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Counterchange   Listen
noun
Counterchange  n.  Exchange; reciprocation.


verb
Counterchange  v. t.  (past & past part. counterchanged; pres. part. counterchanging)  
1.
To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
2.
To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. "Witch-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright."





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"Counterchange" Quotes from Famous Books



... and heard during my stay among you has forced on me the belief that this slow change from habitual inertness to persistent activity has reached an extreme from which there must begin a counterchange—a reaction. Everywhere I have been struck with the number of faces which told in strong lines of the burdens that had to be borne. I have been struck, too, with the large proportion of gray-haired men; and inquiries have brought out the fact, that with you the hair commonly ...
— The Contemporary Review, January 1883 - Vol 43, No. 1 • Various
... be planned on the counterchange principle. This is a system of mass designing that involves the problem of making a pattern out of one shape, continually repeated, and fitting into itself in such a way as to leave no interstices. The simplest ...
— Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving • Grace Christie


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