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单词 to change over
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to change over
to change over
1.
a. transitive. To cause (something) to adopt (a way of operating, a system, etc.) in place of another.
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1883 Elkhart (Indiana) Weekly Rev. 1 Nov. (advt.) Having purchased..the Elkhart City Mills they will hereafter be known as the Elkhart Roller Mills being changed over to the Roller System.
1924 N.Y. Times 5 Feb. 34/2 The existing signaling will be changed over to alternating current track circuits and position light signals.
2003 Stationary Engine Mag. Nov. 29/2 There are however, a couple of failures, the 10hp and 15hp semi-diesel engines built in the 1940s for example. These engines were started on petrol and when hot, changed over to diesel injection.
b. intransitive. To move from one thing, esp. a system or situation, to another.
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1889 R. Wallace Allotments & Small Farms 9 In changing over to the small farm system, this original capital would in a great measure be lost.
1898 Daily News 12 July 2/7 In changing over to the new central incline shaft from the old shaft.
1974 Sci. Amer. Apr. 55/1 Most soda pulp mills changed over to the kraft process (which is also often called the sulfate process).
2000 N.Y. Mag. 3 Apr. 22/3 As the ‘voice data’ business changes over from atoms to bits.
2.
a. transitive. To swap or exchange (something) for something else; to switch from (one thing) to another.
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1888 Northwestern Miller 12 Oct. 486/1 A cheaper and better plan than has heretofore been devised for changing over hexagon reels is demanded by millers.
1901 Transit Jrnl. 24 Oct. 765/1 The Manhattan company had at that time..completed its arrangements for changing over the elevated system from steam to electricity.
1973 Hi-Fi Answers Dec. 59/2 This saves the operator the inconvenience of changing over the spools to play the second side of a stereo four track tape.
2011 East Anglian Daily Times (Nexis) 15 Dec. A local..aerial installer..said I know just what type of aerial you need, and changed mine over.
b. intransitive. To swap roles or duties with another person or other people.
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1910 Western Chemist & Metallurgist 6 262 Under such arrangements as these on the days when the night shift changed over to the day some of the men would have to work eighteen hours.
1958 Atomic Energy: Accident at Windscale in Parl. Papers 1957–8 (Cmnd. 302) XXIV. 1185 Some delay was therefore necessary while the shift changed over at 08.00.
1994 R. Tyler & G. Parry in M. Talbot-Smith Audio Engineer's Ref. Bk. i. 55/2 It may therefore be possible to alternate two employees between tasks in noisy and quiet areas, perhaps changing over at lunchtime.
2010 D. Daniel Rough as Guts 199 Nothing happened for the next few hours, except when the teams changed over at midnight.
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