interchange

present singular third person interchanges · participle present interchanging · participle past interchanged · past interchanged

1. transitiveto switch (each of two things)

   to interchange places

   Synonyms: exchange

2. transitiveto mutually give and receive (something); to exchange

   I shall interchange / My waned state for Henry's regal crown.

   c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]

   Synonyms: exchange

3. intransitiveto swap or change places

   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.

   1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 260

4. transitiveto alternate; to intermingle or vary

   to interchange cares with pleasures

5. transportTo act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).

   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.

   2020 March 25, William Barter, “HS2: Euston or Old Oak Common?”, in Rail, page 59

   1 more example

   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.

   2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 274

plural interchanges

1. countableuncountableAn act of interchanging.

   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.

   2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport

2. countableA highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
3. countableA 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.
4. countablerail transportA connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.

   Holborn tube station is the only interchange between the London Underground Central and Piccadilly Lines.

   1 more example

   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.

   2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67

5. countableuncountableA back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.

   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.

   1984 December 15, Nancy Walker, “Remembering David Stryker”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 5