Word Meanings - METALEPSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis.

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• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• SUBSTITUTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to substitution; standing in the place of another; substituted. -- Sub`sti*tu"tion*al*ly, adv.
• SUBSTITUTIONARY
  Of or pertaining to substitution; substitutional.
• EXCHANGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being exchangeable. The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington.
• METATHESIS
  Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager. (more info) fr. metatithe`nai to place differently, to transpose; meta` beyond,
• SUBSTITUTION
  The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of substituting or putting one person or
• EXCHANGEABLY
  By way of exchange.
• EXCHANGEABLE
  1. Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged. The officers captured with Burgoyne were exchangeable within the powers of General Howe. Marshall. 2. Available for making exchanges; ratable. "An exchangeable value." J. S. Mill.
• EXCHANGER
  One who exchanges; one who practices exchange. Matt.
• EXCHANGE
  The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another,
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• ANTIMETATHESIS
  An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.
• TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
  A central office in which the wires of telephones may be connected to permit conversation.