| 单词 | interchange |
| 释义 | interchange (once / 1225 pages) vn To interchange two things is to trade or switch them. If the painting hanging on your wall just doesn't fit the room, you can interchange it with the photograph on the opposite wall. When you're baking a pie, you can usually interchange one kind of fruit for another, or interchange tapioca for cornstarch to thicken the filling. When interchange is a noun, it has various meanings including "highway intersection," or the place where these busy roads meet each other. This road meaning dates only from the 1940s, while the "change places" meaning is at least 400 years old. WORD FAMILYinterchange: interchangeable, interchanged, interchanges, interchanging+/change: changeable, changed, changeful, changeless, changer, changes, changing, counterchange, interchange/changeable: changeability, changeableness, changeablest, changeably, unchangeable/changed: unchanged/changeful: changefully, changefulness/changeless: changelessly, changelessness/changer: changers/changing: changingly, unchanging/counterchange: counterchanged, counterchanges, counterchanging/interchangeable: interchangeability, interchangeableness, interchangeably, noninterchangeable/unchangeable: unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangeably/unchanged: unchangedly/unchanging: unchangingly, unchangingness USAGE EXAMPLESUnder the Turnpike’s current toll structure, a passenger vehicle pays $2.50 to travel between the Tonganoxie interchange and the eastern terminal near Kansas City. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) His wife located the crumpled car underneath the interchange and called police Saturday, the California Highway Patrol said. Seattle Times(Dec 20, 2016) “Anybody else want to try?” she asked the group after she maneuvered through the interchange. Washington Post(Dec 12, 2016) 1v cause to change places interchange this screw for one of a smaller size Syn|Hyper counterchange, transpose alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 2v put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning Syn|Hypo|Hyper exchange, replace, substitute shift move and exchange for another reducesimplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another truncatereplace a corner by a plane retoolprovide (a workshop or factory) with new tools subrogatesubstitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 3v give to, and receive from, one another Syn|Hypo|Hyper change, exchange sell exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent cash, cash inexchange for cash ransom, redeemexchange or buy back for money; under threat redeemto turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange fill in, stand in, sub, substitutebe a substitute swap, switch, swop, tradeexchange or give (something) in exchange for barterexchange goods without involving money trade, trade inturn in as payment or part payment for a purchase clearsell negociatesell or discount scalpsell illegally, as on the black market bootlegsell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol sell shortsell securities or commodities or foreign currency that is not actually owned by the seller, who hopes to cover (buy back) the sold items at a lower price and thus to earn a profit remaindersell cheaply as remainders resellsell (something) again after having bought it syndicatesell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations deaccessionsell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works sell offget rid of by selling, usually at reduced prices fob off, foist off, palm offsell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive realise, realizeconvert into cash; of goods and property auction, auction off, auctioneersell at an auction retailsell on the retail market wholesalesell in large quantities liquidateconvert into cash redeemconvert into cash; of commercial papers barter awaytrade in in a bartering transaction sacrificesell at a loss dump, underpricesell at artificially low prices undercut, undersellsell cheaper than one's competition disposegive, sell, or transfer to another movedispose of by selling transfer cause to change ownership 4v reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) Syn|Hyper alternate, flip, flip-flop, switch, tack change by reversal, reverse, turn change to the contrary 5n the act of changing one thing for another thing there was an interchange of prisoners Syn|Hypo|Hyper exchange trade-off, tradeoff an exchange that occurs as a compromise group action action taken by a group of people 6n reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries) he earns his living from the interchange of currency Syn|Hypo|Hyper exchange conversion act of exchanging one type of money or security for another barter, swap, swop, tradean equal exchange foreign exchangethe system by which one currency is exchanged for another; enables international transactions to take place unitisation, unitizationconversion of an investment trust into a unit investment trust horse trade, horse tradingthe swapping of horses (accompanied by much bargaining) commerce, commercialism, mercantilism transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) 7n a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams Hypo|Hyper cloverleaf an interchange that does not require left-hand turns spaghetti junctiona complicated highway interchange with multiple overpasses junction the place where two or more things come together 8n mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) Syn|Hypo|Hyper give-and-take, reciprocation reciprocity mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges cross-fertilisation, cross-fertilizationinterchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial dealings, trafficsocial or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') relation(usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups interaction a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting |
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