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substitute, Colloq swap or swop: I won't be a minute, I just
want to change my shoes. I'd like to change this shirt for a
larger size. 6 modify, alter, modulate; mutate, transform,
metamorphose: Antoinette has changed since her marriage. I
never thought anyone would be able to make her change her mind.
7 fluctuate, shift, vary; vacillate: The temperature often
changes very rapidly here. 8 change to or into. turn into,
become, transform, mutate, transmute, convert, metamorphose:
The alchemists tried to change base metal into gold. Every
winter changes into spring - sooner or later.
changeable
adj. 1 variable, mutable, protean, inconstant, unstable,
unsettled, shifting, uncertain, irregular, uneven,
unpredictable, labile, capricious, erratic, fickle, unreliable,
undependable, mercurial, volatile: The weather has been
changeable for the past week. 2 alterable, modifiable,
transformable, convertible: Their meeting-places were
changeable and known only to them.
changeless
adj. 1 unchanging, unvaried, eternal, permanent, fixed, stable;
unchangeable, immutable, unalterable, inevitable, uniform: We
studied photographs of the changeless Martian landscape. The
fundamental truths of the Gospel are changeless. 2 abiding,
permanent, constant, perpetual, everlasting, steadfast,
unvarying, unchanging: Nothing could alter my changeless love
for you.
channel n. 1 watercourse, canal, waterway, ditch, aqueduct, sluice,
trench, trough, gutter, moat; river-bed, stream-bed: The
engineers dug a channel to drain the swamp. 2 strait, narrows,
neck: The English Channel connects the North Sea with the
Atlantic Ocean. 3 furrow, groove, flute: The channels cut into
this column are not straight. 4 course, means, way, approach,
avenue, medium, path, artery, conduit: We have to open a new
channel of communication with the terrorists.
--v. 5 direct, convey, pass, guide, lead, conduct: Their
grievances are being channelled through the information officer.
chant n. 1 song, psalm, hymn, canticle, plainsong, plainchant,
mantra, paean, dirge, monody, descant, carol; singsong: The war