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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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correspondence
English
Etymology
Morphologically correspond +? -ence.
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?"r?sp?n'd?ns, IPA(key): /?k????sp?nd?ns/
Noun
correspondence (countable and uncountable, plural correspondences)
- (uncountable) Friendly discussion.
- (uncountable) Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
- (countable) An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
- (uncountable) Newspaper or news stories, generally.
- (countable) A postal or other written communication.
- (uncountable) Postal or other written communications.
- (set theory, countable) A relation.
- (theology) According to Swedenborg, a relationship of similarity between physical and spiritual things, such as that of light to wisdom, or warmth to love.
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See also
- correspondent
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