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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
interchange
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 under investigation include advanced software, microprocessors, computer-aided production management, electronic data interchange and biotechnology.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a friendly interchange of greetings
▪ The conference provides a forum for the interchange of ideas and information.
▪ The new program should help solve some of the problems of data interchange between companies with different computer systems.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At this fundamental level of resource there can not be any easy interchange without changing an old or creating a new religion.
▪ By social interaction, Piaget meant the interchange of ideas among people.
▪ He wants to see grade-separated interchanges, and not freeways, become a major part of the congestion solution.
▪ Quite often a series of progressively unpleasant interchanges will take place with the child becoming more obstinate and the parent more angry.
▪ That interchange is extremely healthy because of the experience of management and politics which work in local government gives the ambitious solicitor.
▪ The militia is really a direct-mail marketing operation for conspiracy theory videos and a busy interchange on the information superhighway.
▪ There are four extra stations, including an interchange with Line 5 at Chonho.
▪ Whether primary, secondary or adult education, the teaching situation is a human transaction, an interchange between persons.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The two spices can be easily interchanged.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Furthermore, cable may make it possible for people to interchange information on a rapid two-way basis.
▪ Merit will have the central role in technical coordination for Internet service providers who need to interchange traffic.
▪ The four cylinder diesel units will interchange with the four cylinder petrols with suitable pipework and wiring and throttle linkage.
▪ There were two identical copies of each object that were interchanged regularly between trials.
▪ They are interchanged by offensive coordinator Ron Erhardt depending on down, distance and score of game.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interchange

Interchange \In`ter*change"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interchanged; p. pr. & vb. n. Interchanging.] [OE. entrechangen, OF. entrechangier. See Inter-, and Change.]

  1. 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.
    --Shak.

  2. To cause to follow alternately; to intermingle; to vary; as, to interchange cares with pleasures.

Interchange

Interchange \In`ter*change"\, v. i. To make an interchange; to alternate.
--Sir P. Sidney.

Interchange

Interchange \In`ter*change"\, n. [Cf. OF. entrechange.]

  1. The act of mutually changing; the act of mutually giving and receiving; exchange; as, the interchange of civilities between two persons. ``Interchange of kindnesses.''
    --South.

  2. The mutual exchange of commodities between two persons or countries; barter; commerce.
    --Howell.

  3. Alternate succession; alternation; a mingling.

    The interchanges of light and darkness.
    --Holder.

    Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
    --Milton.

  4. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
interchange

late 14c., from Old French entrechangier, from entre- (see inter-) + changier "to change" (see change (v.)). Related: Interchanged; interchanging.

interchange

1540s, "act of exchange, from Old French entrechange, from entrechangier (see interchange (v.)). In reference to a type of road junction, 1944.

Wiktionary
interchange

n. An act of interchanging. vb. 1 (context transitive English) to switch (each of two things) 2 (context transitive English) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange 3 (context intransitive English) to swap or change places 4 (context transitive English) to alternate; to intermingle or vary

WordNet
interchange
  1. n. 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 interchanging or reciprocating [syn: reciprocation, give-and-take]

  3. reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money especially the currencies of different countries; "he earns his living from the interchange of currency" [syn: exchange]

  4. v. give to, and receive from, one another; "Would you change places with me?"; "We have been exchanging letters for a year" [syn: exchange, change]

  5. cause to change places; "interchange this screw for one of a smaller size" [syn: counterchange, transpose]

  6. reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) [syn: tack, switch, alternate, flip, flip-flop]

Wikipedia
Interchange

Interchange may refer to:

Interchange (road)
Interchange (Australian rules football)

Interchange (or, colloquially, the bench or interchange bench) is a team position in Australian rules football, consisting of players who are part of the selected team but are not currently on the field of play.

Interchange (freight rail)

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 are not both served by the same company.

In passenger rail transport the term through car or through coach is used to denote a passenger car which is conveyed from one train to another, even within the same system.

Interchange is sometimes equivalent to the practice of demurrage.

Interchange (album)

Interchange is an album by guitarist Pat Martino which was recorded in 1994 and first released on the Muse label.

Interchange (de Kooning)

Interchange is a painting by abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning. It measures and was completed in 1955. In September 2015, it was sold by the David Geffen Foundation to Kenneth C. Griffin for $300 million, the highest price for a painting to date. It has been on loan at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Interchange (film)

Interchange is a 2016 Malaysian fantasy thriller film directed by Dain Iskandar Said and starring Shaheizy Sam, Nicholas Saputra, Prisia Nasution, Alvin Wong and Iedil Putra.

The movie had premiered in the Locarno International Film Festival on 5 August 2016 and is slated to be released in Malaysian cinemas on the 1st of December on the same year.

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.