in•ter•change
Pronunciation: (v.in"tur-chānj'n.in'tur-chānj"), [key]
— v., n. -changed, -chang•ing,
—v.t.
- to put each in the place of the other: to interchange pieces of modular furniture.
- to cause (one thing) to change places with another; transpose.
- to give and receive (things) reciprocally; exchange: The twins interchanged clothes frequently.
- to cause to follow one another alternately; alternate: to interchange business cares with pleasures.
—v.i.
- to occur by turns or in succession; alternate.
- to change places, as two persons or things, or as one with another.
—n.
- an act or instance of interchanging; reciprocal exchange: the interchange of commodities.
- a changing of places, as between two persons or things, or of one with another.
- alternation; alternate succession.
- 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.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.