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What (who) is Alternate - definition
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Alternativism; Alternate; The Alternative; Alternative (disambiguation); The Alternative (disambiguation)
alternate
(alternated)
1.
When you alternate two things, you keep using one then the other. When one thing alternates with another, the first regularly occurs after the other.
Her aggressive moods alternated with gentle or more co-operative states...
The three acts will alternate as headliners throughout the tour...
Now you just alternate layers of that mixture and eggplant...
The band alternated romantic love songs with bouncy dance numbers.
V-RECIP: V between/with n, pl-n V, V pl-n, V n with n
• alternation (alternations)
The alternation of sun and snow continued for the rest of our holiday.
N-VAR
2.
Alternate actions, events, or processes regularly occur after each other.
They were streaked with alternate bands of colour.
ADJ: ADJ n
• alternately
He could alternately bully and charm people...
ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj
3.
If something happens on alternate days, it happens on one day, then happens on every second day after that. In the same way, something can happen in alternate weeks, years, or other periods of time.
Lesley had agreed to Jim going skiing in alternate years.
ADJ: ADJ n
4.
You use alternate to describe a plan, idea, or system which is different from the one already in operation and can be used instead of it.
His group was forced to turn back and take an alternate route.
= alternative
ADJ: ADJ n
5.
An alternate is a person or thing that replaces another, and can act or be used instead of them. (AM)
In most jurisdictions, twelve jurors and two alternates are chosen...
= substitute
N-COUNT
6.
Alternate is sometimes used, especially in American English, instead of alternative
in meanings 3, 4, and 5.
in meanings 3, 4, and 5.
...an alternate lifestyle.
ADJ: ADJ n
Alternate
·noun That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
II. Alternate ·noun A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
III. Alternate ·vi To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
IV. Alternate ·vt To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
V. Alternate ·noun A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
VI. Alternate ·adj Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.
VII. Alternate ·adj Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.
VIII. Alternate ·vi To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time;
- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
IX. Alternate ·adj Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, ·etc. ; read every alternate line.
alternate
¦ verb '?:lt?ne?t, '?l- occur or do in turn repeatedly.
?change repeatedly between two contrasting conditions.
¦ adjective ?:l't?:n?t, ?l-
1. every other.
(of two things) each following and succeeded by the other in a regular pattern.
Botany (of leaves or shoots) placed alternately on the two sides of the stem.
2. chiefly N. Amer. another term for alternative.
¦ noun ?:l't?:n?t, ?l- N. Amer. a deputy or substitute.
Derivatives
alternately adverb
alternation noun
Origin
C16 (earlier (ME) as alternation): from L. alternare (see alternative).
Usage
The use of alternate to mean alternative is common in North American English, though still generally regarded as incorrect in Britain.
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Alternative
Alternative or alternate may refer to:
Examples of use of Alternate
1. Another offer included seeds for alternate crops.
2. An alternate bidder seemed unlikely, analysts said.
3. The Congress elected a central committee with 1' members and 10 alternate members and the Central Committee appointed a Politburo with seven members and one alternate member.
4. The congress elected a Party Central Committee with 101 full and 32 alternate members and a Political Bureau with 14 full and three alternate members.
5. Alternate arrangements were made for Muslims to pray, police said.