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billfold
English
Etymology
bill +? fold
Noun
billfold (plural billfolds)
- A small, folding sleeve or case designed to hold paper currency, as well as credit cards, pictures, etc.
- Bill had so many pictures of his family stuffed into his billfold that it barely fit into his pocket.
Synonyms
- (folding case for holding currency) pocketbook, wallet
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exchange
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ks?t?e?nd?/
- Rhymes: -e?nd?
Etymology 1
From Middle English eschaunge, borrowed from Anglo-Norman eschaunge, from Old French eschange (whence modern French échange), from the verb eschanger, from Vulgar Latin *excambi?re, present active infinitive of *excambi? (from Latin ex with Late Latin cambi?). Spelling later changed on the basis of ex- in English.
Noun
exchange (countable and uncountable, plural exchanges)
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- A place for conducting trading.
- A telephone exchange.
- (telephony, US) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before the introduction of area codes).
- A conversation.
- (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another
- (usually with "the") The loss of a relatively minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook
- (obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.
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Etymology 2
From Middle English eschaungen, from Anglo-Norman eschaungier, Old French eschanger, from the Old French verb eschangier, eschanger (whence modern French échanger), from Vulgar Latin *excambi?re, present active infinitive of *excambi? (from Latin ex with Late Latin cambi?). Gradually displaced native Old English wrixlan, wixlan (“to change, exchange, reciprocate”) and its descendants, wrixle being one of them.
Verb
exchange (third-person singular simple present exchanges, present participle exchanging, simple past and past participle exchanged)
- (transitive) To trade or barter.
- I'll gladly exchange my place for yours.
- (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.
- I'd like to exchange this shirt for one in a larger size.
- Since his arrest, the mob boss has exchanged a mansion for a jail cell.
Synonyms
- (trade or barter): truck, wrixle; See also Thesaurus:trade or Thesaurus:barter
- (replace with a substitute): interchange, swap; See also Thesaurus:switch
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Further reading
- exchange in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- exchange in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- exchange at OneLook Dictionary Search
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