Dictionary entry details
• CHANGE OVER (verb)
Meaning:
Make a shift in or exchange of
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
change over; shift; switch
Context example:
First Joe led; then we switched
Hypernyms (to "change over" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "change over"):
back (shift to a counterclockwise direction)
veer (shift to a clockwise direction)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
change over; convert
Context example:
We converted from 220 to 110 Volt
Hypernyms (to "change over" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "change over"):
decimalise; decimalize (change to the decimal system)
compost (convert to compost)
dress (convert into leather)
tan (treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather)
fossilise; fossilize (convert to a fossil)
nitrify (convert into nitric acid, nitrous acid, or nitrate, especially with the action of nitrobacteria)
reclaim (make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state)
flour (convert grain into flour)
metricate; metricise; metricize; metrify (convert from a non-metric to the metric system)
immobilise; immobilize (convert (assets) into fixed capital)
transduce (cause transduction (of energy forms))
float (convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
