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/ˌɪntərtʃˈeɪndʒ/ /ˌɪnərtʃˈeɪndʒ/ Listen

noun

Interchange n.

The act of mutually changing; the act of mutually giving and receiving; exchange; as, the interchange of civilities between two persons. "Interchange of kindnesses."

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

Alternate succession; alternation; a mingling. "The interchanges of light and darkness." "Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains."

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.

verb

Interchange v. t. (past & past part. interchanged; pres. part. interchanging)

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."

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

Interchange v. i. To make an interchange; to alternate.

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"Interchange" Quotes from Famous Books

... a country considers first the two uttermost cities (its principal terminals), or those two portions of the country which it seeks to connect for the interchange ...

— The Mountain Divide • Frank H. Spearman

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... in certain directions, what the other cannot; and in other directions, where both can do the same things, one sex, as a rule, can do them better than the other; and in still other matters they seem to be so nearly alike, that they can interchange labor without perceptible difference. All this is so well known, that it would be useless to refer to it, were it not that much of the discussion of the irrepressible woman-question, and many of the efforts for bettering her education and widening her sphere, seem to ignore any difference ...

— Sex in Education - or, A Fair Chance for Girls • Edward H. Clarke

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... {131} commandments'; and the particular duties He mentioned were those of the second table of the Decalogue.[11] The abundance of life which Christ offers consists in the mutual offices of love and the interchange of service. Thus self-realisation is attained only through self-surrender.[13] The self-centred life is a barren life. Not by withholding our seed but by flinging it forth freely upon the broad waters of humanity do we attain to that rich fruition ...

— Christianity and Ethics - A Handbook of Christian Ethics • Archibald B. C. Alexander

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... in no way to conceal from each other the condition of such of their industries as are capable of being adapted to warlike purposes or the scale of their armaments, and agree that there shall be full and frank interchange of information as to their ...

— World's War Events, Volume III • Various

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... severity, upbraiding Addison with perpetual dependance, and with the abuse of those qualifications which he had obtained at the publick cost, and charging him with mean endeavours to obstruct the progress of rising merit. The contest rose so high, that they parted at last without any interchange of civility. ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes - Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II • Samuel Johnson

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