Interchange vs Reverse - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between interchange and reverse

is that interchange is to alternate; to intermingle or vary while reverse is to change totally; to alter to the opposite.

In intransitive terms the difference between interchange and reverse

is that interchange is to swap or change places while reverse is to transpose the positions of two things.

As an adjective reverse is

opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.

As an adverb reverse is

in a reverse way or direction; upside-down.

interchange

English

Verb

(interchang)

to switch (each of two things)

to interchange places

to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange

* Shakespeare

I shall interchange / My waned state for Henry's regal crown.

to swap or change places

to alternate; to intermingle or vary

to interchange cares with pleasures

Noun

(en noun)

An act of interchanging.

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A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.

(rail transport) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.

Holborn tube station is the only interchange between the London Underground Central and Piccadilly Lines

Usage notes

Generally the rail transport sense of "interchange" applies to connections within the same station, or from two close-by stations. Sometimes, especially within the context of public transport in London, "interchange" is restricted to within-station connections only with (outerchange) used for those that involve leaving the station.

Antonyms

* (rail transport) outerchange

reverse

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.

We ate the meal in reverse order, starting with dessert and ending with the starter.

The mirror showed us a reverse view of the scene.

Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.

He selected reverse gear.

(rail transport, of points) to be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.

Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.

* Gower

He found the sea diverse / With many a windy storm reverse .

(botany) Reversed.

a reverse shell

Antonyms

* (rail transport) normal

Derived terms

* reverse discrimination

Adverb

(en adverb)

*, Bk.XVIII:

*:they three smote hym at onys with their spearys, and with fors of themselff they smote Sir Launcelottis horse revers to the erthe.

*1963 , Donal Serrell Thomas, Points of Contact :

*:The man was killed to feed his image fat / Within this pictured world that ran reverse , / Where miracles alone were ever plain.

Noun

(en noun)

The opposite of something.

We believed the Chinese weren't ready for us. In fact, the reverse was true.

The act of going backwards; a reversal.

* Lamb

By a reverse of fortune, Stephen becomes rich.

A piece of misfortune; a setback.

* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 309:

In fact, though the Russians did not yet know it, the British had met with a reverse .

The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.

The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.

The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.

A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.

(Shakespeare)

(surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.

Derived terms

* in reverse

Verb

(revers)

To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.

To turn something inside out or upside down.

* Sir W. Temple

A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill.

To transpose the positions of two things.

To change totally; to alter to the opposite.

* Shakespeare

Reverse the doom of death.

* Sir Walter Scott

She reversed the conduct of the celebrated vicar of Bray.

(obsolete) To return, come back.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.4:

Bene they all dead, and laide in dolefull herse? / Or doen they onely sleepe, and shall againe reuerse ?

(obsolete) To turn away; to cause to depart.

* Spenser

And that old dame said many an idle verse, / Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse .

(obsolete) To cause to return; to recall.

* Spenser

And to his fresh remembrance did reverse / The ugly view of his deformed crimes.

(legal) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.

to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree

(ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.

(chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.

(rail transport) To place a set of points in the reverse position

(rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position

To overthrow; to subvert.

* Alexander Pope

These can divide, and these reverse , the state.

* Rogers

Custom reverses even the distinctions of good and evil.

Derived terms

* to reverse out * bootlegger reverse * reversal noun

Antonyms

* (rail transport) normalise / normalize (transitive and intransitive)

Anagrams

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