ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Adv. a rebours [Fr.].
146. [Sudden or violent change.] Revolution -- N. revolution, bouleversement,
subversion, break up; destruction &c 162; sudden change, radical change, sweeping
organic change; change of state, phase change; quantum leap, quantum jump; clean
sweep, coup d'etat [Fr.], counter revolution.
jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience † ; explosion; spasm, convulsion, throe,
revulsion; storm, earthquake, cataclysm.
legerdemain &c (trick) 545.
V. revolutionize; new model, remodel, recast; strike out something new, break with the
past; change the face of, unsex.
Adj. unrecognizable; revolutionary.
147. [Change of one thing for another.] Substitution -- N. substitution, commutation;
supplanting &c v.; metaphor, metonymy &c (figure of speech) 521.
[Thing substituted] substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary expedient, replacement,
succedaneum; shift, pis aller [Fr.], stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens,
warming pan, dummy, scapegoat; double; changeling; quid pro quo, alternative.
representative &c (deputy) 759; palimpsest.
price, purchase money, consideration, equivalent.
V. substitute, put in the place of, change for; make way for, give place to; supply the
place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step
into stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to
pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute,
redeem, compound for.
Adj. substituted &c; ersatz; phony; vicarious, subdititious † .
Adv. instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room of; faute de mieux [Fr.].
148. [Double or mutual change.] Interchange -- N. interchange, exchange;
commutation, permutation, intermutation; reciprocation, transposition, rearrangement;
shuffling; alternation, reciprocity; castling (at chess); hocus-pocus.
interchangeableness † , interchangeability.
recombination; combination &c 48.
barter &c 794; tit for tat &c (retaliation) 718; cross fire, battledore and shuttlecock;
quid pro quo.
V. interchange, exchange, counterchange † ; bandy, transpose, shuffle, change bands,
swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take, return the compliment; play at puss
in the corner, play at battledore and shuttlecock; retaliate &c 718; requite.
rearrange, recombine.
Adj. interchanged &c v.; reciprocal, mutual, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent † .
combinatorial [Math.].
recombinant [Biol.].
Adv. in exchange, vice versa, mutatis mutandis [Lat.], backwards and forwards, by turns,
turn and turn about; each in his turn, everyone in his turn.
2. COMPLEX CHANGE