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Another word for interchange

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Verb

  1. To give up in return for something else

      1. To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else).
      2. To trade one thing for another.
      3. To exchange, trade, or barter
      1. To buy and sell (stocks, for example).
      2. To carry on a trade or business
      3. To give in exchange for something else:
      1. To transfer (a railroad train or car) from one set of tracks to another by use of a switch; shunt
      2. (--- Informal) To produce as if by operating a control. Often used with on :
      3. To shift; transfer; change
      1. (Now Rare) To take the place of
      2. (Chemistry) To replace (one or more atoms or groups in a compound) by other atoms or groups.
      3. To put or use in place of another
      1. (Linguistics) To be altered as part of a systematic historical change. Used of speech sounds.
      2. To change position, direction, form, character, etc.
      3. To change gears, as when driving an automobile.
      1. To give up for a substitute:
      2. To give and receive reciprocally; interchange:
      3. To give in return for something received; trade:
      1. To serve as a substitute.
      2. To pay in gross, usually at a reduced rate, rather than in individual payments.
      3. To change (a penalty, debt, or payment) to a less severe one.
      1. To give or receive the equivalent of (a coin or bank note) in currency of lower denominations or in foreign money
      2. To lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; switch:
      3. To put a fresh covering on:
    See also:

    substitute

    change

  2. To give and receive

      1. To give up for a substitute:
      2. (Finance) To pass in exchange
      3. To give and receive reciprocally; interchange:
      1. To pass (gossip, rumor, etc.) about freely and carelessly
      2. To give and take; specif., to exchange (words) in an angry or argumentative manner
      3. To give and receive (words, for example); exchange:
    See also:

    give

  3. To do, use, or occur in successive turns

      1. To turn around or cause to turn around a center point or axis; revolve
      2. To proceed in sequence; take turns or alternate:
      3. To plant or grow (crops) in a fixed order of succession.
      1. (Electricity) To reverse direction at regular intervals in a circuit.
      2. To pass back and forth from one state, action, or place to another:
      3. To cause to alternate:
    See also:

    change

Noun

  1. The act of exchanging or substituting

      1. A contract in which two parties agree to exchange periodic interest payments, especially when one payment is at a fixed rate and the other varies according to the performance of a reference rate, such as the prime rate.
      2. (Computing, informal, uncountable) Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.
      3. An exchange, trade, or barter
      1. The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
      2. (Music) A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.
      3. (Chess) A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence.
      1. An exchange of one thing for another:
      2. The people working in or associated with a business or industry:
      3. The activity or volume of buying or selling:
      1. A device that controls the flow of current in an electric circuit, esp. by turning the current on or off or diverting it to a particular part of the circuit
      2. A separate tress or plait of natural or synthetic hair bound at one end and used by women as part of a coiffure
      3. A shift, transference, or change, esp. if sudden or unexpected
      1. One that is substituted; a replacement.
      2. The act of substituting or the state of being substituted
      3. (Chemistry) (especially in organic chemistry) the replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another
      1. (Now Chiefly Dial.) A change of clothing
      2. (Linguistics) A systematic change of the phonetic or phonemic structure of a language.
      3. A change in attitude, judgment, or emphasis.
      1. A central office, or a system operated by it, providing telephone communication in a community or in part of a city
      2. The checks, drafts, etc. presented to a clearinghouse for exchange and settlement
      3. A giving or taking of one thing for another; trade; barter
      1. A substitution, exchange, or interchange.
      2. The payment made
      3. (Law) A change of a sentence or punishment to one that is less severe
      1. A number of coins or bills whose total value equals a single larger coin or bill
      2. The replacing of one thing for another; substitution:
      3. In jazz, a change of harmony; a modulation.
    See also:

    substitute

    change

  2. Occurrence in successive turns

      1. The act or process of turning around a center or an axis:
      2. A rotating or being rotated
      3. Regular and uniform variation in a sequence or series:
      1. (Linguis.) The occurrence of a variant of a morpheme or phoneme
      2. The act of alternating; occurrence, position, etc. of things by turns
      3. Successive change from one thing or state to another and back again.
    See also:

    change

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Another word for interchange

Noun

  1. The act of giving and receiving reciprocally

    See also:

    exchange

  2. Alternation

    See also:

    exchange

  3. A highway intersection

      1. A segment of roadway that directs vehicular traffic onto ordinary roads from a freeway
      1. A place where things intersect, especially a place where two or more roads cross.
      2. The point or line where two lines or surfaces meet or cross
      3. (Mathematics) The point or locus of points where one line, surface, or solid crosses another.
      1. (US) (with plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) A cloverleaf interchange.
      2. (with plural cloverleaves) The leaf of a clover plant
      3. A highway interchange at which two highways, one crossing over the other, have a series of entrance and exit ramps resembling the outline of a four-leaf clover and enabling vehicles to proceed in either direction on either highway.
    See also:

    road

    junction

    crossing

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Sentence Examples

  • There is an interchange of the divine and human attributes, a communication of the former which deifies the receptive and passive human nature.

  • cation between communities and the interchange of their products.

  • Terrestrial plants have a gaseous interchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide which is necessary for respiration and feeding.

  • Provision is made for gaseous interchange between the internal tissues and the external air after the formation of cork, by the development of lenticels.

  • Interchange of any two rows or of any two columns merely changes the sign of the determinant.

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