Interchange
[ɪntə'tʃeɪn(d)ʒ] or ['ɪntɚtʃendʒ]
Definition
(noun.) mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information).
(noun.) a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams.
(verb.) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action).
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Definition
(v. t.) To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly offices and services.
(v. t.) To cause to follow alternately; to intermingle; to vary; as, to interchange cares with pleasures.
(v. i.) To make an interchange; to alternate.
(n.) The act of mutually changing; the act of mutually giving and receiving; exchange; as, the interchange of civilities between two persons.
(n.) The mutual exchange of commodities between two persons or countries; barter; commerce.
(n.) Alternate succession; alternation; a mingling.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Exchange, bandy, change reciprocally, give and take mutually.
n. [1]. Exchange, reciprocity, reciprocation.[2]. Alternation, alternate succession.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Barter, reciprocation, reciprocity, intercommunication, correspondence,intercourse, mutuality
ANT:[See INTERCEPT]
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Definition
v.t. to give and take mutually: to exchange.—v.i. to succeed alternately.—n. mutual exchange: alternate succession.—adj. Interchange′able that may be interchanged: following each other in alternate succession.—ns. Interchange′ableness Interchangeabil′ity.—adv. Interchange′ably.—ns. Interchange′ment (Shak.) exchange mutual transfer; Interchang′er.
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Examples
- Two persons standing there might interchange a dialogue, and, so it were neither long nor loud, none be the wiser. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. Krook and he interchange a word or two. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And the experience of each party loses in meaning, when the free interchange of varying modes of life-experience is arrested. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The very first interchange of slight observations sufficed to give each an idea of what the other was. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Bankers, merchants, and manufacturers, whose trade depended on exports and interchange of wealth, became bankrupt. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Possibly, if he had observed the brief interchange of signals, he might have thought that it boded no good to him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The very first words I heard them interchange as I became conscious, were the words of my own thought, Two One Pound notes. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He has become the type and symbol for all such interchanges. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No; for such a tone--call it familiarity, levity, equality, or what you will--would imply those social interchanges which do not exist. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- How delightful those interchanges, and the looks accompanying them! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Ada and I interchanged looks, and as we were going out in any case, accepted the offer. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I derived that, from the look they interchanged. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We had many pitched battles, during which no word was spoken, hardly a look was interchanged, but in which each resolved not to submit to the other. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Some words were interchanged about the chill of the air. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- So they soon forgot their pride and interchanged kindnesses without stopping to think which was the greater. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The line was made to work, however, and additional to the messages that the boys interchanged, Edison secured practice in an ingenious manner. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This is done by building the table without the regular rails, and by having a separate set of rails for each game, which are held in position by clamps and quickly interchanged. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They parted without more conversation, merely interchanging a 'good-night. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Without interchanging a word they went slowly out of the room together, Uriah looking after them. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- While this discourse was interchanging, both Bella and the Secretary observed Lizzie Hexam with great attention. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Both the wanderers looked up towards the window; but, after interchanging a mutter or two, soon applied themselves to the door-posts below. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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