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in⋅ter⋅change

[v. in-ter-cheynj; n. in-ter-cheynj] verb, -changed, -chang⋅ing, noun
–verb (used with object)
1. to put each in the place of the other: to interchange pieces of modular furniture.
2. to cause (one thing) to change places with another; transpose.
3. to give and receive (things) reciprocally; exchange: The twins interchanged clothes frequently.
4. to cause to follow one another alternately; alternate: to interchange business cares with pleasures.
–verb (used without object)
5. to occur by turns or in succession; alternate.
6. to change places, as two persons or things, or as one with another.
–noun
7. an act or instance of interchanging; reciprocal exchange: the interchange of commodities.
8. a changing of places, as between two persons or things, or of one with another.
9. alternation; alternate succession.
10. a highway intersection consisting of a system of several different road levels arranged so that vehicles may move from one road to another without crossing the streams of traffic.

Origin:
1325–75; inter- + change; r. ME entrechaungen < MF entrechangier


in⋅ter⋅chang⋅er, noun
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in·ter·change   (ĭn'tər-chānj')   
v.   in·ter·changed, in·ter·chang·ing, in·ter·chang·es

v.   tr.
  1. To switch each of (two things) into the place of the other.

  2. To give and receive mutually; exchange.

  3. To cause to succeed each other in a series or pattern; alternate: interchanged gold and silver beads in the bracelet.

v.   intr.
  1. To change places with each other.

  2. To succeed each other; alternate.

n.   (ĭn'tər-chānj')
  1. The act or process of interchanging.

  2. A highway intersection designed to permit traffic to move freely from one road to another without crossing another line of traffic.


[Middle English enterchaungen, from Old French entrechangier, to change : entre-, between (from Latin inter-; see inter-) + changier, to change; see change.]
in'ter·chang'er n.
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interchange  (v.)
c.1374, from O.Fr. entrechangier, from entre- (from L. inter-) + changier "to change." The noun in ref. to a type of road junction is first recorded 1944.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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