,
(cryptography) Randomly]] chosen bytes added to a plaintext message prior to encrypting it, in order to render [[brute force, brute-force decryption more difficult.
A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
(obsolete) flavour; taste; seasoning
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) piquancy; wit; sense
(obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
* Samuel Pepys
(figurative) That which preserves from corruption or error, or purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction.
* Bible, Matthew v. 13
Salty; salted.
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(figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
* (William Shakespeare)
(figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
To add salt to.
To deposit salt as a saline solution.
(mining) To blast gold into (as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be a productive seam.
(cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
To include colorful language in.
To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
(archaeology) To add bogus evidence to an archeological site.
To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
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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
*salt
English
Noun
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- Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts .
- I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt , do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.
- Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen we have some salt of our youth in us.
- Attic salt
- I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts .
- His statements must be taken with a grain of salt .
- Ye are the salt of the earth.
Derived terms
* chicken salt * desalt * Epsom salt * persalt * pinch of salt * protosalt * rock salt * rub salt in the wound / rub salt in a wound * salt and pepper * saltcellar * salt lake * Salt Lake City * salt marsh * salt of the earth * salt sea * saltwater * salty * sea salt * table salt * take with a pinch of salt *Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
- I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me.
- (Shakespeare)
Verb
(en verb)- to salt fish, beef, or pork
- The brine begins to salt .