Maana ya kamusi ya neno "mabadiliko" ni badiliko au urekebishaji unaofanywa kwa kitu fulani, mara nyingi ili kukiboresha au kukirekebisha kwa hali tofauti. Inaweza pia kurejelea kitendo cha kufanya mabadiliko au urekebishaji kama huo. Neno hilo linaweza kutumika katika miktadha mbalimbali, kama vile mabadiliko ya mavazi au mabadiliko ya mpango au pendekezo.
1. The morgue was much smaller than it should have been owing to austerity cuts that forced a late alteration to the new Elland Road Police Station HQ.
2. I found this machine, however, to require considerable alteration before it could be adapted to the purposes to which I intended making it applicable.
3. A singular alteration took place in regard to the direction of the balloon, and although fully anticipated, afforded me the most unequivocal delight.
4. It is true that certain strokes of good fortune, that have given me more than I could have hoped for, have made some alteration in me but I have not therefore ceased to be what I was before, or to entertain the same desire I have had all through of availing myself of the might of your valiant and invincible arm.
5. This would not do she immediately stopped, under pretence of having some alteration to make in the lacing of her half-boot, and stooping down in complete occupation of the footpath, begged them to have the goodness to walk on, and she would follow in half a minute.
6. The spot, as he described it, was about the compass of a silver threepence, but in the course of time grew larger, and changed its color for at twelve years old it became green, so continued till five-and-twenty, then turned to a deep blue at five-and-forty it grew coal-black, and as large as an English shilling, but never admitted any farther alteration.
7. Most had eventually recovered their senses after the initial alteration.
8. With a bit of alteration to their attire and a cloak for Darius, they ran across the courtyard.
9. Had the unhappy man on whom she lavished her assiduities been previously acquainted with her, so sudden an alteration might well have excited suspicion in his mind, or at least have greatly astonished him.
10. The dominions of kings are limited either by mountains or rivers, or a change of manners, or an alteration of language.