Alternate

Definitions: Alternate

Alternate

Adjective

1. Every second one of a series; "the cleaning lady comes on alternate Wednesdays"; "jam every other day"- the White Queen.

2. Allowing a choice; "an alternative plan".

3. Occurring by turns; first one and then the other; "alternating feelings of love and hate".

4. (botany) of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired; "stems with alternate leaves".

Noun

1. Someone who takes the place of another person.

Verb

1. Go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions.

2. Exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions.

3. Be an understudy or alternate for a role.

4. Reverse, as of direction or attitude.

5. Do something in turns; "We take turns on the night shift".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "alternate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references)

Language

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Alternate

Changeableness

Verb: fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter, shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble, turn and turn about, ring the changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and change about; waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute); oscillate; vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes; alternate; have as man phases as the moon.

Correlation

Verb: reciprocate, alternate; interchange; exchange; counterchange.

Adjective: reciprocal, mutual, commutual, correlative, reciprocative, interrelated, closely related; alternate; interchangeable; interdependent; international; complemental, complementary.

Discontinuity

Verb: be discontinuous; Adjective: alternate, intermit, sputter, stop and start, hesitate.

Adjective: discontinuous, unsuccessive, broken, interrupted, dicousu; disconnected, unconnected; discrete, disjunctive; fitful; (irregular); spasmodic, desultory; intermitting, occasional; Verb:, intermittent; alternate; recurrent; (periodic).

Evolution

Verb: oscillate; vibrate, librate; alternate, undulate, wave; rock, swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play; wamble, wabble; dangle, swag.

Irresolution

Vacillate; change; retract; fluctuate; pendulate; alternate; (oscillate); keep off and on, play fast and loose; blow hot and cold; (caprice).

Regularity of recurrence Periodicity

Verb: recur in regular order, recur in regular succession; return, revolve; come again, come in its turn; come round, come round again; beat, pulsate; alternate; intermit.

Adjective: periodic, periodical; serial, recurrent, cyclical, rhythmical; recurring; Verb: intermittent, remittent; alternate, every other.

Sequence

Verb: succeed; come after, come on, come next; follow, ensue, step into the shoes of; alternate.

Adjective: succeeding;Verb: sequent; subsequent, consequent, sequacious, proximate, next; consecutive; (continuity); alternate, amoebean.

Variation

Noun: variation; alteration; (change). modification, moods and tenses; discrepance, discrepancy. divergency; deviation; aberration; innovation. Verb: vary; (change); deviate; diverge; alternate, swerve.

Crosswords: Alternate

Agreed. A trauma powerful enough to create an alternate personality leaves the victim -- (Batman Forever; writing credit: Bob Kane; Lee Batchler)

I ordered every alternate fingernail to be removed, and you know, I still get a card from him every Christmas. (The Missionary; writing credit: Michael Palin)

Daniel, when you were in this alternate reality, were there differences? (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)

Elvis: The Alternate Aloha Concert (1973)

Alternate Realities (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Alternate Marketing Networks, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Alternate Gettysburgs (reference)

• An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural: James Randi's Decidedly Skeptical Definitions of Alternate Realities (reference)

• Ecstatic Body Postures: Alternate Reality (reference)

• Intermediate Algebra, Alternate Version (8th Edition) (reference)

• Lion's Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Alternate Perceptions (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Elvis - The Alternate Aloha Concert (reference)

• Alternate Energy (reference)

• Star Trek - Deep Space Nine, Episode 32: The Alternate (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Alternate Faith (reference)

• Hystericool: Best of the Alternate Mixes (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Freud LU85C010 Limited Edition Chrome 10", 80-Tooth, 5/8" Arbor with Alternate Top Bevel Grind Blade (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Alternate use for Turtle Excluder and fish nets - taking a rest at the end of the day.Credit: Fisheries.

Navy divers assisting in the placement of used tires as an alternate reef material on the artificial reef site at Pokai Bay, Oahu. The tires did not stay in place because of the strong surge of the large Pacific swells at the site.Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Navy divers assisting in the placement of used tires as an alternate reef material on the artificial reef site at Pokai Bay, Oahu. The tires did not stay in place because of the strong surge of the large Pacific swells at the site.Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Navy divers assisting in the placement of used tires as an alternate reef material on the artificial reef site at Pokai Bay, Oahu. The tires did not stay in place because of the strong surge of the large Pacific swells at the site.Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Harrowing a 2,000 acre wheat field which is allowed to fallow alternate years. Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County, California.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Darkness and light alternate with each other.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In some people, constipation and diarrhea alternate. (references)

Nausea and vomiting may be present, and diarrhea and constipation alternate. (references)

Alternate forms of the same gene. Two or more alleles can shape each human trait. (references)

Business

The firm plans to use its extensive network across Greece to provide alternate service to the current OTE monopoly provider. (references)

The leasing sector in general has experienced commendable growth over the years and has proved to be an alternate source of finance. (references)

In addition to being one of the permissible Islamic modes of financing, lease financing also became popular as an alternate source of financing. (references)

Civil Liberties

Congo

Tshisekedi traveled on alternate documents during the year and later obtained a passport. (references)

Cuba

The hearse abruptly departed, forcing mourners to find alternate ways of transportation to the cemetery. (references)

Economic History

Eritrea

The GSE is also interested in developing alternate energy sources including geothermal, wind, and solar. (references)

Human Rights

Turkmenistan

The authorities erected additional monuments and luxury apartment buildings which remained vacant, forcing numerous families to find alternate housing. (references)

Guyana

To reduce overcrowding, the GHRA called on the judiciary to consider alternate sentencing for minor offenses, rejuvenation of the Parole Board, and the release of ill prisoners who have completed almost all of their sentences. (references)

Turkmenistan

Citizens who built their homes without the approval from the Government were not offered alternate accommodations, despite their personal investment in the property, their length of occupancy, or the degree of hardship they faced as a result. (references)

Minorities

Kuwait

However, there also are credible reports of government authorities encouraging bidoon to purchase counterfeit passports in order to establish a claim to an alternate nationality. (references)

Political Economy

Argentina

The first direct election of Senators will take place in October 2001. Deputies are elected for four years, in alternate terms, with half standing for reelection every two years. (references)

Ecuador

Since civilian rule was re-established, a pattern has emerged in which administrations of the center-left alternate with those of the center-right as the electorate searches for ways to make necessary economic changes at minimal social cost. (references)

Political Rights

China

One alternate member of the 22-member Politburo is a woman, and women hold 2 of 29 ministerial-level positions. (references)

Uruguay

In 2000 for the first time, an Afro-Uruguayan elected as an alternate deputy substituted in legislative sessions for an absent deputy for approximately 10 days. (references)

Fiji

The amended Constitution also contained an alternate vote system for elections to the lower house to replace the winner takes all system of the previous constitution. (references)

Trade

Korea

Debentures are a financing alternate, although slightly more expensive than bank financing. (references)

Tanzania

The alternate methods are only used when the conditions set for the transaction value method are not met. (references)

Worker Rights

Equatorial Guinea

Opposition politicians who are not participating in the Government often claimed to have been dismissed from their jobs after joining alternate political groups. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "alternate": alternate access carriers ♦ alternate aerodrome ♦ Alternate alligation ♦ alternate angle ♦ Alternate angles ♦ alternate current ♦ alternate current bus ♦ alternate current distribution system ♦ Alternate generation ♦ alternate inter angles ♦ alternate judge ♦ alternate leaves ♦ alternate mark inversion ♦ alternate operation ♦ alternate route ♦ alternate use ♦ alternate water terminal ♦ alternate with ♦ on alternate days ♦ phase alternate line. Additional references.

Ending with "alternate": half-alternate.

Albanian

alternues, alternoj, alternativ (alternative, alternatively), tjetëror, ndërrues, kaloj (beguile, come by, come round, cross, cut, devolve, elapse, exceed, float, get by, glide, go, go by, go off, go past, negotiate, outbalance, overstep, pass, passage, ram, run, run in, rush by, skip, slip by, slip past, span, spend, strain, take across, track, transcend, transgress, turn, undergo, witness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متناوب (rotatory), ‏متعاقب (consecutive, rotatory, sequent, sequential, successive), ‏متبادل (cross, interplay, mutual, mutually, reciprocal), ‏تناوب (alternation, relay, rotate, rotation, shift), ‏تعاقب (alternation, gradation, interchange, progression, revolve, rotate, rotation, sequence, series, succeed, succession), ‏تبادل (bandy, change, commutation, exchange, interchange, pass, reciprocate, reciprocation, reciprocity, swap, truck), ‏المنظم إفراديا, ‏البديل (alternative, stand by). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сменям (change, change off, change round, exchange, interchange, relay, shift, spell, swap, switch over to, throw, transfer), редуващ се през едно, редувам (change off, interchange, rotate), заместник (deputy, lieutenant, pinch hitter, proxy, replacement, secondary, stand by, stand in, sub, substitute, succedaneum, successor, surrogate, vice, vicegerent), периодичен (intermittent, periodic, periodical). (various references)

Chinese 

輪流 , 變換 (to convert, vary), 代替 (subrogate, Substitutional, Substitutionary, supersede, Superseded, Superseding, supplant, Supplanted, supplanting), 備�"� (backup, reserve, spare). (various references)

Czech

zástupce (agent, deputy, lawyer, procurator, proxy, representative, substitute), střídavý (diversified, intermittent, reciprocal, remittent), střídat (diversify, rotate), náhradník (reserve player, stand in, standby, sub, substitute, surrogate, understudy), každý druhý (every other). (various references)

Danish

alternere, stedfortræder (proxy), modsatbladet (distichous). (various references)

Dutch

afwisselend (alternately, alternating, distichous, variable), alterneren. (various references)

Esperanto

alterni, alterna (alternating). (various references)

Farsi 

یک درمیان امدن , یک درمیان , متناوب کردن , متناوب (Alternating, Alternative, Continual, Intermittent, Jerky, Periodic, Spotty, Stagger), متبادل , عوض وبدل , بنوبت انجام دادن . (various references)

Finnish

kaksirivinen (distichous, double-breasted), distikkinen (distichous). (various references)

French

alterner. (various references)

Frisian

ôfwikseljend (alternating, variable), ôfwikselje. (various references)

German

wechseln (bandy, change, change over, change round, exchange, move away, pass by, redeem, shift, substitute, swap, switch, to alternate, to bandy, to exchange, to swap, turn), sich ablösen (become detached, come off, peel off, relieve each other, slough, soak off, take turns, work in relays), alternieren, abwechselnd (alternately, alternating, interchangeably, rotational, rotatory). (various references)

Greek 

εναλλάσσω (commute, interchange, stagger). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתחלף, מסור�' (chequered, latticed), ל�"חליף (change, commute, exchange, interchange, pinchhit, replace, substitute, switch, swop, trade in). (various references)

Hungarian

váltakozó (amoebaean, have moods, intermittent, protean, revolving, to reciprocate), minden második (every other, every second), változó (altering, broken, erratic, fickle, movable, moveable, variable, varied, various), váltótárs, kölcsönös (bilateral, give and take, liaison, mutual, reciprocal). (various references)

Indonesian

wakil (agent, deputy, representative, vice), pengganti (lieu, substitute, surogate), gilir (take turns), bergantian (by turns). (various references)

Italian

alterno (alternating, distichous), alternare (change, take turns). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'い違い (alternation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たがいちがいに, たがいちがい (alternation), ひとつおき (every other one), かわり (a replacement, a turn, alteration, an exchange transaction, change, compensation, deputy, difference, proxy, relief, second helping, strangeness, substitute), �"う�" (colloquial language, hereafter, mutual, reciprocal), オルタネイト , � いりしゃ (agent, attorney, deputy, proxy, representative, substitute), � いりに�" (agent, attorney, deputy, proxy, representative, substitute), � いり (acting, agency, agent, attorney, deputy, imperial palace, proxy, representation, substitute). (various references)

Korean 

교체�"원. (various references)

Manx

maylartey (barter, bartering, commutation, commute, exchange, interchange, reciprocate, reciprocating, reciprocation, substitution, swap, transpose, transposing), eddyraghey (distinguish, taking in turns), cor (bastard, bastard of size, circumstance, condition, condition terms, depression, edge, event, fore, odd, turn, turn act, twirl). (various references)

Pig Latin

alternateay

Portuguese

alternar (alternating, bandy, interchange, reciprocate, rotate), alterno (alternating), alternado (alternating, other, rotative). (various references)

Romanian

alternant (alternating), alterna (interchange), altern, succeda (succeed). (various references)

Russian 

сменять друг друга, чередующийся (ding-dong, interchangeable, rolling), чередоваться (take turns), запасный (duplicate, reservation), попеременный, переменный (rotational, rotative, variable, varying degrees). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vršiti naizmence, rezervni (pool, reserve, spare, standby, variant), naizmeničan (alterative, alternating, interchangeable, intermittent). (various references)

Spanish

alterno (alternating, distichous), alternar (interchange, reciprocate, rotate, stagger, take turns), sustituto (deputy, ersatz, replacement, substitute, surrogate). (various references)

Swedish

växla (alter, bandy, change, exchange, fluctuate, kick, shift, shunt, switch, toggle, turn). (various references)

Turkish

alternatif (alternating, alternative), vekil (administrator, assignee, attorney, commissary, commissioner, delegate, deputy, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, minister, nominee, proxy, representative, stand in, substitute, supply, surrogate, vicar, vice, vice gerent), sıra ile yapmak, muavin (assistant, help, helper), değiştirmek (alter, amend, change, commute, convert, disguise, diversify, doctor, exchange, falsify, garble, inflect, interchange, intersperse, juggle with, metamorphose, modify, recast, replace, revise, shed, shift, specialize, swap, switch, switch to, swop, transmute, unmake, vary), değişmek (alter, amend, change, chop about, chop round, convert, modify, mutate, shade, shift, switch, turn to, vary), değişimli olarak yapmak, değişimli, birbirini takip etmek, birbirini izleyen (consecutive, serial), birbirini izlemek, birbiri ardından gelen. (various references)

Turkmen 

gezekleюmek. (various references)

Ukranian 

робити поперемінно, чергуватися (interchange, interlace, rotate, take turns), чергування (alternation, interchange, rotation, vicissitude), черговий (orderly), вза�"мний (mutual, recriminative, respondent), варіант (alternant, draft, variant, version), обопільний (reciprocal), змінний (alternant, alternating, alternative, removable, variable), заступник (advocate, deputy, lieutenant, nurser, patron, promoter, protector, surrogate), заміна (change, commutation, exchange, makeshift, quits, substitute, substitution), запасний (auxiliary, duplicate, emergency, occasional, reserve, reserved, spare), перемінний (alternating, rotational, variable), дублер (understudy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xen nhau, xen kẽ (alternating, interstratification, interstratified), người thay thế (commutator, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, sub, substitute), người dự khuyết, luân phiên nhau. (various references)

Welsh

eilio (plait, second, sing, weave), digwydd pob yn ail, bob yn ail (every other). (various references)

alternans, alternus, distichos. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "alternate": alternated, alternately, alternates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Alternate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aeternae, Alteranthera, alterate, alternatim, althernate, altrnate, aternate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: alterant, anteater, tarletan.

-2 letters: enteral, entreat, eternal, nettler, ratteen, teleran, ternate, tetanal.

-3 letters: aerate, antler, antral, elater, entera, lanate, lateen, latent, latten, latter, leaner, learnt, letter, natter, neater, netter, nettle, rattan, ratten, rattle, relate, relent, rental, talent, tantra, tarnal, tartan, telnet, tenter.

-4 letters: alane, alant, alate, alert, altar, alter, anear, anele, antae, antra, antre.

+1 letter: alternated, alternates.

+2 letters: alternately, alternative, entablature, intercalate, rattlesnake, retranslate, tetravalent.

+3 letters: alternatives, antiliterate, departmental, entablatures, intercalated, intercalates, maltreatment, rattlesnakes, retranslated, retranslates.

+4 letters: alternatively, antiliterates, determinantal, maltreatments, parenthetical, preternatural, rattlebrained, temperamental, tractableness, transliterate, unadulterated, ventrolateral.

+5 letters: antifederalist, articulateness, departmentally, faintheartedly, interdialectal, interplanetary, presentational, stalwartnesses, tatterdemalion, transcendental, transferential, transliterated, transliterates, trihalomethane.

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