Word of the Day - interchange

interchange

/ɪntəˈtʃeɪn(d)ʒ/
verb
[with object]
1 (of two or more people) exchange (things) with each other.
1.1 Put each of (two things) in the other's place.
1.2 no object (of a thing) be able to be exchanged with another.
noun
1 mass noun The action of interchanging people or things.
count noun ‘we have a significant interchange of staff with the nearby college’
1.1 count noun An exchange of words.
2 mass noun Alternation.
3 A road junction designed on several levels so that traffic streams do not intersect.
4 A station where passengers may change from one railway line, bus service, etc. to another.

Origin
Late Middle English from Old French entrechangier, from entre- ‘between’ + changier ‘to change’.

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Carl and Carol had a relatively civil interchange
After their cars collided at the roadways' interchange.
Insurance papers, they did exchange.
Their days they had to rearrange;
Taking train and bus sure did seem strange.