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
Designs may be planned on the counterchange principle.
From Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Grace Christie
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 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
Dissolution is the counterchange which sooner or later every evolved aggregate undergoes.
From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
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
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
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
The ceiling is coffered, and the male and female patterns are counterchanged diagonally.
From Intarsia and Marquetry by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
Per fesse indented quarterly or and sable, in each quarter an annulet counterchanged.
From Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 by Various
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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