Alter

Definition: Alter

Alter

Verb

1. Cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue".

2. Make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season".

3. Make an alteration to; "This dress needs to be altered".

4. Insert words into texts.

5. Castrate, used with animals; "Is your dog neutered?".

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

"Alter" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be old", "other".

Date "alter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

ALTER

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

Synonyms: Alter

Activity

Phrase: carpe diem; (opportunity); nulla dies sine linea; nec mora nec requies; the plot thickens; No sooner said than done; (early); "veni vidi vici"; catch a weasel asleep; abends wird der Faule fleissig; dictum ac factum; schwere Arbeit in der Jugend ist sanfte Ruhe im Alter; "the busy hum of men ".

Auxiliary

Ally; friend; confidant, fidus Achates, pal, buddy, alter ego.

Change

Verb: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume.

Compensation

Phrase: " light is mingled with the gloom "; every dark cloud has a silver lining; primo avulso non deficit alter; saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas.

Deputy

Regent, viceregent, vizier, minister, vicar; premier; (director); chancellor, prefect, provost, warden, lieutenant, archon, consul, proconsul; viceroy; (governor); commissioner; Tsung-li Yamen, Wai Wu Pu; plenipotentiary, alter ego.

Deviation

Verb: alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe, wear.

Evidence

Verb: countervail, oppose; mitigate against; rebut; (refute); subvert; (destroy); cheek, weaken; contravene; contradict; (deny); tell the other side of the story, tell another story, turn the scale, alter the case; turn the tables; cut both ways; prove a negative.

Friend

Noun: friend, friend of one's bosom; alter ego; best friend, bosom friend, soulmate, fast friend; amicus; usque ad aras; fidus Achates; persona grata.

Identity

Facsimile; (copy); homoousia: alter ego; (similar); ipsissima verba; (exactness); same; self, very, one and the same; very thing, actual thing; real McCoy; no other; one and only; in the flesh.

Impotence

Unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter, sterilize, fix.

Plurality

Phrase: non deficit alter.

Similarity

Analogue; the like; match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister; one's second self, alter ego, chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum, Arcades ambo, birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne; gens de meme famille.

Crosswords: Alter

Danish (altar), Frisian (altar), German (age, antiqueness, Hoar, old age, seniority), Latin (alter, another, either, elevate, former, further, latter, make high, next, one, other, otherwise, raise, second, some person, the other (of the two), thing), Lombard (another, else, other).

Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

They don't alter their views to fit the facts (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

You can alter our physiology but you cannot change our nature (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart)

When you kneel before the alter, how do you get up again (Ladyhawke; writing credit: Edward Khmara)

I now alter the bargain (Battlestar Galactica; writing credit: Glen A. Larson)

We stood at the alter the gypsy swore our future was right (BRILLIANT DISGUISE; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

They say music can alter moods and talk to you (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM)

Success or failure will not alter it (THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER; performing artist: Howard Jones)

Alter Kahn und junge Liebe (1973)

Ein Mann im schönsten Alter (1963)

Alter Kahn und junge Liebe (1957)

Männer im gefährlichen Alter (1953)

Das Gefährliche Alter (1927)

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

Books

• Alter Your Life (reference)

• Animals and Psychedelics: The Natural World and the Instinct to Alter Consciousness (reference)

• Confessions of an Alter Boy (reference)

• Fantastic Fit for Every Body: How to Alter Patterns to Flatter Your Figure (A Rodale Sewing Book) (reference)

• How To Alter A Bridal Gown (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Alter Agri (reference)

• Alter Echos (reference)

• Alter Ego - Loi Faillite (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Star Trek - Voyager, Episode 55: Alter Ego (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Abductions with the Alter Boy (reference)

• Alter (reference)

• Alter Eko (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

"Traveling Wave 1" (movie) by Сергей Бирюков (Sergei Biryukov). In this movie, and in "Traveling Wave 2", you can use DPGraph's scrollbar to vary the parameters A, B, C, and D, to alter the movie while it is running.

Are education and propaganda sufficient to alter the habits which breed sexually transmitted diseases? / WHO/Camera Press, London photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Tobol'sk kremlin, Archbishop's Residence (1773-75), interior, residential church, view east with alter. Since 1925, the main site of the Tobol'sk Regional History Museum, Tobol'sk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Circumstances alter cases. It is most humiliating ... Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Alter casus est, Si rex in alicujus clientelam se contulit, ac regnum quod liberum a majoribus & populo traditum accepit, alienae ditioni mancipavit. (Second Treatise of Government)

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. (reference)

Clause 1: The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators. (reference)

It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it; or, that the legislature may alter the constitution by an ordinary act. (reference)

And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class. (reference)

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course--both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She was pleased with the eagerness to arrive which had made him alter his plan, and travel earlier, later, and quicker, that he might gain half a day.

I see it, but I cannot alter it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Attempts to alter FFP use frequently have been ineffective. (references)

Second messengers diffuse within the cell and alter cell behavior. (references)

V. vulnificus does not alter the appearance, taste, or odor of oysters. (references)

Business

Severance compensation is generous and management latitude to alter its workforce is restricted. (references)

Treatment may also be used to alter the state of the waste so that it is no longer defined as clinical waste. (references)

Partnerships between client/supplier will alter the way business is conducted by creating new virtual, networked organizations. (references)

Civil Liberties

Hungary

The Government may alter or revoke permits for assembly, but there were no reports that they used this authority during the year. (references)

Burkina Faso

Applicants must indicate the date, time, duration, and itinerary of the march or rally, and authorities may alter or deny requests on grounds of public safety. (references)

Bulgaria

By September the Ministry of Transport and Communications had prepared and submitted to the Council of Ministers amendments to the 1998 Telecommunications Act which would alter the procedure for licensing private radio stations. (references)

Economic History

Yemen

However, Yemeni markets are shallow and can alter rapidly as the preferences of the general populace change. (references)

El Salvador

Large loans now being sought to finance reconstruction from the 2001 earthquakes will further alter the country's debt profile. (references)

Lebanon

Efforts to alter or abolish the confessional system of allocating power have been at the center of Lebanese politics for decades. (references)

Human Rights

Liechtenstein

The Constitution authorizes the Prince to alter criminal sentences or pardon offenders. (references)

Egypt

The President may alter or annul a decision of a State Security Emergency court, including a decision to release a defendant. (references)

Niger

Elements of civil society successfully opposed a government attempt to alter the composition of the Commission during the year. (references)

Indigenous People

Venezuela

The groups had charged that only the legislature may alter the nature of the reserve; that the public review process prior to the change was inadequate; and that expanded mining activities would affect adversely the health of the Warao, Arawako, Karina, Akawaio, and Pemon indigenous communities that inhabit the Imataca watershed area. (references)

Political Economy

Ireland

Given the broad similarity between government and opposition views on economic policy, and the relative political weakness of those who propose radical changes to the country's economy, a change in government is unlikely to alter Irish economic policy. (references)

Worker Rights

China

The presence of Communist Party representatives in a small percentage of private enterprises, and of nonunion worker organizations in some state-owned enterprises has done little to alter the fact that the great majority of workers in the private sector have no official union representation. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "alter": alter course ♦ alter ego ♦ alter for the worse ♦ alter switch ♦ alter the case ♦ alter the course of ♦ non deficit alter ♦ primo avulso non deficit alter ♦ schwere Arbeit in der Jugend ist sanfte Ruhe im Alter. Additional references.

Beginning with "alter": alter-ego, alter-egos.

Afrikaans

verander (change, turn). (various references)

Albanian

shndërroj (convert, foul, transform, transmogrify, transmute, turn into), ndryshoj (amend, change, differ, diversify, do up, inflect, manipulate, metamorphose, recast, reverse, shift, switch, transform, vary). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قلب (bring down, capricious, capsize, center, centre, change, convert, core, essence, flip, heart, inversion, invert, inverting, leaf, middle, overthrow, overturn, reversal, reverse, tip, topple, transform, transformation, turn, turn about, turn around, turn inside down, turn over, turn up, upset, upturn, whimsical), ‏غير أو زور, ‏حسن (advantage, ameliorate, amend, beautiful, better, elaborate, extend, fine, handsome, improve, innovate, like better, make efficient, ok, okay, okey, perfect, polish, pretty, reclaim, reform, season, upgrade, well), ‏تغير (alteration, change, convert, metamorphose, modify, mutate, mutation, range, set of exchange, shift, shift up, swing, turn, variation, vary, vicissitude), ‏تبدل (alteration, change, chop, convert, transform), ‏عدل (adjust, amend, arrange, blue pencil, commute, equal, equate, erect, evenness, fairness, fashion, fix, justice, justness, mend, modify, modulate, overhaul, qualify, reason, recast, reclaim, rectify, redress, regulate, remodel, reshuffle, retrofit, revise, right, righteousness, rightness, shuffle, straighten, temper), ‏خصى (castrate, emasculate, geld, neuter). (various references)

Bulgarian 

променям (change, change to, differentiate, graduate, leaven, modify, mutate, remodel, reshape, reverse, shade, shift, turn, vary), преправям (bushel, convert, do over, rebuild, redo, remake, reshape), поправям (adjust, amend, blue pencil, castigate, cobble, correct, do up, doctor, emend, fix, fix up, mend, polish, recast, recondition, rectify, redeem, redress, remedy, renovate, repair, retouch, retrieve, revamp, revise, service, true, vamp), изменям се (mutate, turn), изменям (amend, betray, double cross, fail, modulate, mutate, renegade, shoot down, sophisticate, turn traitor). (various references)

Chinese 

修改 (Altered, Altering, modification, modified, modify, Modifying). (various references)

Czech

zmìnit (invert, reverse, revise, switch, transform), upravit (adapt, adjust, arrange, do up, dress, fix, modify, organize, readjust, redress, regulate, sleek, tidy, touch up, treat, trim), pozmìnit (amend, modify), přestavìt (convert, rearrange, rebuild, reconstruct), předìlat (change, do over, overdo, re-do, remake), přešít. (various references)

Danish

forandre (change, turn). (various references)

Dutch

veranderen (change, transform, turn), anders maken (change, turn). (various references)

Esperanto

aliigi (change, turn), aliiĝi (change). (various references)

Farsi 

تغییریافتن , تغییردادن (Affect, Change, Interchange, Modify, Permute, Turquoise, Vary), عوض کردن (Change, Exchange, Remodel, Swap, Vary), جرح وتعدیل کردن , اصلاح کردن (Accommodate, Accord, Ameliorate, Correct, Emend, Improve, Modify, Reclaim, Remedy, Revise, Right), دگرگون کردن (Transform, Vary). (various references)

Finnish

muuttua (be changed, be converted, change, turn, vary), muuttaa (change, convert, migrate, move move, remove, transform, turn), muutella (change, shift), muute (change, shift), kuohita (castrate), kastroida (castrate, neuter, to castrate, to emasculate). (various references)

French

castrer. (various references)

Frisian

feroarje (amend, change, turn). (various references)

German

ändern (altering, amend, change, changing, modify, revise, switch, to amend, to modify, turn, vary), verändern (change, clone, diversify, modify, mutate, to clone, to mutate, transform, turn, vary), umändern (change, make over, modify, rearrange, transform, turn). (various references)

Greek 

μετατρέπω (commute, convert, divert, reduce, transform, transmute), αλλάζω (change, chop, make over, shift, switch, veer), τροποποιώ (adfect, amend, modify, qualify). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשנות (be different, change, modify). (various references)

Hungarian

változtat (change, modify, modulate, to change, to etherealize, to modulate, to render, to try another tack, to vary, vary), változik (change, to change, to fluctuate, to turn to, to vary, turn), átdolgoz (revise, to do over, to remodel, to reshape, to rework, to touch up, to work over, work over). (various references)

Icelandic

umbreyta (change, turn). (various references)

Indonesian

merubah (revise, vary), mempermak, berubah (change). (various references)

Irish

athraigh (change). (various references)

Italian

cambiarsi (change, shift), alterare (change, clone, falsify, forge, garble, get angry, go bad, go sour, lose one's temper, modify, transform, weather). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

改める (to alter, to change, to reform, to revise), 変える (to alter, to amend, to change, to convert, to revise, to vary). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かえる (frog, to alter, to amend, to change, to come back, to come home, to convert, to exchange, to go back, to go home, to hatch out, to interchange, to replace, to return, to revise, to send back, to substitute, to turn over, to turn upside down, to vary), あらためる (to alter, to change, to reform, to revise), じかんわりをなおす (to alter the schedule), へんずる (to alter, to be transfigured, to be transformed, to change into, to convert, to transform), へんじる (to alter, to be transfigured, to be transformed, to change into, to convert, to transform), てんずる (to alter, to distract, to drop, to kindle, to light, to make tea, to shift, to turn), てんじる (to alter, to distract, to drop, to kindle, to light, to make tea, to shift, to turn). (various references)

Korean 

바꾸십시요. (various references)

Papiamen

cambia (change, turn). (various references)

Pig Latin

alteray.(various references)

Portuguese

altere, alterar (bartender, change, confound, differ, discompose, distemper, distort, garble, invert, make into, modify, mutate, overset, reconsider, shift, sophisticate, translate, transmute, unsettle, vary), retocar (brush up, finish, put the last hand to, touch up), mudar-se (move out), mudar (bartender, change, chop, clabber, exchange, gybe, hand back, move, pass, relay, shed, switch, to change, transform, transmogrify, turn, vary), modificar-se (turn). (various references)

Romanian

schimba (change, chop, commute, convert into, exchange, fashion, improve, interchange, modify, renew, replace, shift, substitute, supersede, supplant, swap, transfigure, transform, transmogrify, transmute, turn, vary). (various references)

Russian 

изменять (betray, change with, fictionalize, inflect, transform, vary, veer). (various references)

Scottish

atharraich (remove), mùth (change), caochail (change, die). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

preurediti (readjust, rearrange), prepravka (alteration, redecoration, remake), prepraviti (redecorate, redo, remake, remodel, revamp, rework), preinačiti (diversify, modify, modulate, transform, transmogrify), izmeniti (change, replace), izmena (change, exchange, interchange, replacement, substitution). (various references)

Spanish

mudar (back, break, break up, change, convert, Molt, moult, move, mutate, shed, Slough, slough off, throw, transfer, turn, turn about, turn around, vary, veer), cambiar (back, barter, be exchanged, break, break up, change, chop, conjure, deflect, dislocate, distort, drop, exchange, interchange, shift, swap, swap around, swap over, swap round, swing, switch, swop, to exchange, transfer, turn, turn about, turn around, turn round, vary, veer), modificar (adjust, amend, change, modify, qualify, revise, vary), combiar (change, turn), alterar (alloy, break, change, clone, debase, disturb, modify, transform, upset). (various references)

Sranan

kenki (about-face, alteration, change, conversion, transformation, turn). (various references)

Swedish

ändra (amend, change, modify, redirect, revamp), förändras (change), förändra (altering, change, transform, turn). (various references)

Turkish

kısırlaştırmak (caponize, castrate, have it neutered, have it spayed, neuter, spay, sterilize, unman), hadım etmek (castrate, cut, doctor, emasculate, evirate, geld, unman), değiştirmek (alternate, 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 (alternate, amend, change, chop about, chop round, convert, modify, mutate, shade, shift, switch, turn to, vary), değişiklik yapmak (emend, innovate, modify, recast, remodel, shake up, work over), baxkalaxmak (change, turn), başkalaştırmak (metamorphose, transfigure), başkalaşmak (grow different, metamorphose, vary). (various references)

Turkmen 

ьяtgetmek (change, modify), цzgertmek (change, vary). (various references)

Ukrainian

каструвати (caponize, castrate, emasculate, neuter, spay, unman), видозмінювати (modify, mutate, transfigure, transform), мінятися (break up, change, niffer, shift, swap, switch, swop, vary), змінюватися (change, relay, spell, veer), змінювати (change, switch, tone, transform, turn round, variegate), переробляти (adapt, change, do again, furbish up, make over, readjust, recast, re-do, rehash, remake, remodel, revise, rework, transverse, turn over, work over). (various references)

Welsh

altro, newid (alteration, change). (various references)

Yucatec

k'exik (change, turn). (various references)

kúr. (various references)

nakâru. (various references)

alter, conversa, conversae, conversi, conversique, conversum, conversus, conversusque, convertam, convertantur, convertar, convertat, convertatur, converte, convertebantur, convertebat, convertemini, convertemur, convertemus, convertendas, convertendo, convertendos, convertendum, convertens, convertent, convertentem, convertentes, convertenti, convertentibus, convertentur, converterat, convertere, converteremur, converterentur, converteret, converteretur, converterint, converteris, converterit, convertero, converteruntque, convertes, convertet, convertetur, converti, convertimini, convertimur, convertis, convertissem, convertisti, convertistis, convertit, convertitis, convertitque, converto, convertuntur, inmuta, inmutabis, inmutabit, inmutabuntur, inmutare, inmutarent, inmutat, inmutata, inmutatae, inmutatumque, inmutatur, inmutatus, inmutaverunt, inmutavit, innova, innovabit, innovabitur, innovare, innovat, innovate, innovemus, muta, mutabatur, mutaberis, mutabis, mutabit, mutabitur, mutabo, mutabunt, mutabuntur, mutans, mutant, mutantem, mutantur, mutare, mutaret, mutari, mutarit, mutasset, mutat, mutata, mutate, mutato, mutatoque, mutatoria, mutatum, mutatur, mutatus, mutaverit, mutaverunt, mutavit, mutent, mutet, mutetur, muto, mutor, novo, variare, versa, versae, versaque, versi, versis, versos, versum, versumque, versus, vertam, vertatur, verte, vertebatur, vertens, vertente, vertentes, verterat, verterem, verterent, verterit, verterunt, verteruntque, vertetur, verti, vertissem, vertisset, vertisti, vertit, vertite, vertitis, vertitque, vertitur, vertunt. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "alter": alterabilities, alterability, alterable, alterably, alterant, alterants, alteration, alterations, altercate, altercated, altercates, altercating, altercation, altercations, altered, alterer, alterers, altering, alternate, alternated, alternately, alternates, alternating, alternation, alternations, alternative, alternatively, alternativeness, alternativenesses, alternatives, alternator, alternators, alters. (additional references)

Words ending with "alter": desalter, drysalter, exalter, falter, halter, misalter, palter, psalter, realter, salter. (additional references)

Words containing "alter": desalters, drysalteries, drysalters, drysaltery, exalters, faltered, falterer, falterers, faltering, falteringly, falters, halterbreak, halterbreaking, halterbreaks, halterbroke, halterbroken, haltere, haltered, halteres, haltering, halters, inalterabilities, inalterability, inalterable, inalterableness, inalterablenesses, inalterably, misaltered, misaltering, misalters, paltered, palterer, palterers, paltering, palters, psalteria, psalteries, psalterium, psalters, psaltery, realtered, realtering, realters, saltern, salterns, salters, subaltern, subalterns, superaltern, superalterns, unalterabilities. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Alter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acter, aiter, Aitor, Alatri, Alatyr, Alber, alear, aleer, aler, Alero, alet, Aleta, alher, alier, aliter, alitex, Allexr, Almer, Alnemri, alner, Alper, Alster, alstoe, altae, Altaf, altair, altan, altare, altarf, altay, alte, altec, alterc, altero, alterum, Alther, altier, Altiero, altoe, altor, altre, Altweg, Altyre, alver, apter, atear, ater, Aterk, atlee, atlet, auteer, auter, autre, avtur, blter, Iltr, itler, latere, Latero, malter, Oltre, Valtre. (additional references)