| archaic |
| 1. n. (archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the W | |
| 2. n. (paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens. | |
| 3. adj. Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated. | |
| 4. adj. (of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity. | |
| 5. adj. (archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period | |
| verbal |
| 1. adj. Of or relating to words. | |
| 2. adj. Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text. | |
| 3. adj. Consisting of words only. | |
| 4. adj. Expressly spoken rather than written; oral. | |
| a verbal contract | |
| a verbal testimony | |
| 5. adj. (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb. | |
| 6. adj. (grammar) Used to form a verb. | |
| 7. adj. Capable of speech. | |
| 8. adj. Word for word. | |
| a verbal translation | |
| 9. adj. (obsolete) Abounding with words; verbose. | |
| 10. n. (grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals. | |
| 11. v. (transitive, British, Australia) To induce into fabricating a confession. | |
| exchange |
| 1. n. An act of exchanging or trading. | |
| All in all, it was an even exchange. | |
| an exchange of cattle for grain | |
| 2. n. A place for conducting trading. | |
| The stock exchange is open for trading. | |
| 3. n. A telephone exchange. | |
| 4. n. (telephony, US) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before the introduction of area codes). | |
| The 555 exchange is reserved for use by the phone company, which is why it's often used in films. | |
| NPA-NXX-1234 is standard format, where NPA is the area code and NXX is the exchange. | |
| 5. n. A conversation. | |
| After an exchange with the manager, we were no wiser. | |
| 6. n. (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another | |
| 7. n. (usually with "the") The loss of a relatively minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook | |
| 8. n. (obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another. | |
| 9. n. (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane. | |
| 10. n. (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places. | |
| 11. v. To trade or barter. | |
| I'll gladly exchange my place for yours. | |
| 12. v. To replace with, as a substitute. | |
| I'd like to exchange this shirt for one in a larger size. | |
| Since his arrest, the mob boss has exchanged a mansion for a jail cell. | |
| conversation |
| 1. n. (obsolete) Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others. | |
| 2. n. (archaic) Behaviour, the way one conducts oneself; a person's way of life. | |
| 3. n. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) Engagement with a specific subject, idea, field of study etc.; understanding, familiarity. | |
| 5. n. Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking. | |
| I had an interesting conversation with Nicolas yesterday about how much he's getting paid. | |
| 6. n. (fencing) The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout. | |
| 7. n. (computing) The protocol-based interaction between systems processing a transaction. | |
| 8. v. (nonstandard, ambitransitive) To engage in conversation (with). | |
