Synonyms of the word

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

action

• n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
• n. A way of motion or functioning.
• n. A fast-paced activity.
• n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
• n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
• n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
• n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
• n. (military) Combat.
• n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
• n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
• n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
• n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
• n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
• n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
• interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
• v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

alteration

• n. The act of altering or making different.
• n. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.

cash

• n. Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
• n. (informal) Money.
• n. (Canada) Cash register.
• n. (archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
• v. (transitive) To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
• v. (poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
• n. Any of several low-denomination coins of India or China, especially the Chinese copper coin.
• v. To disband.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

clothing

• v. present participle of clothe.
• n. Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination…
• n. An act or instance of putting clothes on.
• n. (obsolete) The art of process of making cloth.
• n. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation…

coin

• n. (money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or…
• n. A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).
• n. (figuratively) That which serves for payment or recompense.
• n. (uncountable, slang, US, African American Vernacular) money in general, not limited to coins.
• n. One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
• n. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge.
• n. A small circular slice of food.
• v. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture.
• v. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate.
• v. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

commute

• v. (intransitive) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
• v. (intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing…
• v. To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment…
• n. A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
• n. The route, time or distance of that journey.

consequence

• n. That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause.
• n. A result of actions, especially if such a result is unwanted or unpleasant.
• n. A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results…
• n. Chain of causes and effects; consecution.
• n. Importance with respect to what comes after.
• n. The power to influence or produce an effect.
• n. (especially when preceded by "of") Importance, value, or influence.
• v. (transitive) To threaten or punish (a child, etc.) with specific consequences for misbehaviour.

convert

• n. A person who has converted to a religion.
• n. A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
• v. (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
• v. (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
• v. (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense…
• v. (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
• v. (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
• v. (transitive) To express (a unit of measure) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by…
• v. (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
• v. (soccer) To score (a penalty).
• v. (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
• v. (intransitive) To become converted.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
• v. (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs…

deepen

• v. To make deep or deeper.
• v. To make darker or more intense; to darken.
• v. To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree.
• v. To make lower in tone.
• v. To make more thorough or extensive.
• v. To make more intimate.
• v. To make more sound or heavy.
• v. (intransitive) To become deeper.
• v. (intransitive) To become darker or more intense.
• v. (intransitive) To become lower in tone.
• v. (intransitive) To become more thorough or extensive.
• v. (intransitive) To become more intimate.
• v. (intransitive) To become more sound or heavy.

difference

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being different.
• n. (countable) A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
• n. (countable) A disagreement or argument.
• n. (countable, uncountable) Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
• n. (countable) The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
• n. (obsolete) Choice; preference.
• n. (heraldry) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be…
• n. (logic) The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
• v. (transitive) To distinguish or differentiate.

dress

• n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
• n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
• n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
• n. A dress rehearsal.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
• v. To adorn, ornament.
• v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
• v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
• v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
• v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
• v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
• v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
• v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
• v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
• v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
• v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.

effect

• n. The result or outcome of a cause. See usage notes below.
• n. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
• n. Execution; performance; realization; operation.
• n. (cinematography) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect").
• n. (sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced…
• n. (physics, psychology, etc.) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
• n. (usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
• n. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
• n. (obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
• n. (obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.
• v. To make or bring about; to implement.
• v. Misspelling of affect.

event

• n. An occurrence; something that happens.
• n. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
• n. (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
• n. (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating…
• n. (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
• n. (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
• n. (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.
• v. (obsolete) To occur, take place.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.

exchange

• n. An act of exchanging or trading.
• n. A place for conducting trading.
• n. A telephone exchange.
• n. (telephony, US only?) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before…
• n. A conversation.
• n. (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
• n. (obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
• n. (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through…
• v. (transitive) To trade or barter.
• v. (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

habiliment

• n. Clothes, especially clothing appropriate for someone's job, status, or to an occasion.
• n. Equipment or furnishings characteristic of a place or being; trappings.

happening

• v. present participle of happen.
• adj. (slang, of a place) Busy, lively; vibrant, dynamic; fashionable.
• adj. (slang, of a person or product) Trendy, up-to-the-minute.
• n. Something that happens.
• n. A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation.

interchange

• n. An act of interchanging.
• n. A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
• n. (rail transport) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at…
• v. (transitive) to switch (each of two things).
• v. (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange.
• v. (intransitive) to swap or change places.
• v. (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary.

issue

• n. The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow, particularly.
• n. Someone or something that flows out or comes out, particularly.
• n. The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly.
• n. The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet, particularly.
• n. The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly.
• n. Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly.
• n. The action or an instance of concluding something, particularly.
• n. The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly.
• n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
• n. (figuratively, now rare) The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
• n. (figuratively, originally WWI military slang, usually with definite article) All of something.
• v. To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
• v. To rush out, to sally forth.
• v. To extend into, to open onto.
• v. To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
• v. (law) To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
• v. To send out; to put into circulation.
• v. To deliver for use.
• v. To deliver by authority.

locomote

• v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).

modification

• n. the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified.
• n. an alteration or adjustment to something.
• n. a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
• n. (linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language.
• n. (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in…

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

occurrence

• n. Actual instance when a situation arises.

occurrent

• adj. Current, actual, occurring.
• n. (now chiefly philosophy) An event, something that occurs.

outcome

• n. That which is produced or occurs as a result of an event or process.
• n. (probability theory) The result of a random trial. An element of a sample space.
• n. (education) The results or evidence of students' learning experience. Often used in place of desired outcomes.
• n. (chiefly sports) The scoreline; the result.

relation

• n. The manner in which two things may be associated.
• n. A member of one's family.
• n. The act of relating a story.
• n. (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
• n. (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.
• n. (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
• n. (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
• n. (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
• n. (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.

replace

• v. (transitive) To restore to a former place, position, condition, etc.; to put back.
• v. (transitive) To refund; to repay; to restore.
• v. (transitive) To supply or substitute an equivalent for.
• v. (transitive) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfill the end or office of.
• v. (transitive) To demolish a building and build an updated form of that building in its place.
• v. (transitive, rare) To place again.
• v. (transitive, rare) To put in a new or different place.

result

• v. To proceed, spring up or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances,…
• v. To come out, or have an issue; to terminate; to have consequences; followed by in.
• v. (law) To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion.
• v. (obsolete) To leap back; to rebound.
• n. That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is…
• n. The fruit, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.
• n. The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
• n. (obsolete) A flying back; resilience.
• n. (sports) The final score in a game.
• n. (by extension) A positive or favourable outcome for someone.
• interj. (Britain) An exclamation of joy following a favorable outcome.

shift

• n. (historical) A type of women's undergarment, a slip.
• n. A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
• n. An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
• n. (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
• n. Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
• n. (computing) A bit shift.
• n. (baseball) The infield shift.
• n. (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of sexual petting.
• n. (archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail.
• n. (archaic) A trick, an artifice.
• n. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed…
• n. (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
• v. (transitive) To change, swap.
• v. (transitive) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
• v. (intransitive) To change position.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
• v. (intransitive) To change gears (in a car).
• v. (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
• v. (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
• v. (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare…
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove the first value from an array.
• v. (transitive) To dispose of.
• v. (intransitive) To hurry.
• v. (Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
• v. (obsolete) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
• v. To practice indirect or evasive methods.

switch

• n. A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
• n. A change.
• n. (rail transport, US) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one…
• n. A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in…
• n. (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
• n. (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of…
• n. (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously,…
• n. (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows…
• n. (BDSM) One who is willing to take either a sadistic or a masochistic role.
• n. A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly…
• v. (transitive) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
• v. (transitive) To whip or hit with a switch.
• v. (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
• v. To swing or whisk.
• v. To be swung or whisked.
• v. To trim.
• v. To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
• v. (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
• adj. (snowboarding) riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.

thing

• n. That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
• n. A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
• n. An individual object or distinct entity.
• n. (informal) Something that is normal or generally recognised.
• n. (law).
• n. (somewhat dated) The latest fad or fashion.
• n. (in the plural) Clothes, possessions or equipment.
• n. (informal) A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
• n. (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
• n. (slang) A penis.
• n. A living being or creature.
• n. That which matters; the crux.
• n. Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
• n. (informal) That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.).
• n. (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
• v. (rare) To express as a thing; to reify.

transfer

• v. (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
• v. (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
• v. (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
• n. (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
• n. (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
• n. (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
• n. A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
• n. (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side…
• n. (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.

travel

• v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
• v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
• v. (transitive) To force to journey.
• v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
• n. The act of traveling.
• n. pl A series of journeys.
• n. pl An account of one's travels.
• n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
• n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
• n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

upshot

• n. (US) A concise summary.
• n. The final result, or outcome of something.

variety

• n. The quality of being varied; diversity.
• n. A specific variation of something.
• n. A number of different things.
• n. A state of constant change.
• n. (taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification, below species and subspecies.
• n. (cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system.
• n. (cybernetics) Logarithm of the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
• n. (linguistics) A term used for a specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is a dialect,…
• n. (algebra, esp. universal algebra) The class of all algebraic structures of a given signature satisfying…
• n. The kind of theatrical entertainment given in variety shows.
• n. The production of, or performance in, variety shows.

vary

• v. (transitive) To change with time or a similar parameter.
• v. (transitive) To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify.
• v. (intransitive) Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.
• v. (of the members of a group, intransitive) To display differences.
• v. (intransitive) To be or act different from the usual.
• v. (transitive) To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.
• v. (transitive, music) To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key,…
• v. (obsolete) To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension.
• n. (obsolete) alteration; change.

vesture

• n. A covering of or like clothing.
• v. (archaic) To clothe.

wear

• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off;…
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or…
• v. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
• v. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or…
• v. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
• v. (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
• v. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce…
• v. (intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due…
• v. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
• v. (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue,…
• v. (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
• v. (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed…
• n. (uncountable) (in combination) clothing.
• n. (uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
• n. (uncountable) fashion.

wearable

• adj. Able to be worn.
• n. Something that can be worn; an item of clothing.
• n. (computing) Clipping of wearable computer (“small computer which can be worn on the body”).