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say it: in-tur-CHAYNJ
interchange is a noun and verb meaning "a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams". It is pronounced /ˌɪntɚˈtʃeɪndʒ/ — in-tur-CHAYNJ. It carries 8 recorded senses.
a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
the act of changing one thing for another thing
“Adam was promised immortality in exchange for his disobedience”
“there was an interchange of prisoners”
reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
“he earns his living from the interchange of currency”
put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
“the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt”
“substitute regular milk for fat-free milk”
“synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning”
cause to change places
“interchange this screw for one of a smaller size”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for interchange come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.