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

See, Posthumus anchors upon Imogen, And she, like harmless lightning, throws her eye On him, her brothers, me, her master, hitting Each object with a joy; the counterchange Is severally in all.

From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William

Designs may be planned on the counterchange principle.

From Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Christie, Grace

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

From Essays by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

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

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

ARMS: per bend argent and sable, two anchors, the upper one reversed, counterchanged.

From Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman by Sieveking, Giberne

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

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

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 Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs

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

Per fesse indented quarterly or and sable, in each quarter an annulet counterchanged.

From Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 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 Buckle, Mary

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 Buckle, Mary