INTERCHANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interchange mean? 

• INTERCHANGE (noun)
  The noun INTERCHANGE has 4 senses:

1. 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 reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)

3. the act of changing one thing for another thing

4. reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)

  Familiarity information: INTERCHANGE used as a noun is uncommon.

• INTERCHANGE (verb)
  The verb INTERCHANGE has 4 senses:

1. put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items

2. give to, and receive from, one another

3. cause to change places

4. reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)

  Familiarity information: INTERCHANGE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERCHANGE (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

give-and-take; interchange; reciprocation

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

interaction (a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting)

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

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'))

reciprocity (mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges)

Derivation:

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of changing one thing for another thing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

exchange; interchange

Context example:

there was an interchange of prisoners

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:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

exchange; interchange

Context example:

he earns his living from the interchange of currency

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)

• INTERCHANGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they interchange    ... he / she / it interchanges   
Past simple: interchanged   
Past participle: interchanged   
-ing form: interchanging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

exchange; interchange; replace; substitute

Context example:

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give to, and receive from, one another

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

change; exchange; interchange

Context example:

We have been exchanging letters for a year

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

transfer (cause to change ownership)

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

cash; cash in (exchange for cash)

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)

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 3

Meaning:

Cause to change places

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

counterchange; interchange; transpose

Context example:

interchange this screw for one of a smaller size

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

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

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

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

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

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

Let the occiputs, thus cut off, be interchanged, applying each to the head of his opposite party-man.

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

Without interchanging a word they went slowly out of the room together, Uriah looking after them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Structurally, it is similar to glucose with the OH and H groups interchanged at carbon-2.

(Mannose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

He continued, You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

So they soon forgot their pride and interchanged kindnesses without stopping to think which was the greater.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Charles, Henrietta, and Captain Wentworth were the three in consultation, and for a little while it was only an interchange of perplexity and terror.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Christmas and the New Year had been celebrated at Gateshead with the usual festive cheer; presents had been interchanged, dinners and evening parties given.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Interchanges of genetic material among different chromosomes following the breaking off of pieces of chromosomes such that the total chromosome composition may still contain all of the genetic material.Balanced Chromosomal Rearrangement.

(Balanced Chromosomal Translocation, NCI Thesaurus)

Phrases, lines, and stanzas were cut out, interchanged, or juggled about in the most incomprehensible manner.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A physiological model of the kinetics of uptake involving interchanges, such as of an isotope in a tracer, between compartments used to determine rate constants, such as by fitting dynamic scan data to this model.

(Compartmental Model, NCI Thesaurus)