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INTERCHANGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)

Synonyms:

give-and-take; interchange; reciprocation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("interchange" is a kind of...):

interaction (a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interchange"):

reciprocity (mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges)

cross-fertilisation; cross-fertilization (interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial)

dealings; traffic (social or verbal interchange (usually followed by 'with'))

Derivation:

interchange (give to, and receive from, one another)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)

Example:

he earns his living from the interchange of currency

Synonyms:

exchange; interchange

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("interchange" is a kind of...):

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interchange"):

conversion (act of exchanging one type of money or security for another)

barter; swap; swop; trade (an equal exchange)

foreign exchange (the system by which one currency is exchanged for another; enables international transactions to take place)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of changing one thing for another thing

Example:

there was an interchange of prisoners

Synonyms:

exchange; interchange

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("interchange" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interchange"):

trade-off; tradeoff (an exchange that occurs as a compromise)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("interchange" is a kind of...):

junction (the place where two or more things come together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interchange"):

cloverleaf (an interchange that does not require left-hand turns)

spaghetti junction (a complicated highway interchange with multiple overpasses)

Holonyms ("interchange" is a part of...):

highway; main road (a major road for any form of motor transport)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)

Synonyms:

alternate; flip; flip-flop; interchange; switch; tack

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "interchange" is one way to...):

change by reversal; reverse; turn (change to the contrary)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to change places

Example:

interchange this screw for one of a smaller size

Synonyms:

counterchange; interchange; transpose

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "interchange" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Give to, and receive from, one another

Example:

We have been exchanging letters for a year

Synonyms:

change; exchange; interchange

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "interchange" is one way to...):

transfer (cause to change ownership)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "interchange"):

trade; trade in (turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase)

barter (exchange goods without involving money)

swap; switch; swop; trade (exchange or give (something) in exchange for)

fill in; stand in; sub; substitute (be a substitute)

redeem (to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange)

ransom; redeem (exchange or buy back for money; under threat)

cash; cash in (exchange for cash)

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

interchange (mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items

Example:

synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning

Synonyms:

exchange; interchange; replace; substitute

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "interchange" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "interchange"):

shift (move and exchange for another)

reduce (simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another)

truncate (replace a corner by a plane)

retool (provide (a workshop or factory) with new tools)

subrogate (substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s something with something

Credits

 Context examples: 

In the daily interchange of news, they must be again restricted to the other topics with which for a while the Sucklings' coming had been united, such as the last accounts of Mrs. Churchill, whose health seemed every day to supply a different report, and the situation of Mrs. Weston, whose happiness it was to be hoped might eventually be as much increased by the arrival of a child, as that of all her neighbours was by the approach of it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

To create and encourage a stimulating approach to disease curricula that will attract high-quality students, foster academic career development of promising young teacher-investigators, develop and implement excellent multidisciplinary curricula through interchange of ideas, and enable the grantee institution to strengthen its existing teaching program.

(Academic Career Award, NCI Thesaurus)

An associate's degree awarded upon completion of a course of study usually lasting two years with a focus on business, including the processes of interchanging goods and services (buying, selling and producing), business organization, and accounting as used in profit-making and nonprofit public and private institutions and agencies.

(Associate of Business Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

To create and encourage a stimulating approach to disease curricula that will attract high quality students, foster academic career development of promising young teacher-investigators, develop and implement excellent multidisciplinary curricula through interchange of ideas and enable grantee institution to strengthen its existing teaching program.

(Academic/Teacher Award, NCI Thesaurus)

Let him live with me in the interchange of kindness, and instead of injury I would bestow every benefit upon him with tears of gratitude at his acceptance.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I have never, but in your presence, interchanged a word with him from that time; then, only when it has been necessary for the avoidance of this explanation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She could not quit that room in peace without seeing Captain Wentworth once more, without the interchange of one friendly look.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I have scarcely interchanged a syllable with one of them; and as to thinking well of them, I consider some respectable, and stately, and middle-aged, and others young, dashing, handsome, and lively: but certainly they are all at liberty to be the recipients of whose smiles they please, without my feeling disposed to consider the transaction of any moment to me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For nature (as the physicians allege) having intended the superior anterior orifice only for the intromission of solids and liquids, and the inferior posterior for ejection, these artists ingeniously considering that in all diseases nature is forced out of her seat, therefore, to replace her in it, the body must be treated in a manner directly contrary, by interchanging the use of each orifice; forcing solids and liquids in at the anus, and making evacuations at the mouth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They possessed a delightful house (for such it was in my eyes) and every luxury; they had a fire to warm them when chill and delicious viands when hungry; they were dressed in excellent clothes; and, still more, they enjoyed one another’s company and speech, interchanging each day looks of affection and kindness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)