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
They take us into the open fields, and show us the soft counterchange of shadows and sunlight, bright spaces and pursuing swarths of shade.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
Every language, by counterchange, returns to the writer’s touch or breath his own intention, articulate: this is his note.
From Essays by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
Dissolution is the counterchange which sooner or later every evolved aggregate undergoes.
From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
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
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
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
In this same way inlay of tortoise-shell and brass was made,—the two layers were sawed out together, and then counterchanged so as to give the pattern in each material upon the other.
From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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
ARMS: per bend argent and sable, two anchors, the upper one reversed, counterchanged.
From Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman by Giberne Sieveking
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
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
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