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
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
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 William Shakespeare
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
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
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
The ceiling is coffered, and the male and female patterns are counterchanged diagonally.
From Intarsia and Marquetry by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
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
The front of the battle was now exactly counterchanged; and each army occupied the ground which had been possessed by the enemy at the beginning of the day.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume
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 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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