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1. To tack. 2. To change tack. 3. To maneuver the bow of a sailing vessel across the wind so that the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other. 4. To position a vessel with respect to the wind after tacking. 5. To change one's attitude. To begin to see things in a different way.
Sharing of beds with your "oppo" due to a lack of living space aboard a ship. When one person is on watch, the other is in the rack. When the watch changes, they switch.
  From Wikipedia: “A specialized diffractive colorant for automotive and industrial coatings that show multiple rainbow colors as the viewing angle changes. This pigment is based on microscopic aluminum flakes layered with glass and inorganic pigments. The combination of SpectraFlair’s rainbow-like color, aluminum core, and fine particle size creates an iridescent, liquid silver metallic appearance.â€Â Spectaflair is often used by indie makers or frankeners to create linear or scattered holographic polishes.
Female genitals or, more especially, female pubic hair, esp when related to performing oral sex on a female, e.g. "chinning the muff". (ed: the following entered verbatim) Sometime during the mid to late 1960's, in Pasadena, California USA, there was an auto muffler shop called "American Muffler". On their sign, and on gimme hats and T-shirts they sold, it said, "American Muffler - the friendly muffler shop - "No Muff Too Tough... We Dive 'Till 5". By 1970 the shop changed hands, and the motto was painted out, never to be seen again. There was, at the time, a very tall, buff butch Lesbian working there. However, she didn't do mufflers, only tune-ups and oil changes. She was very good with the sucky Lucas electricals of the egregious English cars that infested California at the time, especially MG's and Jag's. I can't tell her name but she is still about.
A type of nail polish that changes color when warm or cold.
Chord progression.Hey, Pops, dig those "changes" that the Hawk is playin'.
To indulge in behaviours whilst young that are frowned on when adult, such as fequent changes in sexual partners. Hence the expression "To sow ones wild oats all Saturday night and spend all day Sunday praying for crop failure!"
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An instrument for detecting or measuring minute extension or movements of solid bodies. It consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button of carbon, forming part of an electrical circuit, the resistance of which, being varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured, causes variations in the strength of the current, which variations are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer. It is also used for measuring minute changes of temperature.
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A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution; as, the round of the seasons; a round of pleasures.
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Full of, or subject to, changes.
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Uncommon; unusual; infrequent; rare; as, unwonted changes.
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A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word.
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To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.
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Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.
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An instrument consisting essentially of a glass tube provided with a graduated scale, for exhibiting to the eye the changes of volume of a gas or gaseous mixture resulting from chemical action, and the like.
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An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature in bodies are accompained by proportional changes in their volumes or dimensions.
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One of the changes of assimilation, in which proteid matter which has been transformed, and made a part of the tissue or tissue cells, is endowed with life, and thus enabled to manifest the phenomena of irritability, contractility, etc.
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A mother substance, or antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical ferment; -- applied to such substances as, not being themselves actual ferments, may by internal changes give rise to a ferment.
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An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.
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To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan.
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One who whiffles, or frequently changes his opinion or course; one who uses shifts and evasions in argument; hence, a trifler.
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An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons.
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Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes.
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To sing with sudden changes from chest to head tones; to yodel.
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The power possessed by living organisms, both animal and vegetable, of adapting themselves to modifications or changes in their environment, thus possibly giving rise to ultimate variation of structure or function.
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Of or pertaining to teratology; as, teratological changes.
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A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.
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