THESAURUS
modification
about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, allophone, allowance, alteration, alveolar, amelioration, analysis, anatomization, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, apostasy, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, atomization, betterment, bilabial, break, cacuminal, cerebral, cession, change, change of heart, changeableness, check, circumscription, concession, consonant, constructive change, continuant, continuity, conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, demarcation, dental, desynonymization, deterioration, deviation, difference, differencing, differentiation, diphthong, discontinuity, discrimination, disequalization, disjunction, dissimilation, distinction, distinguishment, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, division, epenthetic vowel, exception, exemption, explosive, extenuating circumstances, fitting, flip-flop, glide, glottal, glottalization, gradual change, grain of salt, grant, guttural, hedge, hedging, improvement, individualization, individuation, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, limitation, lingual, liquid, manner of articulation, melioration, mental reservation, metamorphosis, mitigation, modulation, monophthong, morphophoneme, mutation, mute, nasal, occlusive, overthrow, palatal, parasitic vowel, particularization, peak, personalization, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, phoneme, plosive, prothetic vowel, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reservation, reshaping, restriction, restructuring, retroflex, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, salvo, segmental phoneme, segregation, semivowel, separation, severalization, severance, shift, sonant, sonority, special case, special treatment, specialization, specialness, specification, speech sound, stop, sudden change, surd, switch, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, tempering, total change, transformation, transition, transition sound, transmogrification, triphthong, turn, turnabout, upheaval, variation, variety, velar, violent change, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, waiver, worsening
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modification
Difference
N
difference, variance, variation, variety, diversity, dissimilarity, disagreement, disparity, distinction, contradistinction, alteration,
modification, permutation, moods and tenses, nice distinction, fine distinction, delicate distinction, subtle distinction, shade of difference, nuance, discrimination, differentia, different thing, something else, apple off another tree, another pair of shoes, horse of a different color, this that or the other, differing, different, diverse, heterogeneous, multifarious, polyglot, distinguishable, dissimilar, varied, modified, diversified, various, divers, all manner of, all kinds of, variform, daedal, other, another, not the same, unequal, unmatched, widely apart, poles apart, distinctive, characteristic, discriminative, distinguishing, incommensurable, incommensurate, differently, il y a fagots et fagots.
Variation
N
variation, alteration,
modification, moods and tenses, discrepance, discrepancy, divergency, deviation, aberration, innovation, varied, modified, diversified.
Copy
N
copy, facsimile, counterpart, effigies, effigy, form, likeness, image, picture, photo, xerox, similitude, semblance, ectype, photo offset, electrotype, imitation, model, representation, adumbration, study, portrait, resemblance, duplicate, reproduction, cast, tracing, reflex, reflexion, reflection, shadow, echo, transcript, transcription, recording, scan, chip off the old block, reprint, new printing, rechauffe, apograph, fair copy, parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, travestie, paraphrase, derivative, derivation,
modification, expansion, extension, revision, second edition, servile copy, servile imitation, plagiarism, counterfeit, fake, pasticcio, faithful, lifelike, close, conscientious, unoriginal, imitative, derivative.
Change
N
change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation,
modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution, diversion, break, transformation, transfiguration, metamorphosis, transmutation, deoxidization, transubstantiation, mutagenesis transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis, avatar, alterative, conversion, revolution &c (sudden or radical change), inversion, displacement, transference, changeableness, tergiversation, changed, newfangled, changeable, transitional, modifiable, alterative, mutatis mutandis, Int, quantum mutatus!, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream, nous avons change tout cela, tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis, non sum qualis eram, casaque tourner, corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur, in statu quo ante bellum, still ending and beginning still, vox audita perit littera scripta manet.
Qualification
N
qualification, limitation,
modification, coloring, allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating circumstances, mitigation, condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision, specification, sine qua non, catch, string, strings attached, exemption, exception, escape clause, salvo, saving clause, discount, restriction, fine print, qualifying, qualified, conditioned, restricted, hedged, conditional, exceptional, hypothetical, contingent, provided, provided that, provided always, if, unless, but, yet, according as, conditionally, admitting, supposing, on the supposition of, with the understanding, even, although, though, for all that, after all, at all events, approximately, in a limited degree (smallness), somewhat, sort of, something like that, to a certain extent, to a degree, in a sense, so to speak, with grains of allowance, cum grano salis, with a grain of salt, exceptis excipiendis, wind and weather permitting, if possible, subject to, conditioned upon, with this proviso, if the good lord is willing and the creeks don't r, catch-, Degrees of Evidence.