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
Greek art and Gothic alike have series, with repetition or counterchange for their ruling motive.
From Essays by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
Every language, by counterchange, returns to the writer’s touch or breath his own intention, articulate: this is his note.
From Essays by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
Designs may be planned on the counterchange principle.
From Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Christie, Grace
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
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 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
Why doesn't a man who bears party per bend gules and or, a bezant and crab counterchanged," cried Rastignac, "display that ancient escutcheon of Picardy on the panels of a carriage?
From Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Balzac, Honoré de
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 Hennessy, W.J.
The ceiling is coffered, and the male and female patterns are counterchanged diagonally.
From Intarsia and Marquetry by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
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
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