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Definition: Interchange |
InterchangeNoun1. 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 interchanging or reciprocating. 3. Reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money especially the currencies of different countries: "he earns his living from the interchange of currency". Verb1. Give to, and receive from, one another; "Would you change places with me?" "We have been exchanging letters for a year". 2. Cause to change places, as of parts, for example. 3. Reverse, as of direction or attitude. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "interchange" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | In electronic data interchange for administration, commerce and transport(EDIFACT):communication between partners in the form of a structured set of messages and service segments starting with an interchange control header and ending with an interchange control trailer. Source: European Union. (references) |
| In Office Document Architecture(ODA):the process of transferring a document from an originating system to a receiving system. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Energy | The agreement among interconnected utilitiesunder which they buy, sell and exchange power among themselves. This can, forexample, provide for economy energy and emergency power supplies. (Electric utility). (references) |
Transportation | Road network which allows the passage from one road to another or to several other roads or carriageways without crossing at grade. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An area and structures that are designed to provide traffic access between roadways of differing levels or grades. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
INTERCHANGE | English | European traveller information network for real-time exchange of ATT | Computing, Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: InterchangeSynonyms: give-and-take (n), reciprocation (n), alternate (v), change (v), counterchange (v), exchange (v), flip (v), flip-flop (v), switch (v), transpose (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrangement | Interchange. |
Barter | Verb: barter, exchange, swap, swop, truck, scorse; interchange; commutate;Verb: barter, exchange, swap, swop, truck, scorse; interchange; commutate;(substitute); compound for. |
Noun: barter, exchange, scorse, truck system; interchange. | |
Correlation | Verb: reciprocate, alternate; interchange; exchange; counterchange. |
Noun: reciprocalness; Adjective: reciprocity, reciprocation; mutuality, correlation, interdependence, interrelation, connection, link, association; interchange; exchange, barter. | |
Interchange | Verb: interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner,Verb: 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. |
Noun: interchange, exchange; commutation, permutation, intermutation; reciprocation, transposition, rearrangement; shuffling; alternation, reciprocity; castling; hocus-pocus. | |
Sociality | Be at home with, feel at home with, make oneself at home with; make free with; crack a bottle with; receive hospitality, live at free quarters; find the latchstring out. visit, pay a visit; interchange visits, interchange cards; call at, call upon; leave a card; drop in, look in; look one up, beat up one's quarters. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Kew Gardens interchange. I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "On Trans-Island Bus 913 II." by Slivester Chua Commentary: "This is another series shot of "On Trans-Island Bus 913". It was a new bus, with nice colors. I took advantage of the situtation and took this picture. At the point of time, the bus was leaving the Woodlands Regional Interchange and we are returning to th" | "020719_018" by | Mwolfe | Commentary: "Interchange on i-75 south in detroit." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Consumer's Information Guide | You can't fool all the people all the time -- highway interchange signs come pretty close, however. |
Francis Bacon | Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Members of the League undertake to interchange full and frank information as to the scale of their armaments, their military, naval, and air programmes and the condition of such of their industries as are adaptable to war-like purposes. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Fraternal association requires not only the growing friendship and mutual understanding between our two vast but kindred systems of society, but the continuance of the intimate relationship between our military advisers, leading to common study of potential dangers, the similarity of weapons and manuals of instructions, and to the interchange of officers and cadets at technical colleges. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | This interchange of love, I here protest, Upon my part shall be inviolable |
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Business | HL7 is a standard for health care organizations to interchange information between their computer systems. (references) | |
Use of Electronic Data Interchange systems (EDI) for daily operations is being implemented in most major ports. (references) | ||
There are several ISO overprints on smart and magnetic cards, and documents relating to Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). (references) | ||
Economic History | Switzerland | Interchange in procedures and techniques are considerable between the countries. (references) |
India | E-mail, Internet services, frame relay services, video conferencing, electronic data interchange, voice mail have been accorded value-added services status. (references) | |
Australia | Promising market entry opportunities are available in providing Internet access, electronic commerce, wireless communications, facilities management (billing services, call centers, etc.), electronic funds transfer at point-of-sale (EFTPOS), electronic data interchange, and the simple resale of capacity. (references) | |
Human Rights | Indonesia | There were no new developments during the year in the shooting deaths of at least nine demonstrators at Jakarta's Semanggi interchange in November 1998. The trial of nine low-ranking police officers implicated in the May 1998 shooting deaths of four students at Trisakti University in Jakarta began on June 18. Prosecutors charged the officers with premeditated murder, which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, and assault leading to death, which carries a maximum penalty of 7 years in prison. (references) |
Political Economy | THAILAND | Efforts to introduce a paperless customs system, including adoption of the World Customs Organization harmonized code and the use of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system, have improved operations but are still in the process of being fully implemented. (references) |
Trade | New Zealand | The nine clearing banks operate and own the country's sole check clearing system, Interchange & Settlement Ltd. (ISL). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Interchange" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.05% of the time. "Interchange" is used about 257 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.05% | 234 | 19,621 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.06% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.11% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.78% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 257 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Interchange Financial Services Corp |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "interchange": american Standard Code for Information Interchange ♦ automated data interchange system ♦ case Data Interchange Format ♦ data Interchange Standards Association ♦ electronic data interchange ♦ electronic data interchange for administration,commerce and transport ♦ electronic data interchange format ♦ electronic design interchange format ♦ electronic document interchange ♦ extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ♦ forms electronic data interchange ♦ graphic interchange format ♦ graphics Interchange Format ♦ interchange File Format ♦ interchange point ♦ interchange station ♦ Intermedia Interchange Format ♦ JPEG File Interchange Format ♦ maker Interchange Format ♦ Message Interchange for Distributed Application ♦ open Document Interchange Format ♦ passenger interchange ♦ summary Object Interchange Format ♦ time slot interchange ♦ Turnpike Interchange ♦ web electronic data interchange. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "interchange": blade-interchange. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "interchange"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | wissel (change, swap, to cash, turn), inruil (swap). (various references) | |
Albanian | zëvendësoj (act for, commute, cover, deputize, displace, double, make up for, pre empt, replace, substitute, supersede, supplant, understudy), shkëmbim (barter, conversion, exchange, swap, swop, truck), shkëmbej (bandy, barter, change, commute, exchange, melt, swap, swop), ndërkëmbej. (various references) | |
Arabic | تقاطع طرق (crossroads, intersect, intersection, level crossing), تعاقب (alternate, alternation, gradation, progression, revolve, rotate, rotation, sequence, series, succeed, succession), تبادل (alternate, bandy, change, commutation, exchange, pass, reciprocate, reciprocation, reciprocity, swap, truck), التقاء (convergence), بادل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смяна (alternation, change, exchange, relay, rotation, shift, transfer, turn, vicissitude), сменявам (remove), сменяне (relief, shift), сменям (alternate, change, change off, change round, exchange, relay, shift, spell, swap, switch over to, throw, transfer), редуване (alternation, rotation, sequence, succession, vicissitude), редувам (alternate, change off, rotate), размяна (barter, exchange, swap, swop, trade off, truck), размествам (change round, dislocate, jumble, permute, reverse, shuffle, transpose, unfix, unsettle), разменявам (bandy), обменям (barter, convert, exchange, negotiate), обмен (exchange), правя размяна. (various references) | |
Catalan | canviar (change, swap, to change, turn). (various references) | |
Chinese | 互换 (Interchanged, Interchanging). (various references) | |
Czech | vzájemná výmìna, vymìnit (change, exchange, supersede, supplant, switch round, to exchange, trade). (various references) | |
Danish | vejtilslutning (access to a bridge, approach, junction of highway and motor road), vejskaering ude af niveau (traffic interchange), vejknudepunkt (crossroads, junction, junction of highway and motor road), udveksling (exchange, gear), udskifte (swap), udfletningsanlaeg (traffic interchange), skæring ude af niveau (grade-separated interchange), ruderanlæg (diamond interchange). (various references) | |
Dutch | wisselen (change, exchange, swap, turn), ruilen (swap), inruilen (swap). (various references) | |
Esperanto | interŝanĝi (swap). (various references) | |
Farsi | متناوب ساختن , مبادله کردن (Exchange, Swap), تغییردادن (Affect, Alter, Change, Modify, Permute, Turquoise, Vary), تبادل کردن , باهم عوض کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | vuorottelu (alternating, alternation), vaihto (change, changing, exchange, replacement), vaihtaa (change, exchange, replace, swap, switch, to exchange), siirto (brought forward, carried forward, endorsement, move, removal, transfer, transplantation), rombien eritasoliittymä (diamond interchange), lähetyskerta, eritasoristeys, eritasoliittymä. (various references) | |
French | échangeur (grade-separated interchange), échanger (trade in), échange. (various references) | |
German | austausch (commutation, exchange, replacement, substitution, swapping, transposition), vertauschen (change, exchange, mix up, permute, reverse, substitute, swap, switch, switch round, transpose), tauschen (barter, betray, change, exchange, swap, switch, to exchange, to interchange, to swap, trade, turn), austauschen (exchange, permute, replace, replaced, substitute, swap, to replace, transpose). (various references) | |
Greek | ανταλλαγή (commutation, exchange, permutation, reciprocation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להחליף (alternate, change, commute, exchange, pinchhit, replace, substitute, switch, swop, trade in), החלפה (changing, commutation, exchange, mutation, substitution, switch, swop, taking over). (various references) | |
Hungarian | váltogat (alternate, to alternate, to chequer, to rotate, to vary, vary), kicserélés (exchange, renewal, replacement, transposal), kicserél (exchange, renew, to barter, to change, to commute, to exchange, to refit, to renew), közlekedési csomópont, felcserél (swap, swop, to commute, to invert, to reverse, to transpose), csere (barter, change, exchange, replacement, substitution, swap, swapping, swop). (various references) | |
Italian | scambio (exchange, points, switch, trade off, tradeoffs, truck). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 交換 (exchange), 交換 (barter, clearing, exchange, reciprocity, substitution), インスタント食品 (incense, incentive, incentive sale, incest, insecurity, inside slider, insole, inspection, inspector, inspiration, install, installation, installer, installment, instant, instant foods, instep kick, instinct, institution, instruction, instructions, instructor, instrument panel, inter high school, inter seminar, intercept, interceptor, intercollegiate, intercourse, intercut, international, International Baccalaureat, internationalism, internetwork, internetworking, interoperability, interstate highway, interval, interval training, the Internet). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | こうかん (around town, barter, bulky, clearing, corona, exchange, exchange of cordialities, exchange of courtesies, facing the winter, favourable impression, fine fellow, fraternization, future problems, future trouble, good feeling, good will, high official, mutual sympathy, official residence, on the street, publication, rapport, reciprocity, steel pipe, substitution, the public, the world, voluminous), インターチェンジ , インター (international). (various references) | |
Korean | 상호 교환. (various references) | |
Manx | maylartey (alternate, barter, bartering, commutation, commute, exchange, reciprocate, reciprocating, reciprocation, substitution, swap, transpose, transposing), eddyr-cheaghley. (various references) | |
Norwegian | utveksling (exchange), utveksle. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | interchangeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trocar (bandy, bartender, barter, change, clabber, commute, exchange, give, substitute, swap, switch, swop, to cash, to change, truck), troca (commutation, exchange, passage, permutation, reciprocation, shift, swap, swop, transposition), permutar (alternate, barter, exchange, permute, swap, swop, truck), intercâmbio (communication, dealing, exchange, give-and-take, reciprocity, trade). (various references) | |
Romanian | succesiune (consecution, inheritance, order, sequence, series, string, succession, train), schimburi reciproce (intercommunication), schimba (alter, change, chop, commute, convert into, exchange, fashion, improve, modify, renew, replace, shift, substitute, supersede, supplant, swap, transfigure, transform, transmogrify, transmute, turn, vary), alterna (alternate). (various references) | |
Russian | чередовать (interlace), взаимообмен (mutual exchange), обменивать (barter, change, swap, swoop, swop, truck), обмен (chop, exchange, metathesis, swap, swop, tradeoff, transput, truck), заменять (commute, make into, replace, shift into, substitute for, supersede, take the place of, understudy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | izmenjivati, izmena (alter, change, exchange, replacement, substitution), trampiti (barter, exchange, swap, swop, truck), trampa (barter, exchange, swap, swop, trade), razmenjivati, razmena (commutation, exchange, permutation, swap, trade). (various references) | |
Spanish | intercambio (cartel, exchange, give and take, swap, swapping, swop, trade off), cambiar (alter, back, barter, be exchanged, break, break up, change, chop, conjure, deflect, dislocate, distort, drop, exchange, shift, swap, swap around, swap over, swap round, swing, switch, swop, to exchange, transfer, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, vary, veer). (various references) | |
Swedish | utväxling (exchange, gearing), utväxla (exchange). (various references) | |
Turkish | yer değişmek, takas etmek (barter, change, commute, Dicker, exchange, swop, trade, truck), takas (barter, clearing, Dicker, exchange, swap, swop, truck), kavşak (confluence, conflux, crossroad, crossroads, intersection, junction, road junction), değiştirmek (alter, alternate, amend, change, commute, convert, disguise, diversify, doctor, exchange, falsify, garble, inflect, intersperse, juggle with, metamorphose, modify, recast, replace, revise, shed, shift, specialize, swap, switch, switch to, swop, transmute, unmake, vary), değiştirme (alteration, changing, commutation, conversion, disguise, exchange, leavening, modification, recast, reformation, re-formation, replacement, shift, switch, trans-), değişme (alteration, changing, chopping, shift, switch, transition, transmutation, turn, vicissitude), değiş tokuş etmek (bargain, barter, change, exchange, swap, swop, traffic, truck). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зalюyk (exchange). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чергуватися (alternate, interlace, rotate, take turns), чергувати (interlace, keep vigil, rotate, watch), чергування (alternate, alternation, rotation, vicissitude), обмінюватися (bandy, change, exchange, niffer, reciprocate), обміняти, обмін (exchange, metathesis, reciprocation, reciprocity, swap, swop), переставляти (invert, permute, rearrange, resettle, reshuffle), перестановка (inversion, permutation, rearrangement, reshuffle, reversion, transposal, transposition). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự trao đổi lẫn nhau (reciprocity). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | commutatio, commutatione, commutationem, commutationes, commutationibus, commutationum, mutatio, mutationes, vice, vicem, vices, vici, vicibus, vicis, vicum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "interchange": interchangeabilities, interchangeability, interchangeable, interchangeableness, interchangeablenesses, interchangeably, interchanged, interchanger, interchangers, interchanges. (additional references) | |
Words containing "interchange": noninterchangeable. (additional references) | |
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"Interchange" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Interchi, Intertanko, Interthane. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "interchange" (pronounced i'nterkhā"nj or i'nerkhā"nj) |
| 4 | -kh ā" n j | change, exchange, shortchange. |
| 3 | -ā" n j | arrange, derange, estrange, Grange, mange, prearrange, range, rearrange, strange. |
| 4 | -kh ā" n j | change, exchange, shortchange. |
| 3 | -ā" n j | arrange, derange, estrange, Grange, mange, prearrange, range, rearrange, strange. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-h-i-n-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: heartening, reenacting, reteaching. | |
-2 letters: ancienter, argentine, cantering, careening, centering, enchanter, nectarine, recanting, reheating, tangerine, trenching. | |
-3 letters: aetheric, agenetic, antigene, argentic, catering, centiare, centring, chanting, charting, cheating, cheering, creatine, creating, earthing, echinate, enacting, enhancer, entering, entrance, entrench, erecting, gentrice, gratinee, hearting, heritage, herniate, hetaeric, incenter, increate, ingather, inherent, interage, intrench, iterance, naething, narceine, ranching. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-g-h-i-n-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: interchanged, interchanger, interchanges. | |
+2 letters: interchangers. | |
+4 letters: interchangeable, interchangeably, parthenogenetic. | |
+5 letters: enteropathogenic, roentgenographic. | |
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