Every Other

Definition: Every Other

Every Other

Adjective

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

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

Synonyms: Every Other

Regularity of recurrence Periodicity

By turns; in turn, in rotation; alternately, every other day, off and on, ride and tie, round and round.

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

Crosswords: Every Other

Yeah, but it tastes like every other fish I've ever eaten (Enemy of the State; writing credit: David Marconi)

Yeah. Remember, like a few years ago? Every other boy was named Jason, and the girls were all named Brittany (Hercules; writing credit: Ron Clements; Barry Johnson)

Then it was every other daynow I'm lucky to find half an hour a week in which to get funky (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Every other mother-to-be does not have to worry about her child orbing to Tahiti when they are sent to their room (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

Yeah, I've always been good at football, and basketball, and every other sport I've tried (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel)

What separates "60 Minutes" on CBS from every other TV show? No theme song music. (references; author: unknown)

Every Other Time (performing artist: LFO)

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Books

• The Everything Etiquette Book; Mind your manners, with family and friends, announcements and invitations, business, travel, the Internet and every other awkward situation. (reference)

• A Comic Book of Pets: Found, Raised, Washed, Curried, Combed, Fed, and Cared for in Every Other Way (reference)

• Method for learning to play the trumpet in a warlike way as well as musically : with the organ, with a mute, with a harpsichord, and every other instrument (reference)

• Wednesday Evenings and Every Other Weekend : From Divorced Dad to Competent Co-Parent. A Guide for the Noncustodial Father (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

For liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others; which cannot be, where there is no law: but freedom is not, as we are told, a liberty for every man to do what he lists: (for who could be free, when every other man's humour might domineer over him?) but a liberty to dispose, and order as he lists, his person, actions, possessions, and his whole property, within the allowance of those laws under which he is, and therein not to be subject to the arbitrary will of another, but freely follow his own. (Second Treatise of Government)

Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. (reference)

The proletarians cannot become masters of the productive forces of society, except by abolishing their own previous mode of appropriation, and thereby also every other previous mode of appropriation. (reference)

And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. (reference)

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To complete every other recommendation, he had almost told her that he loved her.

The beggar had the same form, the same rags, the same general appearance as on every other day.

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Business

And every other day new entrants within this particular sub-sector announce their intention of opening a representative office in Dubai. (references)

Civil Liberties

Vietnam

The Government limits the Catholic Church to 6 major seminaries and to accepting new seminarians only every other year. (references)

Croatia

Nearly every other instance of restituted property occurred pursuant to a private agreement between the owner and occupier. (references)

Hungary

State-run television carries a 26-minute program produced by and for each major minority group; programs serving the smaller minority communities may be seen every other week or on a monthly basis. (references)

Economic History

Moldova

The elections were widely judged as free and fair by international observers, a hallmark that would come to characterize every other nationwide election in Moldova as well. (references)

Switzerland

After this period, most personnel are assigned to civil defense duties until the age of 52. Members of the field forces are mobilized for training every other year for at least 3 weeks (longer for officers and specialists) and from 300 days for privates to 900 days for captains. (references)

Political Rights

Bolivia

In addition, every other candidate on municipal election ballots, beginning with the second candidate, must be a woman--a requirement that has augmented female representation to approximately 30 percent of municipal council positions. (references)

Travel

Korea

Some companies are beginning to provide Saturday mornings or every other Saturday off. (references)

Worker Rights

Taiwan

In the public sector, there is a 5-day workweek every other week. (references)

Taiwan

According to a CLA survey, about one-third of private enterprises also have 5-day workweeks every other week. (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 "every other": every other day ♦ every other five days ♦ every other man ♦ every other week ♦ every other year. Additional references.

Albanian

çdo tjetër. (various references)

Arabic 

‏بالتناوب (alternately, by fits and starts, intermittent, off and on). (various references)

Bulgarian 

всеки втори. (various references)

Czech

každý druhý (alternate). (various references)

Danish

hvis en sektion boreroer skilles ad i hver anden samling,betegnes den derved fremkomne roerlaengde en dobbelt sektion(double stand) (if a stand of drill pipe is disconnected at every other joint, the resulting length of pipe is called a double stand). (various references)

Dutch

om de dag (every other day), om de andere dag (every other day), indien een trek boorpijpen om de andere pijp wordt losgeschroefd,noemt men dit stuk een dubbel (if a stand of drill pipe is disconnected at every other joint, the resulting length of pipe is called a double stand). (various references)

Esperanto

ĉiun duan tagon (every other day). (various references)

Finnish

joka toinen. (various references)

French

tous les cinq jours. (various references)

German

jeder zweite (other). (various references)

Greek 

όταν από ένα μήκος στελεχών γεωτρήσεως αποσυνδέεται ένα στοιχείο,τότε το μήκος των στελεχών,που εναπομένει,ονομάζεται "διπλό" (if a stand of drill pipe is disconnected at every other joint, the resulting length of pipe is called a double stand), μέρα παρά μέρα (every other day). (various references)

Hebrew 

לסרו�'ין (alternately, by fits and starts, fitful, in instalments, intermittently, off and on, on and off). (various references)

Hungarian

minden második (alternate, every second). (various references)

Italian

un giorno sì e un giorno no (every other day). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"週　 (every other week), �"週 (every other week), �"月 (every other month, every second month), �"日 (every other day), �"年 (biannually, every other year, every second year), 一日置き (every other day), 一つ置き (alternate, every other one). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひとつおき (alternate, every other one), かくしゅう (every other week, every week), かくね�" (biannually, every other year, every second year, last year), かく�'つ (every other month, every second month, last month), かくじつ (certainty, every other day, reliability, soundness), いちにちおき (every other day). (various references)

Manx

yn derrey shiaghtin (every other week), yn derrey laa (every other day). (various references)

Pig Latin

everyay otheray.(various references)

Portuguese

dia sim, dia não (every other day). (various references)

Romanian

o datã la douã zile (every other day), fiecare al doilea om (every other man), din douã în douã zile (every other day), din douã în douã sãptãmâni (every other week, every two weeks). (various references)

Russian 

каждый второй. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svako drugi. (various references)

Spanish

uno sí y otro no. (various references)

Swedish

varannan (each other, every second, indiscriminately, one another). (various references)

Turkish

iki günde bir (every other day), gün aşırı (every other day, on alternate days), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent). (various references)

Turkmen 

gьnasa (every other day). (various references)

Ukrainian

кожний другий (every second). (various references)

Welsh

bob yn ail (alternate). (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: evertor, hoverer.

-4 letters: hereto, hetero, retore, revere, revert, revery, revote, rhetor, theory, throve, trover, vetoer.

-5 letters: ether, evert, every, herry, hover, other, overt, reeve, retro, retry, revet, rover, terry, there, three, throe, toyer, trove, veery, voter.