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Interchange
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- 1 An act of interchanging. countable, uncountable
"That was one of three superb saves Hennessey made in the opening 45 minutes, the best of which was from Dzeko, who had been released by a slick interchange involving Silva and Sergio Aguero."
- 2 mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) wordnet
- 3 A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic. countable
- 4 reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries) wordnet
- 5 A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway. countable
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- 6 the act of changing one thing for another thing wordnet
- 7 A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made. countable
"Holborn tube station is the only interchange between the London Underground Central and Piccadilly Lines."
- 8 a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams wordnet
- 9 A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange. countable, uncountable
"David and I were not "intimate" friends. There was always a certain old-worldly formality about our interchanges. There was something professorial and distant about David, something that commanded respect, partially, I think, because he was so respectful himself."
- 1 to switch (each of two things) transitive
"to interchange places"
- 2 reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) wordnet
- 3 to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange transitive
"I shall interchange / My waned state for Henry's regal crown."
- 4 cause to change places wordnet
- 5 to swap or change places intransitive
"The poem is written in an alef-lamed, bet-nun acrostic form. This is a formula of permutation of letters wherein the first interchanges with the twelfth, the second with the thirteenth, etc."
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- 6 give to, and receive from, one another wordnet
- 7 to alternate; to intermingle or vary transitive
"to interchange cares with pleasures"
- 8 put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items wordnet
- 9 To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
"But those 13 miles go through central London, and where the Underground interchanges with Crossrail, its own stations will be boosted and glamorised, especially at Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road."
Etymology
From Old French entrechange, by surface analysis, inter- + change.
From Old French entrechange, by surface analysis, inter- + change.
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