Change the subject

Definition

change /tʃeÇndʒ/ v ၁။ ေျပာင္းလဲသည္။ You've changed a lot since I last saw you. ❍ Our plans have changed. ❍ a changing world ❍ change one's attitude/ideas/opinion ❍ an event which changed the course of history ❍ a changed man/appearance ❍ changed circumstances. ၂။ (က) ~ (sb/sth) (from sth) to/into sth အသြင္ေျပာင္းသည္။ Caterpillars change into butterflies or moths. ❍ The witch changed the prince into a frog. ❍ They changed the little cottage into a splendid house. (ခ) ~ (sb/sth) (from A) (to/into B) (တစ္ခုမွတစ္ခုသို႔၊ တစ္ဆင့္မွတစ္ဆင့္သို႔) ေျပာင္းသည္၊ ေျပာင္းလဲေစသည္။ The traffic lights have changed (from red to green). ❍ Britain changed to a metric system of currency in 1971. ❍ War had changed him from a boy into a man. ၃။ (က) ~ sb/sth (for sb/sth) ; ~ sth (to sth) ေျပာင္းလဲအစားထိုးသည္။ လဲလွယ္သည္။ change one's doctor ❍ change one's job ❍ change one's address (ie move to a new home) ❍ change a light bulb ❍ change gear (ie use a different gear in a car, etc in order to travel at a higher or lower speed) ❍ I must change my shirt (ie put on a clean one). ❍ I'm thinking of changing my car for a bigger one. ❍ He suddenly changed his manner to a more sympathetic one. ❍ She changed her name to his when they got married. (ခ) အေျခအေန၊ အေနအထား၊ ဦးတည္ရာ၊ ဘက္ စသည္ ေျပာင္းသည္။ The leaves change colour in the autumn. ❍ change sides (eg in a war, debate, etc) ❍ At half-time the teams changed ends. ❍ The ship changed course (ie began to travel in a different direction). ❍ The wind has changed direction. (ဂ) ~ sth (with sb) (used with a plural object) ေနရာေျပာင္းသည္။ Can we change seats?/Can I change seats with you? (ဃ) ~ (from sth to sth) ရထား၊ ဘတ္စကား ေျပာင္းစီးသည္။ Change trains at Crewe for Stockport. ❍ This is where we change from train to bus. ❍ All change! (ie This train stops here; everyone must leave it. ) (င) (အဝတ္၊ ခင္းႏီွးစသည္) လဲေပးသည္။ change (ie put a clean NAPPYon) the baby ❍ change (ie put clean sheets on) the beds. ၄။ ~ sth (for/into sth) ေငြ လဲသည္။ Can you change a five-pound note? ❍ I need to change my dollars into francs. ၅။ ~ (out of sth) (into sth) (အဝတ္အစား)လဲသည္။ go upstairs to change ❍ Do you want us to change (ie into more formal clothes) for dinner? ❍ Go and change out of those wet clothes into something dry. n ၁။ [U, C] ~ (in/to sth) တစ္မ်ဳိးတစ္ဖံုေျပာင္းလဲျခင္း။ အေျပာင္းအလဲ။ a change in the weather ❍ There has been a change in the programme. ❍ The government plans to make important changes to the tax system. ❍ Doctors say there is no change in the patient's condition. ❍ Are you for or against change? ၂။ [C] ~ (from sth) (to sth) (က) (usu sing ) အလုပ္အကိုင္၊ ေနရာဌာန စသည္ အေျပာင္းအလဲ။ a welcome change from town to country life. ❍ She badly needs a change. ❍ It certainly makes a change to read a bit of good news in the papers for onece. (ခ) (ကား၊ ရထား စသည္) ေျပာင္းစီးျခင္း။ We had to make a quick change at Crewe. ၃။ [C] ~ (of sth) (က) ေျပာင္းျခင္း။ အေျပာင္းအလဲ။ a change of job ❍ Please note my change of address. ❍ The party needs a change of leader. ❍ This is the third change of government the country has seen in two years. (ခ) အဝတ္လဲျခင္း။ Don't forget to take a change of (ie a second set of) clothes. ၄။ [U] (က) ျပန္းအမ္းေငြ။ Don't forget your change! ❍ I paid with a £10 note and got £2.50 change. (ခ) ေငြ အေႂကြ။ အႏုပ္။ I don't have any small change. ❍ Have you got any change for the ticket machine? (ဂ) အေႂကြ လဲျခင္း။ Can you give me/Have you got change for a five-pound note? ❏ changeable /'tʃeÇndʒǝbl/ adj ေျပာင္းလဲတတ္ေသာ။ မ တည္ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ a changeable person/mood ❍ changeable weather. ❏ change back (into sb/sth) [ PHRV ] မူလ ပံုသဏၭာန္၊ အက်င့္စ႐ိုက္သို႔ ျပန္ေျပာင္းသည္။ ဒံုရင္းျပန္သည္။ Do you wish you could change back to being a child again? ❏ change back (into sth) [ PHRV ] အဝတ္ေဟာင္းကို ျပန္ လဲဝတ္သည္။ Can I change back into my jeans now? ❏ change sth back (into sth) [ PHRV ] လဲၿပီးေငြကို မူလ ေငြသို႔ ျပန္လဲသည္။ change back francs into dollars. ❏ change down [ PHRV ] ( esp Brit ) အနိမ့္ဂီယာသို႔ ေျပာင္း သည္။ change down from fourth (gear) into/to third. ❏ a change for the better/worse [ IDM ] ပို၍ ေကာင္းလာ သည္၊ ဆိုးသြားသည္။ The situation is now so bad that any change is likely to be a change for the better. ❏ change hands [ IDM ] လက္ေျပာင္းသြားသည္။ The house has changed hands several times recently. ❏ change horses in midstream [ IDM ] ေဆာင္ရြက္ဆဲ မတ္တတ္ ဘက္ေျပာင္းသည္။ ❏ changeless adj အေျပာင္းအလဲမရိွေသာ။ ထာဝရတည္ရိွ ေသာ။ a changeless God. ❏ change one's/sb's mind [ IDM ] စိတ္ေျပာင္းသည္။ Nothing will make me change my mind. ❏ a change of air/climate [ IDM ] အေျခအေနသစ္။ ဝန္းက်င္ သစ္။ A change of air (eg A holiday away from home) will do you good. ❏ a change of heart [ IDM ] (အေကာင္းဘက္သို႔) စိတ္သေဘာ ထားေျပာင္းလဲမႈ။ ❏ the change of life [ IDM ] ( euph ) = menopause ❏ change over (from sth) (to sth) [ PHRV ] (စနစ္တစ္ခုမွ တစ္ခုသို႔) ေျပာင္းသည္။ The country has changed over from military to civilian rule. ❏ change-over n ဝါဒ (သို႔) အေျခအေနတစ္ခုမွ အျခားတစ္ခုသို႔ ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္း။ a peaceful change-over to civilian rule ❍ a change-over period. ❏ change one's spots [ IDM ] အက်င့္စ႐ိုက္၊ အေနအထိုင္ ေျပာင္းလဲသည္။ He's too old to change his spots now! ❏ change step [ IDM ] အျခားသူမ်ားႏွင့္ညီေအာင္ ေျခလွမ္းျပင္ လွမ္းသည္။ ❏ change the subject [ IDM ] စကားလမ္းေၾကာင္း ေျပာင္း သည္။ ❏ change one's tune [ IDM ] ( infml ) (အေျခအေနအရ) ေလသံေျပာင္းသြားသည္။ He said he'd never get married but when he met Kathy he soon changed his tune. ❏ change up [ PHRV ] ( esp Brit ) အေပၚဂီယာသို႔ေျပာင္း သည္။ ❏ change one's ways [ IDM ] အမူအက်င့္ ေျပာင္းလဲသြား သည္။ As a boy he was always in trouble with the police, but now he's completely changed his ways. ❏ for a change [ IDM ] အေျပာင္းအလဲအေနႏွင့္။ We usually go to France for our holidays, but this year we're going to Spain for a change. ❏ get no change out of sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္စံုတစ္ဦးထံ မွ အကူအညီ၊ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္ စသည္ ဘာမွ်မရ။ သူ႕ဆီ က ဘာမွ်ထြက္မလာဘူး။

Examples

1. Some things never change.
2. After a few days the weather changed dramatically.
3. The law was changed in 1989.
4. The changing role of women in the workplace
5. [change little] : The school has changed little since it was built 30 years ago.
6. [change (something) from something to something] : The town has changed from a small fishing port to a bustling tourist attraction.
7. [change from something to something] : The signal changed from green to red.
8. [change colour] : The leaves are already starting to change colour.
9. Dave said he might be changing jobs.
10. [change (something) to something] : I changed the order to once a year instead of quarterly.
11. Consumers are increasingly changing to low-fat milk.
12. I’m sick of these curtains – let’s change them.
13. Can you help me change a tyre?
14. I’m going to take that shirt back and change it: I don’t like the colour.
15. [change something for something] : Why don’t you change it for something else?
16. Have you changed your hairdresser?
17. [change something for/into something] : I need to change some dollars into pesos.
18. Can anyone change a ten pound note?
19. Hang on
20. I’ll just go and change.
21. I had a bath and changed my clothes.
22. [change into] : You should change into some dry socks.
23. [change out of] : He went straight upstairs to change out of his good suit.
24. [get changed] : Have I got time to get changed before we go?
25. You’ll have to change at Manchester.
26. We changed planes in Paris.