interchange

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: in=ter=change

CIDE DICTIONARY

interchange, v. t. [OE. entrechangen, OF. entrechangier. See Inter-, and Change.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "I shall interchange
  My waned state for Henry's regal crown."  [1913 Webster]
•  To cause to follow alternately; to intermingle; to vary; as, to interchange cares with pleasures.  [1913 Webster]

interchange, v. i. 

 To make an interchange; to alternate.  Sir P. Sidney.  [1913 Webster]

interchange, n. [Cf. OF. entrechange.].

•  The act of mutually changing; the act of mutually giving and receiving; exchange; as, the interchange of civilities between two persons.  South.  [1913 Webster]
•  The mutual exchange of commodities between two persons or countries; barter; commerce.  Howell.  [1913 Webster]
•  Alternate succession; alternation; a mingling.  [1913 Webster]

  "The interchanges of light and darkness."  [1913 Webster]

  "Sweet interchange
  Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

interchange, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 (of two people) exchange (things) with each other.
2 put each of (two things) in the other's place; alternate.
--n.
1 (often foll. by of) a reciprocal exchange between two people etc.
2 alternation (the interchange of woods and fields).
3 a road junction designed so that traffic streams do not intersect.

Derivative

interchangeable adj. interchangeability n. interchangeableness n. interchangeably adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF entrechangier (as INTER-, CHANGE)

THESAURUS

interchange

ESP, access, accord, agency, agree, agree with, aisle, alley, alternate, alternation, ambulatory, answer, aperture, arcade, artery, avenue, bandy, barter, bartering, be in connection, be in contact, be quits with, boomerang, brokerage, buy and sell, buying and selling, change, channel, chime in with, cloister, coact, coaction, colonnade, comeback, commerce, commerce with, commune with, communicate, communication, communion, commute, compensate, complementary distribution, concurrence, conduction, conduit, congress, connection, contact, contagion, convection, conversation, converse, cooperate, cooperation, correspond, correspondence, corridor, cotton to, counter, counterblast, counterblow, counterchange, counterstroke, covered way, deal, deal with, dealing, dealings, defile, delivery, deportation, diapedesis, diffusion, dissemination, do business, doing business, dovetail, empathize, engage, engagement, exchange, exit, export, exportation, expulsion, extradition, fall in with, ferry, ford, gallery, get along, get along with, get back at, get even with, get on with, give and take, give in exchange, give-and-take, handy, harmonize, harmonize with, have dealings with, have intercourse, have truck with, hold communication, horse trading, horse-trade, identify with, import, importation, information, inlet, interact, interaction, intercommunicate, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interlace, interlacing, intermesh, intermeshing, interplay, intersection, intertwine, intertwining, interweave, interweaving, interwork, interworking, jobbing, junction, lane, linguistic intercourse, logroll, merchandising, mesh, meshing, message, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, mortise, mutual transfer, opening, osmosis, outlet, overpass, pass, passage, passageway, passing over, pay back, perfusion, permute, portico, quid pro quo, railroad tunnel, reciprocate, reciprocation, recoil, reply, requite, respond, respond to, response, retailing, retaliate, retaliation, retort, return, return the compliment, reverse, seesaw, sing in chorus, social intercourse, speak, speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, spread, spreading, swap, swap horses, swapping, switch, sympathize, take in exchange, talk, talking, telepathy, tit for tat, touch, trade, trade in, trade off, trade sight unseen, trading, traffic, traffic with, trafficking, traject, trajet, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transplacement, transplantation, transposal, transpose, transposition, travel, truck, tunnel, two-way communication, underpass, understand one another, wheeling and dealing, wholesaling

ROGET THESAURUS

interchange

Correlation

N correlation, reciprocalness, reciprocity, reciprocation, mutuality, correlation, interdependence, interrelation, connection, link, association, interchange, exchange, barter, reciprocator, reprocitist, reciprocal, mutual, commutual, correlative, reciprocative, interrelated, closely related, alternate, interchangeable, interdependent, international, complemental, complementary, mutually, mutatis mutandis, vice versa, each other, one another, by turns, reciprocally, happy in our mutual help.

VB reciprocate, alternate, interchange, exchange, counterchange.

Derangement

N derangement, disorder, evection, discomposure, disturbance, disorganization, deorganization, dislocation, perturbation, interruption, shuffling, inversion, corrugation, involvement, interchange, deranged, syncretic, syncretistic, mussy, messy, flaky, random, unordered.

Barter

N barter, exchange, scorse, truck system, interchange, a Roland for an Oliver, quid pro quo, commutation, composition, Indian gift, trade, commerce, mercature, buying and selling, bargain and sale, traffic, business, nundination, custom, shopping, commercial enterprise, speculation, jobbing, stockjobbing, agiotage, brokery, deal, dealing, transaction, negotiation, bargain, free trade, commercial, mercantile, trading, interchangeable, marketable, staple, in the market, for sale, wholesale, retail, across the counter, cambio non e furto.

VB barter, exchange, swap, swop, truck, scorse, interchange, commutate, compound for, trade, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate, carry on a trade, ply a trade, drive a trade, be in business, be in the city, keep a shop, deal in, employ one's capital in, trade with, deal with, have dealings with, transact business with, do business with, open an account with, keep an account with, bargain, drive a bargain, make a bargain, negotiate, bid for, haggle, higgle, dicker, chaffer, huckster, cheapen, beat down, stickle, stickle for, out bid, under bid, ask, charge, strike a bargain, speculate, give a sprat to catch a herring, buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market, buy low and sell high, corner the market, rig the market, stag the market.

Interchange

N interchange, exchange, commutation, permutation, intermutation, reciprocation, transposition, rearrangement, shuffling, alternation, reciprocity, castling (at chess), hocus-pocus, interchangeableness, interchangeability, recombination, combination, barter, tit for tat, cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock, quid pro quo, interchanged, reciprocal, mutual, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent, combinatorial, recombinant, in exchange, vice versa, mutatis mutandis, backwards and forwards, by turns, turn and turn about, each in his turn, everyone in his turn.

VB interchange, exchange, counterchange, bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute, give and take, return the compliment, play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock, retaliate, requite, rearrange, recombine.