interchangen.
/ˈɪntətʃeɪndʒ/ The act or fact of interchanging.
1.
a. The act of exchanging reciprocally; giving and receiving with reciprocity; reciprocal exchange (of commodities, courtesies, ideas, etc.) between two persons or parties.
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the world > time > change > exchange > [noun]
change?c1225
changingc1350
interchangingc1374
exchangec1384
permutationa1398
commutation1496
achange1530
chopping and changing1548
interchange1548
exchanging1553
promutation1560
intercourse1576
counterchange1579
chopping1581
counter-cambio?1592
interchangementa1616
commerce1631
swapping1695
barter1819
counterchanging1881
switching1904
va-et-vient1919
switch-around1981
1548 Duke of Somerset Epist. Inhabitauntes Scotl. B j b What can be more offered and more profered, then entercourse of merchaundises, enterchaunge of mariages.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 52 Ample enterchange of sweet discourse. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. i. 28 With enter-change of Gifts, Letters, louing Embassies. View more context for this quotation
1632 T. Heywood Iron Age iii. sig. G2 In hostile enter-change Of warlike blowes.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. viii. 463 With nimble interchange They pass'd it [the ball] to each other.
1804 Earl of Lauderdale Inq. Nature & Origin Public Wealth v. 353 Promoting an interchange of commodities betwixt two countries.
1885 Manch. Examiner 28 Feb. 6/1 There was a remarkable interchange of courtesies between the two Houses of Parliament to-night.
b. Cytology. Reciprocal exchange of chromosome segments, esp. between non-homologous chromosomes.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [noun] > changes or actions of genes or chromosomes
repulsion1908
polymery1914
hypostasis1917
inversion1921
polymerism1923
interchange1927
position change1937
heterochromatization1941
read-through1969
1927 Jrnl. Genetics 18 198 In other words, chromosomes I and IX seem to have undergone interchange of a terminal segment in the ancestry of the isomorphic B strain.
1963 K. R. Lewis & B. John Chromosome Marker i. iii. 66 Individuals which are heterozygous for an interchange are known as interchange heterozygotes.
1968 R. Rieger et al. Gloss. Genetics & Cytogenetics 440 An interchange of segments between homologous chromosomes is called ‘fraternal’, while one between nonhomologous chromosomes is called ‘external’.
2. The change of each of two (or more) things, conditions, etc. for the other, or of one thing, etc. for another; the taking by each of the place or nature of the other.
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the world > time > change > exchange > [noun] > mutual exchange
interchange1581
1581 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue xlix, in Poems (1870) 85 How faine my soule an interchaunge would make Twixt this her present State and Limbo Lake.
a1649 W. Drummond Irene in Wks. (1711) 169 What gain you by your Enterchange of War for Peace?
1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 318 The experiments..are all perfectly explained by Prevost's theory of reciprocal interchange.
1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams i. v. 91 Lower races still ascribe power of interchange to man and brute.
3. Alternate or varied succession in time, order, or space; alternation, vicissitude.
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the world > time > change > alternation > [noun]
interchangingc1374
alternationc1443
alternement1483
interchange1559
intercourse1571
reciprocation1586
circulation1597
counterchange1602
interchangeableness1606
subalternation1616
vicissitude1624
alternity1646
alternacy1650
alternative1732
variegation1781
fluctuation1802
alternance1826
up and down1855
intermittence1860
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Warwick ii My fame and shame her [Fortune's] shift full oft hath shaked, By enterchaunge alow and vp aloft.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 481 b As after light, followeth darkenesse, and after Calme come Clowdes: even so the whole course of this lyfe, hath his continuall enterchaunges.
1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo: Contemplatio Mortis (rev. ed.) 8 In the courses of my life I haue had interchanges; the world it selfe stands vpon vicissitudes.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 115 Sweet interchange Of Hill and Vallie, Rivers, Woods and Plaines, Now Land, now Sea. View more context for this quotation
1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North II. 266 How endless the interchange of woods and meadows.
1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. v. 87 Red anemones..with interchange of blue and lilac buds.
4. attributive in reference to the passage of traffic from one railway line to another, as interchange-service, interchange station, etc.
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society > travel > rail travel > [adjective] > change from one line to another
interchange1887
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Apr. 9/1 The fares and rates to be..charged in respect of through booking and interchange service.
1892 Daily News 7 June 6/1 Nearly 4,000 persons availed themselves of the interchange station with the Great Eastern Company's Chingford line at Hackney.
5. A road junction designed so that traffic streams do not intersect.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] > types of road junction
clover-leaf1933
interchange1944
T-junction1954
Y junction1961
spaghetti1963
box junction1964
box1966
spaghetti junction1971
ring junction1972
gyratory1983
1944 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Dec. 7–0 An accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near the New Stanton interchange.
1954 Hewes & Oglesby Highway Engin. viii. 207 An interchange not only offers grade separation between the two traffic arteries, but in addition provides easy routes for vehicles transferring from one through facility to the other.
1958 H. M. Sherrard Austral. Road Pract. xix. 365 Much ingenuity has been displayed in the design of such intersections or ‘traffic interchanges’.
1962 Amer. Speech 37 267 A multilevel freeway interchange.
1967 Gloss. Highway Engin. Terms (B.S.I.) Interchange, a general term for a grade-separated junction of roads which provides free flow between them.
1968 Listener 29 Aug. 267/3 It was an important junction and interchange.
1970 Daily Tel. 14 Nov. 1/7 The Berrygrove interchange of the A41 and the M1.
1973 D. Westheimer Going Public ix. 127 A four-mile long..traffic jam..backing up to the San Diego Freeway interchange.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
interchangev.
/ɪntəˈtʃeɪndʒ/ 1.
a. transitive. Of two persons or parties: To exchange (commodities, gifts, courtesies, words, etc.) with each other; to give and receive in reciprocity.
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society > trade and finance > barter > [verb (transitive)]
interchangec1374
changea1382
barterc1440
corsec1440
rore1440
truckc1440
coss14..
scorse1509
chafferc1535
to chop and change1549
chop1554
cope1570
excourse1593
swap1594
coupc1610
exchange1614
to trade off1676
rap1699
dicker1864
horse-trade1924
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1319 (1368) Sone affter this, spake they of sundry thinges..And pleying enterchaungeden hir ringes.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. sig. F.ii Wyshed I..yt we had more often enterchaunged wordes, & parted ye talking betwene vs.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. B2v The soueraignty of either being so great, That oft they interchange ech others seat. View more context for this quotation
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iv. 142 Then we interchanged presents.
1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 140 The texts of the Bible interchange light with one another.
1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 73 Amicable Talk, and moderate Cups Sweetly interchang'd.
1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. i. 22 There were repeated cheerings and salutations interchanged between the shore and the ship.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. ix. 543 They..interchanged opinions freely, and interchanged also good offices in perilous times.
1884 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 509 The great object now, is not to conquer, but to produce and interchange.
b. Of one person or party: To exchange (something) with another person.
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the world > time > change > exchange > exchange, change for [verb (transitive)] > interchange > with someone else
changea1470
interchange1566
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Eij I thoughte to interchaunge a worde.
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God iii. xvi. 128 Soone after, perished he himselfe, hauing..enterchanged a many wounds with his foe.
1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling i. v. §1 It do's in a sort communicate and enterchange properties with him.
1805 E. Berry Let. 10 Oct. in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1846) VII. 118 (note) I interchanged signals with His Majesty's Ship, L'Aimable.
1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. ii. 49 The Romans interchanged embassies with its sovereign in the reign of..Justin the younger.
2. To put each of (two things) in the place of the other; to transpose or make an exchange between; †also, to exchange (one thing) for another; †to change (clothes).
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the world > time > change > exchange > exchange, change for [verb (transitive)]
changec1225
truck?c1225
interchangec1374
permutec1400
wrixlec1400
turnc1449
wissel1487
chaffer1530
niffer1540
bandy1589
to chaffer words1590
swap1590
barter1596
counterchange1598
commute1633
trade1636
countercambiate1656
ring1786
rebarter1845
trade1864
swop1890
permutate1898
interconvert1953
the world > time > change > exchange > exchange, change for [verb (transitive)] > interchange
changec1300
interchangec1374
exchange1604
reciprocate1611
alternatea1711
counterchange1728
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iii. pr. ii. 51 And ther ben folk þat entrechaungen the causes and the endes of thyse forseyde goodes As they þat desyren rychesses to han power and delytes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. viii. 3 Once more I shall enterchange My wained state, for Henries Regall Crowne. View more context for this quotation
1676 W. Temple Let. to Sir J. Williamson 3 Apr. Greffier Fagel came to me from the States, to desire me, That I would interchange the Swedish Passports and theirs, which were both in my Hands.
1855 E. B. Pusey Doctr. Real Presence Note G. 87 Our Saviour interchanged the names: and to the Body gave the name of the symbol, and to the symbol that of the Body.
1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. II. xvi. 76 L and r were constantly interchanged in the languages of the middle ages.
1875 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Harmony (ed. 2) iii. 52 It is allowable occasionally to interchange dissonant notes in a fundamental discord.
3.
a. To cause (things) to follow each other alternately or in succession; to alternate.
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the world > time > change > alternation > alternate [verb (transitive)]
altern1447
entermetea1500
interchange1561
interpose1602
alternate1605
interplace1650
interleave1802
interleaf1900
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. f. 146 As if they should quarell with God..for that his wil was to haue enterchanged courses betwene winter and sommer, betwene day and nighte.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xv. liv. 277 Not as elsewhere now sunshine bright, now showres, Now heat, now cold, there enterchanged weare.
1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. i. 9 Some sad and sombre moments should be interchanged with hours of merriment.
b. intransitive. To alternate with; †to change or become by turns.
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the world > time > change > alternation > alternate [verb (intransitive)]
to change (by) stevens1398
interchange1483
alternate1700
alternize1804
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > change gradually [verb (intransitive)]
waxc1175
interchange1626
graduate1786
1483 Cath. Angl. 116/1 To Entyrchaunge, alternor.
a1586 [implied in: Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. vi. sig. S1 With some enterchanging changes of fortune, they begat of a iust war, the best child, peace. (at interchanging adj.)].
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §697 Those [Insecta] that Enterchange from Wormes to Flyes in the Summer, and from Flies to Wormes in the Winter.
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 611 Quartan ague..occasionally interchanges with dysentery.
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