Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 41
Change (n.) A public house; an alehouse. [Scot.]
They call an alehouse a change. -- Burt.
Change (n.) (Mus.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing. -- Holder.
{Change of life}, The period in the life of a woman when menstruation and the capacity for conception cease, usually occurring between forty-five and fifty years of age.
{Change ringing}, The continual production, without repetition, of changes on bells, See def. 9. above.
{Change wheel} (Mech.), One of a set of wheels of different sizes and number of teeth, that may be changed or substituted one for another in machinery, to produce a different but definite rate of angular velocity in an axis, as in cutting screws, gear, etc.
{To ring the changes on}, To present the same facts or arguments in variety of ways.
Syn: Variety; variation; alteration; mutation; transition; vicissitude; innovation; novelty; transmutation; revolution; reverse.
Change (n.) An event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another; "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago" [syn: {change}, {alteration}, {modification}].
Change (n.) A relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event; "he attributed the change to their marriage".
Change (n.) The action of changing something; "the change of government had no impact on the economy"; "his change on abortion cost him the election".
Change (n.) The result of alteration or modification; "there were marked changes in the lining of the lungs"; "there had been no change in the mountains".
Change (n.) The balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due; "I paid with a twenty and pocketed the change".
Change (n.) A thing that is different; "he inspected several changes before selecting one".
Change (n.) A different or fresh set of clothes; "she brought a change in her overnight bag".
Change (n.) Coins of small denomination regarded collectively; "he had a pocketful of change".
Change (n.) Money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency; "he got change for a twenty and used it to pay the taxi driver".
Change (n.) A difference that is usually pleasant; "he goes to France for variety"; "it is a refreshing change to meet a woman mechanic" [syn: {variety}, {change}].
Change (v.) Cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" [syn: {change}, {alter}, {modify}].
Change (v.) Undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" [ant: {remain}, {rest}, {stay}].
Change (v.) Become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season" [syn: {change}, {alter}, {vary}].
Change (v.) Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes" [syn: {switch}, {shift}, {change}].
Change (v.) Change clothes; put on different clothes; "Change before you go to the opera".
Change (v.) Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares" [syn: {change}, {exchange}, {commute}, {convert}].
Change (v.) Give to, and receive from, one another; "Would you change places with me?"; "We have been exchanging letters for a year" [syn: {exchange}, {change}, {interchange}].
Change (v.) Change from one vehicle or transportation line to another; "She changed in Chicago on her way to the East coast" [syn: {transfer}, {change}].
Change (v.) Become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password" [syn: {deepen}, {change}].
Change (v.) Remove or replace the coverings of; "Father had to learn how to change the baby"; "After each guest we changed the bed linens".
Change (n.). The exchange of money for money. The giving, for example, dollars for eagles, dimes for dollars, cents for dimes. This is a contract which always takes place in the same place. By change is also understood small money. Poth. Contr. de Change, n. 1.
Changeability (n.) 易變性；可變性 Changeableness.
Changeability (n.) The quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change; "the changeableness of the weather" [syn: changeableness, changeability] [ant: changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness].
Changeable (a.) 易變的；不定的；可改變的，可能被改變的 Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.
Changeable (a.) Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk.
Syn: Mutable; alterable; variable; inconstant; fitful; vacillating; capricious; fickle; unstable; unsteady; unsettled; wavering; erratic; giddy; volatile.
Changeable (a.) Capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature; "a mutable substance"; "the mutable ways of fortune"; "mutable weather patterns"; "a mutable foreign policy" [syn: mutable, changeable] [ant: changeless, immutable].
Changeable (a.) Such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change; "changeable behavior"; "changeable moods"; "changeable prices" [syn: changeable, changeful] [ant: unchangeable].
Changeable (a.) Subject to change; "a changeable climate"; "the weather is uncertain"; "unsettled weather with rain and hail and sunshine coming one right after the other" [syn: changeable, uncertain, unsettled].
Changeable (a.) Varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; "changeable taffeta"; "chatoyant (or shot) silk"; "a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent" [syn: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot].
Changeableness (n.) 易變性 The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.
Changeableness (n.) The quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change; "the changeableness of the weather" [syn: changeableness, changeability] [ant: changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness].
Changeably (adv.) 多變地；不安定地 In a changeable manner.
Changeful (a.) Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. -- Pope.
His course had been changeful. -- Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
Changeful (a.) Such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change; "changeable behavior"; "changeable moods"; "changeable prices" [syn: changeable, changeful] [ant: unchangeable].
Changeless (a.) 不變的；單調的 That can not be changed; constant; as, a changeless purpose. -- {Change"less*ness}, n.
Changeless (a.) Not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature; "the view of that time was that all species were immutable, created by God" [syn: {immutable}, {changeless}] [ant: {changeable}, {mutable}].
Changeless (a.) Unvarying in nature; "maintained a constant temperature"; "principles of unvarying validity" [syn: {changeless}, {constant}, {invariant}, {unvarying}].
Changeless (a.) Remaining the same for indefinitely long times [syn: {changeless}, {unalterable}].
Changeling (n.) 矮小醜陋的小孩；【古】低能兒；（民間傳說）暗中被偷換而留下的醜怪小孩 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 [a substituted writing] never known. -- Shak.
Changeling (n.) A simpleton; an idiot. -- Macauly.
Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out.
Wildly we roam in discontent about. -- Dryden.
Changeling (n.) One apt to change; a waverer. "Fickle changelings." -- Shak.
Changeling (a.) Taken or left in place of another; changed. "A little changeling boy." -- Shak.
Changeling (a.) Given to change; inconstant. [Obs.]
Some are so studiously changeling. -- Boyle.
Changeling (a.) A person of subnormal intelligence [syn: {idiot}, {imbecile}, {cretin}, {moron}, {changeling}, {half-wit}, {retard}].
Changeling (a.) A child secretly exchanged for another in infancy.
Changer (n.) One who changes or alters the form of anything.
Changer (n.) One who deals in or changes money. -- John ii. 14.
Changer (n.) One apt to change; an inconstant person.
Changer (n.) An electronic device which changes one replaceable medium for another, such as a record changer, which can store several records and move each one automatically to the playing table; or a CD changer, whch can store multiple compact disks and move each one to the reading slot, in a sequence determined by the user.
Changer (n.) A person who changes something; "an inveterate changer of the menu" [syn: changer, modifier]
Changer (n.) An automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention [syn: record changer, auto-changer, changer].
Chank (n.) (Zool.) The East Indian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Called also chank chell.
Channel (n.) The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
Channel (n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.
Channel (n.) (Geog.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.
Channel (n.) That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels.
The veins are converging channels. -- Dalton.
At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know. -- Burke.
Channel (n.) A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
Channel (n.) pl. (Naut.) Flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
Channel (n.) pl. Official routes of communication, especially the official means by which information should be transmitted in a bureaucracy; as, to submit a request through channels; you have to go through channels.
Channel (n.) A band of electromagnetic wave frequencies that is used for one-way or two-way radio communication; especially, the frequency bands assigned by the FTC for use in television broadcasting, and designated by a specific number; as, channel 2 in New York is owned by CBS.
Channel (n.) One of the signals in an electronic device which receives or sends more than one signal simultaneously, as in stereophonic radios, records, or CD players, or in measuring equipment which gathers multiple measurements simultaneously.
Channel (n.) (Cell biology) An opening in a cell membrane which serves to actively transport or allow passive transport of substances across the membrane; as, an ion channel in a nerve cell.
Channel (n.) (Computers) a path for transmission of signals between devices within a computer or between a computer and an external device; as, a DMA channel.
Channel bar, Channel iron (Arch.), An iron bar or beam
having a section resembling a flat gutter or channel.
Channel bill (Zool.), A very large Australian cuckoo
({Scythrops Nov[ae]hollandi[ae].
Channel goose. (Zool.) See Gannet.
Channeled (imp. & p. p.) of Channel.
Channelled () of Channel.
Channeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Channel.
Channelling () of Channel.
Channel (v. t.) To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove.
No more shall trenching war channel her fields. -- Shak.
Channel (v. t.) To course through or over, as in a channel. -- Cowper.
Channel (n.) A path over which electrical signals can pass; "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company" [syn: channel, transmission channel].
Channel (n.) A passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through; "the fields were crossed with irrigation channels"; "gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street".
Channel (n.) A long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) [syn: groove, channel].
Channel (n.) A deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels; "the ship went aground in the channel".
Channel (n.) (Often plural) A means of communication or access; "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between the two firms" [syn: channel, communication channel, line].
Channel (n.) A bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; "the tear duct was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs" [syn: duct, epithelial duct, canal, channel].
Channel (n.) A television station and its programs; "a satellite TV channel"; "surfing through the channels"; "they offer more than one hundred channels" [syn: channel, television channel, TV channel].
Channel (n.) A way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors; "possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores" [syn: distribution channel, channel].
Channel (v.) Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel].
Channel (v.) Direct the flow of; "channel information towards a broad audience" [syn: channel, canalize, canalise].
Channel (v.) Send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise].
Channel (n.) [IRC] The basic unit of discussion on IRC. Once one joins a channel, everything one types is read by others on that channel. Channels are named with strings that begin with a ?#? sign and can have topic descriptions (which are generally irrelevant to the actual subject of discussion). Some notable channels are #initgame, #hottub, callahans, and #report. At times of international crisis, #report has hundreds of members, some of whom take turns listening to various news services and typing in summaries of the news, or in some cases, giving first-hand accounts of the action (e.g., Scud missile attacks in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War in 1991).
Channel
Chat room
Room
(Or "chat room", "room", depending on the system in question) The basic unit of group discussion in chat systems like IRC. Once one joins a channel, everything one types is read by others on that channel. Channels can either be named with numbers or with strings that begin with a "#" sign and can have topic descriptions (which are generally irrelevant to the actual subject of discussion).
Some notable channels are "#initgame", "#hottub" and "#report". At times of international crisis, "#report" has hundreds of members, some of whom take turns listening to various news services and typing in summaries of the news, or in some cases, giving first-hand accounts of the action (e.g. Scud missile attacks in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War in 1991).
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Channel, () The bed of the sea or of a river (Ps. 18:15; Isa. 8:7).
Channel, () The "chanelbone" (Job 31:22 marg.), properly "tube" or "shaft," an old term for the collar-bone.
Channeling (n.) The act or process of forming a channel or channels.
Channeling (n.) A channel or a system of channels; a groove.
Chanson (n.) A song. -- Shak.
Chansonnettes (n. pl. ) of Chansonnette
Chansonnette (n.) A little song.
These pretty little chansonnettes that he sung. -- Black.
Chanted (imp. & p. p.) of Chant.
Chanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chant.
Chant (v. t.) To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.
Chant (v. t.) To celebrate in song.
Chant (v. t.) To sing or recite after the manner of a chant, or to a tune called a chant.
Chant (v. i.) To make melody with the voice; to sing. "Chant to the sound of the viol." -- Amos vi. 5.
Chant (v. i.) (Mus.) To sing, as in reciting a chant.
To chant horses or To chaunt horses, To sing their praise; to overpraise; to cheat in selling. See Chaunter. -- Thackeray.
Chant (n.) Song; melody.
Chant (n.) (Mus.) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
Chant (n.) A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting.
Chant (n.) Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone. [R.]
His strange face, his strange chant. -- Macaulay.
Ambrosian chant, See under Ambrosian.
Chant royal [F.], In old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. -- each of these six parts ending with a common refrain.
Gregorian chant. See under Gregorian.
Chant (n.) A repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone.
Chant (v.) Recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm; "The rabbi chanted a prayer" [syn: chant, intone, intonate, cantillate].
Chant (v.) Utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again" [syn: tone, chant, intone].
Chantant (a.) (Mus.) Composed in a melodious and singing style.
Chanter (n.) One who chants; a singer or songster. -- Pope.
Chanter (n.) The chief singer of the chantry. -- J. Gregory.
Chanter (n.) The flute or finger pipe in a bagpipe. See Bagpipe.
Chanter (n.) (Zool.) The hedge sparrow.
Chanter (n.) Reed pipe with finger holes on which the melody is played [syn: chanter, melody pipe].
Chanterelle (n.) A name for several species of mushroom, of which one (Cantharellus cibrius) is edible, the others reputed poisonous.
Chanticleer (n.) A cock, so called from the clearness or loudness of his voice in crowing.
Chanting (n.) Singing, esp. as a chant is sung.
Chantor (n.) A chanter.
Chantress (n.) A female chanter or singer.
Chantries (n. pl. ) of Chantry.
Chantry (n.) An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.
Chantry (n.) A chapel or altar so endowed.
Chaomancy (n.) Divination by means of appearances in the air.
Chaos (n.) A property of some non-linear dynamic systems which exhibit sensitive dependence on initial conditions. This means that there are initial states which evolve within some finite time to states whose separation in one or more dimensions of state space depends, in an average sense, exponentially on their initial separation.
Such systems may still be completely deterministic in that any future state of the system depends only on the initial conditions and the equations describing the change of the system with time. It may, however, require arbitrarily high precision to actually calculate a future state to within some finite precision.
Fixed precision floating-point arithmetic, as used by most computers, may actually introduce chaotic dependence on initial conditions due to the accumulation of rounding errors (which constitutes a non-linear system). (1995-02-07)
CHAOS (Acronym) Cambridge Heart Anti-Oxidant Study.
Chaos (n.) [U] 混亂；雜亂的一團（或一堆等）；【書】（亦大寫）（宇宙形成前的）混沌 An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm. [Archaic]
Between us and there is fixed a great chaos. -- Luke xvi. 26 (Rhemish Trans.).
Chaos (n.) The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and orderly forms.
Chaos (n.) Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.
Chaos (n.) A state of extreme confusion and disorder [syn: {chaos}, {pandemonium}, {bedlam}, {topsy-turvydom}, {topsy- turvyness}].
Chaos (n.) The formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos.
Chaos (n.) (Greek mythology) The most ancient of gods; the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe.
Chaos (n.) (Physics) A dynamical System that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions.
Chaotic (a.) 混亂的；雜亂無章的；無秩序的 Resembling chaos; confused.
Chaotic (a.) Lacking a visible order or organization [syn: chaotic, helter-skelter].
Chaotic (a.) Completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing [syn: chaotic, disorderly].
Chaotic (a.) Of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions.
Chaotically (adv.) 混亂地；亂糟糟地 In a chaotic manner.
Chaotically (adv.) In a wild and confused manner; "the drugged man was talking chaotically".
Chaotically (adv.) In a manner suggestive of chaos; "the room was chaotically disorganized".
Chapped (imp. & p. p.) of Chap.
Chapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chap.
Chap (v. t.) 使皸裂；使龜裂 To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
Chap (v. t.) To strike; to beat.
Chap (v. i.) To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
Chap (v. i.) 出現皸裂；出現龜裂 To strike; to knock; to rap.
Chap (n.) 皸裂；龜裂 [P1] A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
Chap (n.) A division; a breach, as in a party.
Chap (n.) A blow; a rap.
Chap (n.) One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
Chap (n.) One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
Chap (n.) A buyer; a chapman.
Chap (n.) A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
Chap (v. i.) To bargain; to buy.
Chaparral (n.) 叢林 A thicket of low evergreen oaks.
Chaparral (n.) An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.
Chaparral cock; fem. Chaparral hen (Zool.), a bird of the cuckoo family ({Geococcyx Californianus), noted for running with great speed. It ranges from California to Mexico and eastward to Texas; -- called also road runner, ground cuckoo, churea, and snake killer. It is the state bird of New Mexico. chapati
Chaparral (n.) Dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes [syn: scrub, chaparral, bush].
Chaparral, NM -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New Mexico
Population (2000): 6117
Housing Units (2000): 2134
Land area (2000): 38.759454 sq. miles (100.386522 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 38.759454 sq. miles (100.386522 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14250
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 32.039072 N, 106.429630 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 88021
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Chaparral, NM
Chaparral
Chapbook (n.) Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.
Chape (n.) 包銅；銅環（扣在皮帶上的） The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.
Chape (n.) The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.
Chape (n.) The metal plate or tip which protects the end of a scabbard, belt, etc. -- Knight.
Chapeux (n. pl. ) of Chapeau
Chapeau (n.) A hat or covering for the head.
Chapeau (n.) A cap of maintenance. See Maintenance.
Chaped (p. p. or a.) Furnished with a chape or chapes. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Chapel (n.) （附屬於大教堂的）小禮拜堂 [C]；（學校、醫院、王宮等的）附屬禮拜堂 [C]；（教堂內的）私人祈禱室 [C] A subordinate place of worship.
Chapel (n.) A small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial.
Chapel (n.) A small building attached to a church.
Chapel (n.) A room or recess in a church, containing an altar.
Note: In Catholic churches, and also in cathedrals and abbey churches, chapels are usually annexed in the recesses on the sides of the aisles. -- Gwilt.
Chapel (n.) A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
Chapel (n.) In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
Chapel (n.) A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
Chapel (n.) (Print.) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
Chapel (n.) (Print.) An association of workmen in a printing office.
{Chapel of ease}. A chapel or dependent church built for the ease or a accommodation of an increasing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church.
{Chapel of ease}. A privy. (Law)
{Chapel master}, A director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra.
{To build a chapel} (Naut.), To chapel a ship. See {Chapel}, v. t., 2.
{To hold a chapel}, To have a meeting of the men employed in a printing office, for the purpose of considering questions affecting their interests.
Chapel (v. t.) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Chapel (v. t.) (Naut.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
Chapel (n.) A place of worship that has its own altar.
Chapel (n.) A service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar; "he was late for chapel" [syn: {chapel service}, {chapel}].
Chapel (n.) A holy place or sanctuary, occurs only in Amos 7:13, where one of the idol priests calls Bethel "the king's chapel."