counterchange
Americanverb (used with object)
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to cause to change places, qualities, etc.; interchange.
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to diversify; checker.
verb
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to change parts, qualities, etc
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poetic to chequer, as with contrasting colours
Etymology
Origin of counterchange
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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
Then o'er Æneas' spirit, racked with fear, Joy stole in gentle counterchange.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
The whole conversation becomes a dance of change and counterchange of place.
From The Colour of Life; and other essays on things seen and heard by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
The 13th century parti-coloured and striped dresses foreshadowed the heraldic fashion, which must be studied for its proportion and treatment of decorative colour-values in counterchange to get the true value of its noble effects.
From Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers by Talbot Hughes
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
His jerkin and hose were of motley, the left arm and right leg being blue, their opposites, orange tawny, while the nether socks and shoes were in like manner black and scarlet counterchanged.
From The Armourer's Prentices by W.J. Hennessy
ARMS: per bend argent and sable, two anchors, the upper one reversed, counterchanged.
From Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman by Giberne Sieveking
The ceiling is coffered, and the male and female patterns are counterchanged diagonally.
From Intarsia and Marquetry by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
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 arms of this family are, Per fesse nebulée azure, and argent three antelopes' heads, erased counterchanged, armed or.
From Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850 by Various
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
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