Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- n. Interchange; reciprocation.
Wiktionary
- v. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
- v. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.
- n. obsolete An exchange of one thing for another.
- n. obsolete Due return (for an action etc.); reciprocation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
- v. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2.
- n. Exchange; reciprocation.
WordNet 3.0
- v. cause to change places
Etymologies
- From Middle French contrechange (noun), contrechanger (verb). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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).”
“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.”
“So it went, change and counterchange, and the assortment of animals was depleted on both sides.”
“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.”
“[827-860] At this lord Aeneas 'soul is thrilled with soft counterchange of delight.”
“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.”
“Designs may be planned on the counterchange principle.”
“The pattern, it will be noticed, is planned on the counterchange principle, which is particularly well suited for this method of work.”
“Fig. 20 is an example of a counterchange design carried out in inlay; for this method of work counterchange is very suitable.”
“We waited, ant through the constant change and counterchange of plans it was noon before we finally left Arras for Amiens.”
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Rhetorical Devices
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List of Heraldry Terms
Words and phrases used in blazoning heraldic devices, along with names and other terms associated with the art and science.
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Metaflip
Blasted binaries, background pattern inversions, and subtlety awareness.
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whichbe 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 16, 2008