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CHANGED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made or become different in some respect
Example:
he's an altered (or changed) man since his election to Congress
Classified under:
Similar:
altered (changed in form or character without becoming something else)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Made or become different in nature or form
Example:
a greatly changed country after the war
Classified under:
Similar:
denatured; denaturised; denaturized (changed in nature or natural quality)
exchanged (changed for (replaced by) something different)
transformed (given a completely different form or appearance)
varied (broken away from sameness or identity or duplication)
Antonym:
unchanged (not made or become different)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Changed in constitution or structure or composition by metamorphism
Example:
metamorphic rocks
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
metamorphic (characterized by metamorphosis or change in physical form or substance)
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb change
Context examples:
C-kit may also be found in higher than normal amounts, or in a changed form, on some types of cancer cells, including gastrointestinal stromal tumors and melanoma.
(C-kit, NCI Dictionary)
The rationale for why an entity or event is changed.
(Change Reason, NCI Thesaurus)
The pictures can be saved, changed to give better viewing angles, and reviewed after the procedure, even years later.
(Computed tomographic colonography, NCI Dictionary)
“Oh, don't you think he's changed?” said Mrs. Heep.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If the effects change when the dose of the drug is changed, the effects are said to be dose-dependent.
(Dose-dependent, NCI Dictionary)
The GH/IGF-I axis in chronic renal failure (CRF) is changed markedly compared with the normal axis.
(Food Intake and Energy Homeostasis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
The virus is changed in the laboratory to make human proteins that may help immune cells in the body kill tumor cells.
(Falimarev, NCI Dictionary)
In chemistry, refers to a simple substance that cannot be broken down into smaller parts or changed into another substance.
(Element, NCI Dictionary)
A method in which an image or other type of data is changed into a series of dots or numbers so that it can be viewed and studied on a computer.
(Digital image analysis, NCI Dictionary)
Several times Thornton started, as though to speak, but changed his mind.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
