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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weapon fire |
| Synonyms: | battery, blast, bombardment, broadside, cannonade, crossfire, curtain of fire, discharge, enfilade, fire, fusillade, gunfire, hail, salvo, shelling, shower, storm, volley |
| Main Entry: | interchange |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | switch, exchange |
| Synonyms: | altering, alternation, barter, change, crossfire, give-and-take, intersection, junction, mesh, networking, reciprocation, shift, trade, transposition, variation, varying |
| Main Entry: | volley |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | barrage |
| Synonyms: | battery, bombardment, burst, cannonade, crossfire, enfilade, firing, fussilade, gunfire, hail, round, salvo, shelling, shower, storm |
| Concept: | [Double or mutual change] Interchange. |
| Category: | 1. SIMPLE CHANGE |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
interchange, exchange; commutation, permutation, intermutation; reciprocation, transposition, shuffling; alternation, reciprocity; castling [at chess]; hocus-pocus., interchangeableness, interchangeability., barter; tit for tat (retaliation); cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock; quid pro quo.
-verbs
interchange, exchange, counterchange; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate; requite.
-adjectives
interchanged; reciprocal, mutual, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent., substituted; vicarious, subdititious.
-adverbs
in exchange, vice versa, mutatis mutandis, backwards and forwards, by turns, turn and turn about; each in his turn, everyone in his turn., instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of; faute de mieux.
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