(n.) The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.
(n.) The act of substituting one thing in the place of another; as, an exchange of grief for joy, or of a scepter for a sword, and the like; also, the act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as, an exchange of civilities or views.
(n.) The thing given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another.
(n.) 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, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange.
(n.) A mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple.
(n.) The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change.
(n.) To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent; -- usually followed by for before the thing received.
(n.) To part with for a substitute; to lay aside, quit, or resign (something being received in place of the thing parted with); as, to exchange a palace for cell.
(n.) To give and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats.
(v. i.) To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.
Example Sentences:
(1) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
(2) Alleles in this region can be exchanged between X and Y chromosomes and are therefore inherited as if autosomal.
(3) He said: "Monetary policy affects the exchange rate – which in turn can offset or reinforce our exposure to rising import prices.
(4) Electron self-exchange has been measured by an NMR technique for horse-heart myoglobin.
(5) The influence of blood and blood-product therapy was studied in two groups of children: 1) 90 children who had exchange transfusion after birth because of serologic incompatibility (aged 5 months to 5 years).
(6) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(7) Resorption of calcium and depositon of inorganic phosphates in the implanted ceramics suggested that ions were being exchanged with the body fluids.
(8) We propose that, for a GC base pair in B conformation, there are two amino proton exchangeable states--a cytosine amino proton exchangeable state and a guanine amino proton exchangeable state; both require the disruption of only the corresponding interbase H bond.
(9) Several aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are herein shown to catalyze the AMP----ADP and ADP----ATP exchange reactions (in the absence of tRNAs) by utilizing a transfer of the gamma-phosphate of ATP to reactive AMP and ADP intermediates that are probably the mixed anhydrides of the nucleotide and the corresponding amino acid.
(10) To gain more information about sources of activator Ca2+ involved in the contraction of rat and guinea-pig aorta evoked by angiotensin II and their sensitivity to Ca2+ entry blockers, measurement of slowly exchanging 45Ca2+ was established.
(11) Deuterium-labeled aspirin (2-acetoxy[3,4,5,6-2H4]benzoic acid) was synthesized from salicylic acid by catalytic exchange and subsequent acetylation.
(12) Pulmonary gas exchange and hemodynamics were compared on the day of transplantation (day 0) and 3 days later (day 3).
(13) Acute isovolemic anemia was produced in anesthetized chickens by serial exchanges of 6% dextran 70 equal to 1% of body weight to quantitate cardiovascular and metabolic parameters.
(14) By contrast, there was a rapid exchange of tracer Leu carbon between placenta and fetus resulting in a significant flux of labeled KIC from placenta to fetus.
(15) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.
(16) Bio-Rex 70, a carboxylic acid cation exchanger, is studied as a biological ion-exchanger resin model for cellular cytoplasm.
(17) Three triacetinases (A, B and C) were shown to undergo reciprocal conversions under storage and during some purification procedures (effect of pH, ionic strength, ion-exchange chromatography, concentration, lyophilization, etc.).
(18) Under normal conditions (venous PO2 greater than or equal to 40 mm Hg), oxygen delivery to the muscle was maintained mainly by large increases in the capillary exchange capacity and the oxygen extraction ratio in accord with tissue demand following the application of the above stresses.
(19) By allelic exchange using cloned PI genes from FA19 (PIA) and MS11 (PIB) and a selectable marker introduced closely downstream of these genes, we constructed sets of isogenic gonococcal strains that differ only in their PI gene.
(20) The unidirectional Cl- fluxes may have significant contributions from both the transcellular and paracellular pathways, with the direction of departure from predicted values being consistent with the presence of Cl- exchange diffusion.
Traffic
Definition:
(v. i.) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
(v. i.) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
(v. t.) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
(v.) Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
(v.) Commodities of the market.
(v.) The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.
Example Sentences:
(1) Road traffic accidents (RTAs) comprised 40% and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 13% of the total.
(2) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(3) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(4) Measurement of traffic through late endosomes, which are closely related to the organelle in which antigen processing occurs, has, to date, required large numbers of cells and therefore has not been possible for dendritic cells.
(5) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.
(6) A traumatic factor in the aetiology of the AVM was also discussed, since the patient had had two preceding episodes of traffic accidents with cranial and lumbar injury.
(7) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(8) 75% of Bundles site traffic is coming from returning users."
(9) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
(10) However, most deaths were due to traffic accidents.
(11) With an ambulance service staffed by doctors from the anaesthetic and intensive care units of the central hospitals it is possible to provide prehospital treatment in 70% of all severe traffic injuries in the County of Ringkøbing.
(12) They didn’t know the dangers that they were putting myself, themselves and passing air traffic in.
(13) In Experiment 1 subjects viewed a slide sequence depicting a traffic accident.
(14) Two hundred and forty-four motor car occupants involved in road traffic accidents, who sustained injuries sufficiently severe to require admission to hospital, have been investigated in order to assess the value of seat belts.
(15) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
(16) The plane lost contact with air traffic control eight minutes after it left the western town of Pokhara on its way to Jomsom on Wednesday morning.
(17) To examine the molecular traffic and sites of metabolism of PAF released in the vascular wall, we used a coculture system in which endothelial cells are grown on micropore filters suspended over confluent cultures of vascular smooth muscle cells.
(18) Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly who has campaigned to make cycling safer, said she had spoken to the deputy head of the Met's traffic unit to express her worries about the operation.
(19) Analysis of time-dependent development of various events in man's life (diseases, traumas traffic accidents, normal delivery, death because of diseases) and physiological processes allowed to reveal the presence of intradian cycle in their dynamics with the period about 4-6 hs.
(20) In five of the six cases a violent contusion in the trochanter region was involved as a result of a fall on a hard surface or a traffic accident.