change over

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Verb	1.	change over - make a shift in or exchange of; "First Joe led; then we switched" shift, switch alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" back - shift to a counterclockwise direction; "the wind backed" veer - shift to a clockwise direction; "the wind veered"
	2.	change over - change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy; "We converted from 220 to 110 Volt" convert alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" transduce - cause transduction (of energy forms) metricate, metricise, metricize, metrify - convert from a non-metric to the metric system decimalise, decimalize - change to the decimal system; "The country decimalized the currency in 1975" float - convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation; "float data"

Translations

umstellen

w>change over

(= change to sth different) → sich umstellen (→ to auf +acc); we have just changed over from gas to electricity → hier or bei uns ist gerade von Gas auf Strom umgestellt worden

(= exchange places, activities etc) → wechseln; (Sport also) → die Seiten wechseln; do you mind if I change over? (TV) → hast du was dagegen, wenn ich umschalte?

vt sep → austauschen

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