Interchangeable
adjective
Can be used in place of each other.
These two components of the machine are interchangeable, you can use either.
Often appears as...
- interchangeable parts
- interchangeable roles
adjective
Can be used in place of each other.
These two components of the machine are interchangeable, you can use either.
Often appears as...
- interchangeable parts
- interchangeable roles
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Pro Tip 1/3Context Sensitive
Some interchangeable items may be context-specific; suitable in one situation but not another.
Screws of the same size are interchangeable, but not necessarily in precision machinery.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-universal
Not everything similar is interchangeable. Some items or concepts may look similar but have unique characteristics.
Nickels and quarters are similar coins, but not interchangeable when paying for an item.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Physical
Interchangeable also applies to ideas, like words or roles, that can be switched without changing the overall meaning.
The words 'happy' and 'joyful' are often interchangeable in a sentence.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Sensitive
Some interchangeable items may be context-specific; suitable in one situation but not another.
Screws of the same size are interchangeable, but not necessarily in precision machinery.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-universal
Not everything similar is interchangeable. Some items or concepts may look similar but have unique characteristics.
Nickels and quarters are similar coins, but not interchangeable when paying for an item.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Physical
Interchangeable also applies to ideas, like words or roles, that can be switched without changing the overall meaning.
The words 'happy' and 'joyful' are often interchangeable in a sentence.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Sensitive
Some interchangeable items may be context-specific; suitable in one situation but not another.
Screws of the same size are interchangeable, but not necessarily in precision machinery.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-universal
Not everything similar is interchangeable. Some items or concepts may look similar but have unique characteristics.
Nickels and quarters are similar coins, but not interchangeable when paying for an item.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Physical
Interchangeable also applies to ideas, like words or roles, that can be switched without changing the overall meaning.
The words 'happy' and 'joyful' are often interchangeable in a sentence.
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What is the world wide...
or starting revolutions. We use it from our computers, our phones, even our cars. It's just there, all around us, all the time. But what is it exactly? Well first of all, the World Wide Web is not the Internet, even though the terms are often used interchangeably. The Internet is simply the way computers connect to each other
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Saul Griffith: Hardware...
and we've seen all these problems in the last few days, most of the big issues -- clean water, clean energy -- and they're interchangeable in some respects -- and cleaner, more functional materials -- they all look to me to be hardware problems. This doesn't mean we should ignore software, or information, or computation."
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Chris Bangle: Great cars...
is very applicable. You all know it. You know a car when you've seen it, with soul. You know how strong this is. Well, this experience of love, and the experience of design, to me, are interchangeable. And now I'm coming to my story. I discovered something about love and design through a project called Deep Blue.
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Rethinking manufacturing...
wanted to keep it tight you wanted to keep it really secret it didn't want people to know how you made those textiles as you begin to move technology forward then you organize people in these long lines and they become interchangeable and instead of people really mattering it's engineering
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What’s the best fuel for...
a fossil fuel extracted from deep underground. The energy in gasoline comes from a class of molecules called hydrocarbons. There are hundreds of different hydrocarbons in crude oil, and different ones are used to make gasoline and diesel— which is why you can't use them interchangeably.
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Where joy hides and how...
more or less interchangeably. But broadly speaking, when psychologists use the word joy, what they mean is an intense, momentary experience of positive emotion -- one that makes us smile and laugh and feel like we want to jump up and down. And this is actually a technical thing.
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COVID-19, Humans, and...
they are very interchangeable like that if they come from this one and the other that is as much as to say that given that wish 99 percent of our genome with chimpanzees then we come from chimpanzee survey come from us and that is not the case at all what is the truth is that
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Leslie T. Chang: The...
its low costs, its large and educated workforce, and a flexible manufacturing system that responds quickly to market demands. By focusing so much on ourselves and our gadgets, we have rendered the individuals on the other end into invisibility, as tiny and interchangeable
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Juan Enriquez: Using...
beginning to program stuff for specific purposes. Think of the cell as a hardware. Think of the genes as a software. And in the measure that you begin to think of life as code that is interchangeable, that can become energy, that can
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When to use "me",...
Me, myself, and I. You may be tempted to use these words interchangeably because they all refer to the same thing, but in fact, each one has a specific role in a sentence.
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What is the world wide...
or starting revolutions. We use it from our computers, our phones, even our cars. It's just there, all around us, all the time. But what is it exactly? Well first of all, the World Wide Web is not the Internet, even though the terms are often used interchangeably. The Internet is simply the way computers connect to each other
Video examples
Saul Griffith: Hardware...
and we've seen all these problems in the last few days, most of the big issues -- clean water, clean energy -- and they're interchangeable in some respects -- and cleaner, more functional materials -- they all look to me to be hardware problems. This doesn't mean we should ignore software, or information, or computation."
Video examples
Chris Bangle: Great cars...
is very applicable. You all know it. You know a car when you've seen it, with soul. You know how strong this is. Well, this experience of love, and the experience of design, to me, are interchangeable. And now I'm coming to my story. I discovered something about love and design through a project called Deep Blue.
Video examples
Rethinking manufacturing...
wanted to keep it tight you wanted to keep it really secret it didn't want people to know how you made those textiles as you begin to move technology forward then you organize people in these long lines and they become interchangeable and instead of people really mattering it's engineering
Video examples
What’s the best fuel for...
a fossil fuel extracted from deep underground. The energy in gasoline comes from a class of molecules called hydrocarbons. There are hundreds of different hydrocarbons in crude oil, and different ones are used to make gasoline and diesel— which is why you can't use them interchangeably.
Video examples
Where joy hides and how...
more or less interchangeably. But broadly speaking, when psychologists use the word joy, what they mean is an intense, momentary experience of positive emotion -- one that makes us smile and laugh and feel like we want to jump up and down. And this is actually a technical thing.
Video examples
COVID-19, Humans, and...
they are very interchangeable like that if they come from this one and the other that is as much as to say that given that wish 99 percent of our genome with chimpanzees then we come from chimpanzee survey come from us and that is not the case at all what is the truth is that
Video examples
Leslie T. Chang: The...
its low costs, its large and educated workforce, and a flexible manufacturing system that responds quickly to market demands. By focusing so much on ourselves and our gadgets, we have rendered the individuals on the other end into invisibility, as tiny and interchangeable
Video examples
Juan Enriquez: Using...
beginning to program stuff for specific purposes. Think of the cell as a hardware. Think of the genes as a software. And in the measure that you begin to think of life as code that is interchangeable, that can become energy, that can
Video examples
When to use "me",...
Me, myself, and I. You may be tempted to use these words interchangeably because they all refer to the same thing, but in fact, each one has a specific role in a sentence.
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Yanis Varoufakis
Greek Politician
Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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George Perez
American Writer
I grew up on comics in the 1960s era, when 'Wonder Woman' was rather silly. She was an interchangeable female character plagued by bad stereotypes. She cried at the drop of a hat, she was worried about how she looked, all of that.
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Heather Mac Donald
American Editor
A proper respect for female difference is one of the great civilizing disciplines; a society that truly treated males and females as equal, interchangeable parts would be not worth living in.
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Jean Giraudoux
French Dramatist
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
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Neill Blomkamp
South African Director
A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.
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Daley Thompson
English Athlete
There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.
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Paul Allen
American Businessman
One of the things I've come to appreciate about the brain is the importance of location. It's not just a set of interchangeable parts that you can swap in and out.
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Princess Nokia
American Musician
Men should understand that women are creatures of nature, and that they are to be respected as nature, and that they are interchangeable and complex like nature.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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David Hare
English Playwright
In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.
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Yanis Varoufakis
Greek Politician
Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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George Perez
American Writer
I grew up on comics in the 1960s era, when 'Wonder Woman' was rather silly. She was an interchangeable female character plagued by bad stereotypes. She cried at the drop of a hat, she was worried about how she looked, all of that.
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Heather Mac Donald
American Editor
A proper respect for female difference is one of the great civilizing disciplines; a society that truly treated males and females as equal, interchangeable parts would be not worth living in.
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Jean Giraudoux
French Dramatist
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
Quote examples
Neill Blomkamp
South African Director
A lot of parts of L.A. are interchangeable with suburbs in Joburg. Very big, ostentatious houses with palm trees and lawns. Lawns are very important. Never underestimate lawns.
Quote examples
Daley Thompson
English Athlete
There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.
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Paul Allen
American Businessman
One of the things I've come to appreciate about the brain is the importance of location. It's not just a set of interchangeable parts that you can swap in and out.
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Princess Nokia
American Musician
Men should understand that women are creatures of nature, and that they are to be respected as nature, and that they are interchangeable and complex like nature.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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David Hare
English Playwright
In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.
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