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
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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
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
When tempered with flint or quartz sand to a uniform degree, they offer a splendid opportunity for counterchange pattern.
From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by George J. Cox
Repetition and counterchange, of course, have their place in Japanese ornament, as in the diaper patterns for which these people have so singular an invention, but here, too, uniqueness and position are the principal inspiration.
From Essays by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
Designs may be planned on the counterchange principle.
From Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Grace Christie
Per fesse indented quarterly or and sable, in each quarter an annulet counterchanged.
From Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 by Various
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
Per pale sable and or, a cheveron between three escallop shells, all counterchanged.
From Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
The door and wall panels have elaborate architectural forms in relief with base, frieze, and pilasters; and are also fully inlaid with arabesques, counterchanged bay by bay.
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
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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