interchange
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From Old French entrechange, by surface analysis, inter- + change.
Inflected forms:
form: interchanges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interchanging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interchanged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interchanged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: interchanges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: to switch (each of two things)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to interchange places
gloss: to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I shall interchange / My waned state for Henry's regal crown.
gloss: to swap or change places
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The poem is written in an alef-lamed, bet-nun acrostic form. This is a formula of permutation of letters wherein the first interchanges with the twelfth, the second with the thirteenth, etc.
gloss: to alternate; to intermingle or vary
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to interchange cares with pleasures
gloss: To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
pos: verb
examples: But those 13 miles go through central London, and where the Underground interchanges with Crossrail, its own stations will be boosted and glamorised, especially at Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road.
The expectation is that about one-third of passengers will choose to interchange at Old Oak, while two-thirds will prefer to travel on to Euston.
gloss: An act of interchanging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That was one of three superb saves Hennessey made in the opening 45 minutes, the best of which was from Dzeko, who had been released by a slick interchange involving Silva and Sergio Aguero.
gloss: A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Holborn tube station is the only interchange between the London Underground Central and Piccadilly Lines.
Moving on again, I catch another GWR Class 802 bound for Oxford via the Cotswold Line. Our first stop is at one of the newest stations on the network - Worcestershire Parkway, which opened on February 23. It's a four-platform (actually three-platform) split-level interchange with the line from Birmingham to Bristol.
gloss: A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: David and I were not "intimate" friends. There was always a certain old-worldly formality about our interchanges. There was something professorial and distant about David, something that commanded respect, partially, I think, because he was so respectful himself.
Synonyms: swap
trade
mix
Antonyms: outerchange
Derived words: preinterchange
cloverleaf interchange
electronic data interchange
partial cloverleaf interchange
single-point urban interchange
system interchange
transport interchange
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