单词 | exchangeable |
释义 | exchangeableadj. 1. That may be exchanged. Const. for. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > [adjective] > interchangeable convertiblec1386 interchangeablea1569 commutable1649 exchangeable1651 counterchangeable1672 permutable1776 transpositionala1800 interconvertible1827 transposable1835 substitutable1925 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxiv. 127 A mans Labour also, is a commodity exchangeable for benefit. 1778 G. Washington Let. 8 Mar. in Wks. (1834) V. 255 On condition of General Lee being declared exchangeable. 1840 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 7 638 The notes..are..not easily exchangeable. 1869 J. Tyndall Notes 9 Lect. on Light 14 In optics, the position of an object and of its image are always exchangeable. 2. exchangeable value n. value estimated by that of the goods for which a thing may be exchanged. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > value judged by price of other equivalent goods exchangeable value1776 exchange-value1869 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. iv. 34 The principles which regulate the exchangeable value of commodities. View more context for this quotation 1821 Torrens Ess. Product. Wealth 10 Nothing but a vague and inaccurate use of language could have led to the notion that exchangeable value constitutes wealth. 1834 H. Martineau Moral Many Fables iii. 86 It is labour which confers exchangeable value. 1862 J. Ruskin Unto this Last 114 How good must meat be, in order to possess any exchangeable value? ΚΠ 1577 T. Rogers tr. S. à Geveren Of Ende of World 34 a This Arithmetical proportion Aristotle ascribeth the exchaungeable iustice. Derivatives exˈchangeably adv. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > [adverb] therewithc1000 in changea1387 changeably1425 interchangeably1587 exchangeably1598 in kind1638 convertibly1710 interconvertibly1811 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Scambiéuole, by exchange, mutuall, exchangeablie. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1577 |
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