interchange

• WordNet 3.6
  • v interchange reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
  • v interchange cause to change places "interchange this screw for one of a smaller size"
  • v interchange give to, and receive from, one another "Would you change places with me?","We have been exchanging letters for a year"
  • v interchange put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt","substitute regular milk with fat-free milk","synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
  • n interchange mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
  • n interchange reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries) "he earns his living from the interchange of currency"
  • n interchange the act of changing one thing for another thing "Adam was promised immortality in exchange for his disobedience","there was an interchange of prisoners"
  • n interchange a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
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• Interesting fact: The words moron, imbecile, and idiot are not interchangable. The one with the highest level of intelligence is a moron, followed, by an imbecile, and then idiot
• • Interchange Alternate succession; alternation; a mingling. "The interchanges of light and darkness.""Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains."
  • Interchange An intersection between highways, having two or more levels and a series of connecting roadways so that traffic on one highway may pass over or under the other highway without crossing through the line of traffic, and vehicles may pass from one highway to the other while traffic on both highways continues uninterrupted. A common interchange is the cloverleaf.
  • Interchange The act of mutually changing; the act of mutually giving and receiving; exchange; as, the interchange of civilities between two persons. "Interchange of kindnesses."
  • Interchange The mutual exchange of commodities between two persons or countries; barter; commerce.
  • Interchange To cause to follow alternately; to intermingle; to vary; as, to interchange cares with pleasures.
  • v. i Interchange To make an interchange; to alternate.
  • Interchange 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. "I shall interchange My waned state for Henry's regal crown."
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• • interchange To exchange mutually or reciprocally; put each of in the place of the other; give and take in reciprocity: as, to interchange commodities; to interchange compliments or duties.
  • interchange To cause to follow one another alternately: as, to interchange cares with pleasures.
  • interchange To change reciprocally; succeed alternately.
  • n interchange The act of exchanging reciprocally; the act or process of giving and receiving with reciprocity: as, an interchange of civilities or kind offices.
  • n interchange Alternate succession: as, the interchange of light and darkness.
  • n interchange Synonyms See exchange.
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• • v.t Interchange in-tėr-chānj′ to give and take mutually: to exchange
  • v.i Interchange to succeed alternately
  • n Interchange mutual exchange: alternate succession
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• Gore Vidal

  

  “Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
• Francis Bacon

  

  “Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.”
• Oliver Wendell Holmes

  

  “Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”

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