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
Example Sentences
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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 Taylor, Edward Fairfax
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
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 Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
Greek art and Gothic alike have series, with repetition or counterchange for their ruling motive.
From Essays by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
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