counterchange

American  

[koun-ter-cheynj] / ˌkaʊn tərˈtʃeɪndʒ /

verb (used with object)

counterchanged, counterchanging

1. to cause to change places, qualities, etc.; interchange.

2. to diversify; checker.

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counterchange British  

/ ˌkaʊntəˈtʃeɪndʒ /

verb

1. to change parts, qualities, etc

2. poetic to chequer, as with contrasting colours

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Etymology

Origin of counterchange

First recorded in 1885–90; counter- + change

Example Sentences

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counterchange counterchanged counterchanging

Net result: a cat-and-mouse game of code change and counterchange that could prevent the adoption of standards and stunt this medium for years to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

Greek art and Gothic alike have series, with repetition or counterchange for their ruling motive. 

From Essays by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell

Upon his head The cloudy cap, wherewith he hath in dower The cloud's own virtue—change and counterchange, To show in light, and to withdraw in pall, As mortal eyes best bear.

From New Poems by Francis Thompson

Designs may be planned on the counterchange principle.

From Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Grace Christie

Dissolution is the counterchange which sooner or later every evolved aggregate undergoes.

From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson

His fancy is counterchanged between jest and earnest, and the earnest lies always in the jest, and the jest in the earnest.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

The front of the battle was now exactly counterchanged; and each army occupied the ground which had been possessed by the enemy at the beginning of the day.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume

Why doesn't a man who bears party per bend gules and or, a bezant and crab counterchanged," cried Rastignac, "display that ancient escutcheon of Picardy on the panels of a carriage?

From Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac

I could play quadrilles and country dances, and now and then a reel - nobody thought of waltzes - and the three couples changed and counterchanged partners. 

From Chantry House by Charlotte Mary Yonge

The ceiling is coffered, and the male and female patterns are counterchanged diagonally.

From Intarsia and Marquetry by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

And from the mere fact of the counterchanging you gather that it is inlaid, and not onlaid.

From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Mary Buckle

In India they still inlay in cloth most marvellously, not only counterchanging the pattern, but inlaying the inlays with smaller patternwork, thus combining great simplicity of effect with wonderful minuteness of detail.

From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Mary Buckle