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Exchange   /ɪkstʃˈeɪndʒ/   Listen
Exchange

noun
1.
Chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another.
2.
A mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one).
3.
The act of changing one thing for another thing.  Synonym: interchange.  "There was an interchange of prisoners"
4.
The act of giving something in return for something received.
5.
A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication.  Synonyms: central, telephone exchange.
6.
A workplace for buying and selling; open only to members.
7.
(sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes.  Synonym: rally.
8.
Reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries).  Synonym: interchange.
9.
The act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:.  Synonyms: commutation, substitution.
10.
(chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop.
11.
(chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value.
verb
(past & past part. exchanged; pres. part. exchanging)
1.
Give to, and receive from, one another.  Synonyms: change, interchange.  "We have been exchanging letters for a year"
2.
Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category.  Synonyms: change, commute, convert.  "He changed his name" , "Convert centimeters into inches" , "Convert holdings into shares"
3.
Change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence.  Synonyms: switch, switch over.
4.
Hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent.  "Exchange employees between branches of the company"
5.
Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items.  Synonyms: interchange, replace, substitute.  "Substitute regular milk with fat-free milk" , "Synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
6.
Exchange a penalty for a less severe one.  Synonyms: commute, convert.



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"Exchange" Quotes from Famous Books



... never left him. For seven days and seven nights did Isal sit beside him. Then he died, and she, just able to reach her old cot, lay down upon it, weak and suffering. For seven days and seven nights did she lie there, racked with pain. This was a sad exchange for her happy life in the Palace; but she never repented; she could not when she saw the dead face with its heavenly smile still ...
— Seven Little People and their Friends • Horace Elisha Scudder
... noose, the lead, the snares, the lure— Our dismal heroes, our souls sunk in night. Black weeds again denote that extreme folly Which makes us blind, mournful, and woe-begone: For dusk is dear to doleful melancholy; Nathless fate's wheel still turns: this raiment dun We shall exchange hereafter for the holy Garments of white in which of ...
— Sonnets • Michael Angelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella
... fancy he may have owed a little to his handsome face, and to that quick, responsive nature, formed for love, which speaks eloquently through all disguises, and can stamp an impression in ten minutes' talk or an exchange of glances. He was the more dangerous in that he was far from bold, but seemed to woo in spite of himself, and with a soft and pleading eye. Ragged as he was, and many a scarecrow is in that respect more comfortably ...
— Essays of Travel • Robert Louis Stevenson
... my foot on the beam and make a vow that if battle there will be I shall exchange blows with Broddi Thorleifsson until ...
— Poet Lore, Volume XXIV, Number IV, 1912 • Various
... that of an old man with silvery locks who strongly resembled him. He turned round; there was no one behind him. He again drew near the fountain; he saw the old man, or rather, doubtless, the old man was himself. "Great fairies," he cried. "I understand you. If it is my life that you wish in exchange for that of my grandmother, I joyfully accept the sacrifice." And without troubling himself further about his old age and wrinkles, he plunged his head into the water ...
— Laboulaye's Fairy Book • Various


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