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Interchange   /ˌɪntərtʃˈeɪndʒ/  /ˌɪnərtʃˈeɪndʒ/   Listen
Interchange

noun
1.
A junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams.
2.
Mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information).  Synonyms: give-and-take, reciprocation.
3.
The act of changing one thing for another thing.  Synonym: exchange.  "There was an interchange of prisoners"
4.
Reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries).  Synonym: exchange.
verb
(past & past part. interchanged; pres. part. interchanging)
1.
Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items.  Synonyms: exchange, replace, substitute.  "Substitute regular milk with fat-free milk" , "Synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
2.
Give to, and receive from, one another.  Synonyms: change, exchange.  "We have been exchanging letters for a year"
3.
Cause to change places.  Synonyms: counterchange, transpose.
4.
Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action).  Synonyms: alternate, flip, flip-flop, switch, tack.



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"Interchange" Quotes from Famous Books



... York, they were not engaged in traffic and hence not in "commerce" in the sense of the Constitution. This argument Chief Justice Marshall answered as follows: "The subject to be regulated is commerce; * * * The counsel for the appellee would limit it to traffic, to buying and selling, or the interchange of commodities, and do not admit that it comprehends navigation. This would restrict a general term, applicable to many objects, to one of its significations. Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more—it is intercourse."[308] The term, therefore, included navigation—a ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

... work Exact of Polybus; one, re-supine, Upcast it high toward the dusky clouds, The other, springing into air, with ease 460 Received it, ere he sank to earth again. When thus they oft had sported with the ball Thrown upward, next, with nimble interchange They pass'd it to each other many a time, Footing the plain, while ev'ry youth of all The circus clapp'd his hands, and from beneath The din of stamping feet fill'd all the air. Then, turning to Alcinoues, thus the wise Ulysses spake: Alcinoues! mighty King! Illustrious ...
— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer

... danger of such a disastrous consummation? We answer, that the mere coexistence of the theory of Ecclesiastical Development with the infidel speculations on the doctrine of Human Progress is of itself an ominous symptom; and, further, that the mutual interchange of complimentary acknowledgments between the Infidel and Popish parties is another, especially when both are found to coincide in some of the main grounds of their opposition to Scripture as the ...
— Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws • James Buchanan

... last session of the Thirty-eighth Congress. To him thus engaged was handed a telegram from General Grant, saying that General Lee had suggested an interview between himself and Grant in the hope that, upon an interchange of views, they might reach a satisfactory adjustment of the present unhappy difficulties through a military convention. Immediately, exchanging no word with ...
— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II • John T. Morse

... know and remember, was a city built on the sea coast, having a large and free communication with all foreign nations; and there was also within it, and going on amongst its inhabitants, a free interchange of thought, and a vivid power of communicating the philosophy and truths of those days to each other. Now it is plain, that to a society in such a state, and to minds so educated, the gospel of Christ must have presented a peculiar attraction, presenting itself to them as it ...
— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson


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