EXCHANGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exchanged mean? 

• EXCHANGED (adjective)
  The adjective EXCHANGED has 1 sense:

1. changed for (replaced by) something different

  Familiarity information: EXCHANGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCHANGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Changed for (replaced by) something different

Similar:

changed (made or become different in nature or form)

 Context examples 

It would be a burning shame upon you, even now, if she and I exchanged a word.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

François, guiding the sled at the gee-pole, sometimes exchanged places with him, but not often.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

For eIF-2 to promote another round of initiation, GDP must be exchanged for GTP, a reaction catalyzed by eIF-2B.

(eIF2 Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Then, a UDP nucleotide group is exchanged between galactose 1-phosphate and UDP-glucose.

(Feeder Pathways for Glycolysis, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A hexose which is almost identical to glucose except that orientation of -H and -OH on carbon 4 are exchanged, making it an epimer at C-4 of glucose (in Fisher projection).

(Galactose, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Upon oral administration, the carbonate ions in fermagate are exchanged for free phosphate ions released from food in the gastrointestinal tract; thereby, strongly binding phosphate.

(Fermagate, NCI Thesaurus)

The technique whereby chromosomes are exchanged among cells.

(Chromosome Transfer, NCI Thesaurus)

The cook, however, had pity on him, and exchanged him for the gardener’s boy.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The two statesmen exchanged a quick glance and the Premier’s shaggy eyebrows gathered in a frown.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We hardly exchanged a word during breakfast, and immediately afterwards I went out for a walk, that I might think the matter out in the fresh morning air.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)