Word Meanings - METAMORPHOSIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Changing the form; transforming. Pownall.

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• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• CHANGEABLY
  In a changeable manner.
• TRANSFORMATION
  The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: --
• CHANGE
  1. To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame. Hosea. iv. 7. 2. To alter by
• TRANSFORM
  To be changed in form; to be metamorphosed. His hair transforms to down. Addison.
• TRANSFORMISM
  The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis. Huxley.
• CHANGEABLE
  1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor. 2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk. Syn. -- Mutable; alterable;
• TRANSFORMER
  One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. , an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.
• TRANSFORMABLE
  Capable of being transformed or changed.
• CHANGER
  1. One who changes or alters the form of anything. 2. One who deals in or changes money. John ii. 14. 3. One apt to change; an inconstant person.
• CHANGEABLENESS
  The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.
• CHANGELING
  1. One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies. Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies' theft. Spenser. The changeling never known. Shak. 2. A simpleton; an idiot. Macaulay.
• CHANGEABILITY
  Changeableness.
• TRANSFORMATIVE
  Having power, or a tendency, to transform.
• CHANGE GEAR
  A gear by means of which the speed of machinery or of a vehicle may be changed while that of the propelling engine or motor remains constant; -- called also change-speed gear.
• CHANGELESS
  That can not be changed; constant; as, a changeless purpose. -- Change"less*ness, n.
• CHANGE KEY
  A key adapted to open only one of a set of locks; -- distinguished from a master key.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• COUNTERCHANGED
  Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
• COUNTERCHANGE
  1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.
• INTERCHANGEABILITY
  The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.
• ARCHANGELIC
  Of or pertaining to archangels; of the nature of, or resembling, an archangel. Milton.
• EXCHANGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being exchangeable. The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington.
• INCHANGEABILITY
  Unchangeableness. Kenrick.
• TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
  A central office in which the wires of telephones may be connected to permit conversation.
• RECHANGE
  To change again, or change back.
• PHASING TRANSFORMER
  Any of several transformers for changing phase.
• PARALLEL TRANSFORMER
  A transformer connected in parallel.
• AUTOTRANSFORMER
  A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.
• OVERCHANGE
  Too much or too frequent change; fickleness. Beau. & Fl.