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In freight rail transport , interchange is the practice of railroads conveying freight cars ("foreign" cars) from other companies over their lines. This benefits shippers, whose cargo might otherwise have to be transhipped if the point of origin and destination ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interchange \In`ter*change"\, v. i. To make an interchange; to alternate. --Sir P. Sidney.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French entrechangier , from entre- (see inter- ) + changier "to change" (see change (v.)). Related: Interchanged ; interchanging .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES electronic data interchange COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE electronic ▪ But, in general, they include systems for design, production control, distribution, electronic data interchange and so on. ▪ Specific technologies ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams mutual interaction; the activity of interchanging or reciprocating [syn: reciprocation , give-and-take ] reciprocal transfer ...
Usage examples of interchange.
But with the scimitar of Hassan of Aleppo stretched over me, with the dangers of the night before me, I was in no mood for a veiled duel of words, for an interchange of glances in thrust and parry, however delightful such warfare might have been with so pretty an adversary.
Kreiss was sitting in the parking lot of a fast-food joint three blocks from the Beltway interchange with U.
I found a place of power right on my way home --the interchange at Braker and Loop 1.
While rather an overstatement, the reference serves to illustrate at least the interchange of counterinsurgent information, if not to trace a specific inspiration for the use of the tactic in the Philippines.
Docklands the A13 road to Southend passes through Beckton and its sewage farms, across Barking Creek with its own barrier rising above the factory roofs and past the Ford engine works at Dagenham, before cutting inland to the M25 interchange at Dartford.
Indra, from the meanest worm to the supreme Buddha, constitute one fraternal race, by the unavoidable effects of the law of retribution constantly interchanging their residences in a succession of rising and sinking existences, ranging through all the earths, heavens, and hells of the universe, bound by the terrible links of merit and demerit in the phantasmagoric dungeon of births and deaths.
I say, that under such circumstances these ships should not only interchange hails, but come into still closer, more friendly and sociable contact.
He interchanged the leads to lockers one and three, so that the thawing timer meant for unit one controlled his own locker.
Badri Nazim stared at this interchange, Pig took the opportunity to jump two of her pawns with his rook.
Then Mortimer said something maddeningly oblique, and Nerita replied with the same off-center mystification, and Mein once more was plunged into the river of their easy dancing wordplay, down into it, down and down and down, and as he struggled to keep from drowning, as he fought to comprehend their interchanges, he never once looked toward the place where Sybille sat, not even once, and congratulated himself on having accomplished that much at least in his masquerade.
But it was a fair possibility that a bold or foolish few had braved the trip back and had lived to tell of what was on the other side of the potluck portal on Seven Suns Interchange, though that might be only one of several portals leading into the Outworlds.
Goldiehouse except briefly since the exchange at Roundtree, he only became aware of the interchange when he returned from Edinburgh in early June.
After a few more interchanges and some seriocomic pantomime on the part of Keikano who now stood a pace behind his minister, Crispin Reventlo dirust out his hand.
By carefully examining a huge sample set of Calabi-Yau spaces that they had generated by computer, they found that almost all came in pairs differing precisely by the interchange of the number of even and odd holes.
Carl and Ted interchanged a glance of intrigues and preoccupation and began to leave, but Julie wagged the head, doing to them signs of which they remained.