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動詞

counterchange (三人称単数 現在形 counterchanges, 現在分詞 counterchanging, 過去形および過去分詞形 counterchanged)

1. To give and receive; C; to exchange.
2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.
   • 1849, Tennyson, Alfred, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 89, lines 1781–1782:

     Witch-elms that counterchange the floor / Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.

同意語

• (to cause to change places): interchange, swap; See also Thesaurus:switch
• (to checker): checker, freck (まれに, poetic)

名詞

counterchange (複数形 counterchanges)

1. (obsolete) An exchange of one thing for another.
2. (obsolete) Due return (for an action etc.); reciprocation.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:

     But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse [...].

参照

• counterchange in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• counterchange in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913