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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



... failed to keep his interest. The sense of contrast between his own idleness and his mates' industry took all the pleasure out of his book. He tossed it aside and stood up. A motor-boat was rounding the eastern point. Percy recognized her as the Calista. Ordinarily he would have been glad to exchange chaff with Captain Higgins and Brad while they dipped the lobsters out of the car. This morning, however, he felt too much disgruntled to ...
— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman
... what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his ...
— The Art of Soul-Winning • J.W. Mahood
... in the shroud did lurk A curious frame of Nature's work; A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying: So soon to exchange the imprisoning womb For darker closets of the tomb! She did but ope an eye, and put A clear beam forth, then straight up shut For the long dark: ne'er more to see Through glasses of mortality. Riddle of destiny, ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... metric, dated 1459, and once the property of a priest at Alencon. In 1877 M. Gaston Paris called the attention of the learned to it, and the result was that the Danish Government received it next year in exchange for a valuable French manuscript which was in the Royal Library at Copenhagen. This little national treasure, the only piece of contemporary writing of the History, has been carefully photographed and edited by that enthusiastic and urbane scholar, ...
— The Danish History, Books I-IX • Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
... descend by the Rue Faubourg Montmartre to the Boulevards, and bearing a little westward, shall come to the very handsome Rue Vivienne, through which we will proceed until we are opposite the Bourse (Exchange), and there we pause and contemplate what I consider the beau ideal of fine architecture; its noble range of 66 corinthian columns have no unseemly projections to break the broad mass of light, which sheds its full expanse upon their large rounded shafts, no profusion of frittering ...
— How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 • F. Herve


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