Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause to change places; transpose.
- transitive verb To make checkered; variegate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give and receive in exchange; cause to change places; cause to change from one state to its opposite; cause to make alternate changes; alternate.
- noun Interchange; reciprocation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
- transitive verb To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See
Counterchaged , a., 2. - noun Exchange; reciprocation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
give andreceive ; to cause to change places; toexchange . - verb To
checker ; todiversify , as in heraldic counterchanging. - noun obsolete An
exchange of one thing for another. - noun obsolete Due
return (for an action etc.);reciprocation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to change places
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Examples
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Using samples from his illustrious career, he takes the reader through his thought process and explains principles both basic (setting up an efficient studio, thumbnail sketches) and advanced (shapewelding, counterchange, flagging the head).
Imaginative Realism Reviews James Gurney 2009
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If you're angry and resentful, requests for change will be met with resistance and counterchange efforts: "It's not my problem; it's your problem."
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So it went, change and counterchange, and the assortment of animals was depleted on both sides.
Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990
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So it went, change and counterchange, and the assortment of animals was depleted on both sides.
Phaze Doubt Anthony, Piers 1990
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Designs may be planned on the counterchange principle.
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie
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The pattern, it will be noticed, is planned on the counterchange principle, which is particularly well suited for this method of work.
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie
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Now the heavy hand of war dealt equal woe and counterchange of death; in even balance conquerors and conquered slew and fell; nor one nor other knows of retreat.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Fig. 20 is an example of a counterchange design carried out in inlay; for this method of work counterchange is very suitable.
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Grace Christie
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[827-860] At this lord Aeneas 'soul is thrilled with soft counterchange of delight.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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What I have seen 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.
whichbe commented on the word counterchange
Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order. This figure is sometimes known as chiasmus or antimetabole.
Examples: "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." —John F. Kennedy
"You can take the gorilla out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the gorilla."
(Silva Rhetoricae)
May 17, 2008