Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being interchanged.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being interchanged; admitting of exchange.
- Appearing in alternate succession.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Admitting of exchange or mutual substitution.
- adjective Following each other in alternate succession.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Freely
substitutable . May be swapped at will.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (mathematics, logic) such that the arguments or roles can be interchanged
- adjective capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability
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Examples
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That was where she went for her "pretty young boys," the term interchangeable with "talent."
Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin Friedman, Myra 1973
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Only if you think that “regulate” is a term interchangeable with “to take over completely”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Is the Personal Mandate to Buy Health Insurance Unconstitutional?” 2009
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Is it flixter or flixster or is the name interchangeable?
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Whether called "comic books" or "graphic novels" -- some consider the terms interchangeable, others see differences in form and scope -- these works emphasize powerful storytelling, on subjects as broad as those found in any other published works, from autobiography to fantasy to war reportage to humor.
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Sea and sun and civilisation became terms interchangeable with life, his life, and they were loaded there on the sled for which he waited.
The Turtles of Tasman Jack London 1896
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You are not using the word interchangeable correctly, he never used both of them, he merely used one consistently.
Newsvine - Get Smarter Here AP National Political Writer 2010
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The semantic equivalence of being, will, and power-each term interchangeable with the other two-is indicative of Schmitt's ultimate innovation in political philosophy, his discovery of the field of onto-existential politics.
TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog Michael Marder <telosscope@telospress.com> 2010
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Most methods and materials used by the French armed forces are "interchangeable" - that's to say they conform to Nato norms - along with the English spoken.
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Most methods and materials used by the French armed forces are "interchangeable" - that's to say they conform to Nato norms - along with the English spoken.
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Shops and hotels have a lot of visible security: mustachioed men in interchangeable police-like khaki uniforms, their cloth-patch badges with a standard-issue space for the firm’s name above the word ‘security’.
Bombs, slums, and brightly-coloured balloons « Squares of Wheat 2009
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