CHANGING AND TECHNOLOGY

Adapt

To change your ideas or behaviour so that you can deal with a new situation.

Adjust

To change something slightly in order to make it better, more accurate or more effective.

Alternate

To happen or exist one after the other repeatedly.

Alternative

Something that you can choose instead of something else; Different from something else and able to used instead of it.

Amend

To make changes to a document, law, agreement, etc, especially in order to improve it.

Conservative

Not willing to accept much change, especially in the traditional values of society.

Convert

To change from one system, use or method to another, or to make something to do this; To change your beliefs, especially your religious beliefs, or to persuade someone to do this; Someone who has changed their beliefs in an important way.

Decay

To be gradually destroyed as a result of a natural process of change; The gradual destruction of something as a result of a natural process of change.

Deteriorate

To become worse.

Distort

To change something such as information so that it is no longer true or accurate.

Dynamic

Continuously changing, growing or developing.

Endure

To suffer something unpleasant or difficult in a patient way over a long period; To last for a long time.

Evolve

To gradually change and develop over a period of time.

Influence

To affect the way someone thinks or behaves or affect the way something happens; The effect that a person or thing has on someone's decisions, opinions or behaviour or on the way something happens.

Innovation

A new idea, method, piece of equipment, etc.

Innovative

New, original and advanced.

Last

To continue existing or happening for or until a particular time.

Maintain

To make something stay the same.

Mature

To start behaving like an adult and become more sensible as you get older; Behaving in the sensible way that you would expect an adult to behave.

Modify

To change something slightly, especially in order to improve it or to make it less extreme.

Novel

New or unusual.

Persist

To continue to do or say something in a determined way.

Potential

The possibility to develop or achieve something in the future; Possible or likely in the future.

Progress

To continue to develop or move forward; The process of developing or improving.

Radical

Causing or being an example of great change.

Refine

To make some changes to something in order to improve it.

Reform

To improve a situation by correcting things that are wrong or unfair, or make a system work more effectively; A change intended to correct a situation that is wrong or unfair or make a system work more effectively.

Remain

To continue to be in a particular situation or condition.

Revise

To change your opinion or judgement of someone or something; To change, improve, or make additions to something such as a book, law or piece of writing.

Revolution

A sudden or a major change, especially in ideas or methods; A situation in which people completely change their government or political system, usually by force.

Shift

(of an idea, opinion, etc.) to change.

Spoil

To affect in something in a way that make it worse, less attractive or less enjoyable.

Status quo

The present situation or the way things usually are.

Steady

To hold something firmly without shaking or moving it; Firmly held in a particular position without moving or shaking; Staying at the same level, speed, value, etc.

Substitute

To remove one thing and put something else in its place; Something that is used instead of something else.

Sustain

To provide the conditions in which something can happen or exist.

Switch

To replace one object with another; A change form one thing to another; Something such a button or key that controls the electrical supply to a light, piece of equipment, machine, etc.

Transform

To make someone or something completely different, usually in a way that makes them more attractive, easier to use, etc.

Trend

A gradual change or development that produces a particular result.

Uniform

The same everywhere.

Breakthrough

A discovery or achievement that comes after a lot of hard work.

Broadband

Able to send different types of communication signals at the same time; A high-speed Internet connection.

Click

To make a computer do something by pressing a button on the mouse.

Complex

With a lot of details or small parts, which makes something difficult to understand or deal with.

Consumer electronics

Electrical equipment, such as digital cameras, etc, which is available for the public to buy.

Craft

To make or produce something skilfully; A traditional skill of making things by hand.

Data

Information in a form that a computer can use.

Download

To move information to your computer from a computer system or the Internet; A downloaded computer file.

File

A set of information on a computer.

Console

A small piece of electronic equipment that you connect to a screen, used for playing videogames.

Manual

Operated by people rather than automatically or using computers; A book containing instructions for doing something, especially for operating a machine.

Network

To connect computers together so that each computer can send and recieve information to and from the other computers; A set of computers that are connected to each other so that each computer can send and recieve information to and from the other computers.

Nuclear

Relating to energy produced by changing the structure of the central part of the atom.

Primitive

At a very simple stage of development, before modern technology.

Programmer

Someone whose job is to create computer programs.

Resource

Something you can use to help you to achieve something, especially in your work or study.

Technique

A method of doing something using a special skill that you have developed.

Upload

To send documents or programs from your computer to a larger system using the Internet.

Back up

Make a copy of information on your computer; Give support to someone by telling other people that you agree with them.

Change around

Move things so that they are in different places or positions.

Change into

Stop being in one state, condition or form and start being in another, or make something do this.

Change out of

Take off the clothes or a piece of clothing you are wearing and put on different ones.

Do away with

Get rid of

Do up

Repair, paint and improve an old building, car, boat, etc; Fasten (an item of clothing)

Fade away

Disappear slowly.

Key in

Put information into a computer or other electronic machine using keys or a keyboard.

Make into

Change someone or something so that they become something else.

Mix up

Put things together without any order; Think that one person or thing is another person or thing.

Switch on/off

Start/stop a machine/light/etc working.

Take apart

Separate and object into pieces.

Test out

Try using something such as a machine or product to find out whether it works correctly or is satisfactory.

Turn into

Change or develop into something different; Make someone or something change or develop into something different.

Use up

Use all of a supply of something.

Wear out

Use something a lot so that it no longer works, or can no longer be used.

A leopard can't change its spots

Used for saying that someone will never change their behaviour or character.

All mod cons

All modern conveniences. The machines and pieces of equipment in your house that make life easy and comfortable.

Break the mould

Change a situation by doing something that is very different from what most people usually do or have done in the past.

Change your tune

Change your opinion or attitude.

Have a change of heart

Change your opinion about something or decide not to do something you were planning to do.

Know something inside out

Be very familiar with.

Reinvent the wheel

Waste time and effort trying to do something that someone else has already done well.

Stick to your guns

Refuse to change what you are saying or doing despite the opposition or criticism of other people.

The tools of the trade

The skills and equipment that you need in order to do your job.

Turn over a new leaf

Change your life by starting to be a better person or stopping a bad habit.