DICTOMETER

SETTE TILBAKE (Norwegian for "exchange")

(exchange, replace, canjear)

1. Synonyms:
   • Exchange
   Definitions:
   • chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Exchange
   Definitions:
   • a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)
   Examples:
   • They had a bitter exchange
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Exchange
   • Interchange
   Definitions:
   • the act of changing one thing for another thing
   Examples:
   • Adam was promised immortality in exchange for his disobedience
   • There was an interchange of prisoners
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Exchange
   Definitions:
   • the act of giving something in return for something received
   Examples:
   • Deductible losses on sales or exchanges of property are allowable
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Central
   • Telephone exchange
   • Exchange
   Definitions:
   • a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Exchange
   Definitions:
   • a workplace for buying and selling
   • open only to members
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Rally
   • Exchange
   Definitions:
   • (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes
   Examples:
   • After a short rally Connors won the point
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Exchange
   • Interchange
   Definitions:
   • reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
   Examples:
   • He earns his living from the interchange of currency
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Substitution
   • Exchange
   • Commutation
   Definitions:
   • the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
   Examples:
   • He sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Exchange
    Definitions:
    • (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop
    Examples:
    • Black lost the exchange
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Exchange
    Definitions:
    • (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value
    Examples:
    • The endgame began after the exchange of queens
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Exchange
   • Change
   • Interchange
   Definitions:
   • give to, and receive from, one another
   Examples:
   • Would you change places with me?
   • We have been exchanging letters for a year
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Change
   • Exchange
   • Commute
   • Convert
   Definitions:
   • exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
   Examples:
   • Could you convert my dollars into pounds?
   • He changed his name
   • Convert centimeters into inches
   • Convert holdings into shares
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Switch over
   • Switch
   • Exchange
   Definitions:
   • change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Exchange
   Definitions:
   • hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent
   Examples:
   • Exchange prisoners
   • Exchange employees between branches of the company
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Substitute
   • Replace
   • Interchange
   • Exchange
   Definitions:
   • put in the place of another
   • switch seemingly equivalent items
   Examples:
   • The con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt
   • Substitute regular milk with fat-free milk
   • Synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Commute
   • Convert
   • Exchange
   Definitions:
   • exchange a penalty for a less severe one