Capable of being interchanged; admitting of exchange. So many testimonies, interchangeable warrants, and counterrolments, running through the hands and resting in the power of so many several persons, is sufficient to argue and convince all manner of falsehood. Bacon, Office of Alienations.
Appearing in alternate succession. Darkness and light hold interchangeable dominions. Sir T. Browne, Garden of Cyrus.
While they are to a certain extent interchangeable, the word âdiscoveryâ in science is usually applied to the first enunciation of some property of nature till then unrecognized; âinvention,â on the other hand, is the application of this property to the uses of mankind.
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Letters and Journals 02]
Even from that first line - that incredibly brave first line meant to show where the Gulf met the sky - she had understood that seeing and memory were interchangeable, and had set out to mend herself.
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Duma Key
That was where she went for her "pretty young boys," the term interchangeable with "talent."
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Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin
Xar looked at Marit, who confirmed this fact with a nod.
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Into the Labyrinth
The notes were interchangeable, and they always went something like: "Dear Mr. Crosby, please forgive me for writing you this note but you are the only person who can help us.
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Stand And Be Counted