[
US
/ˈɔɫtɝˌneɪt, ˈɔɫtɝnət/
]
VERB
- exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
- be an understudy or alternate for a role
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do something in turns
We take turns on the night shift - go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
NOUN
- someone who takes the place of another person
ADJECTIVE
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occurring by turns; first one and then the other
alternating feelings of love and hate -
serving or used in place of another
an alternative plan -
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 -
every second one of a series
the cleaning lady comes on alternate Wednesdays
jam every other day
How To Use alternate In A Sentence
- A couple of phone calls, arranged by a deep-sea diver I came to know while working on a story on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua, led me to an alternately boastful and paranoidly surreptitious man named Steve. The Lampshade
- They monodic jaded tactual orlando fl hotel and nibbler diodon in baldrick baccivorous alternate cuculidae thunk in the wheatworm bar nagger desynchronisation in abscess. Rational Review
- It is also certain that those who indulge in excesses find their vigor more speedily restored by the alternate use of chocolate and coffee than by any other ingesta; and pigs, goats, and horses, which are fed even on the spoiled berries, are observed to become very speedily fat, and in good condition. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
- This service presents alternate addresses when Internet users mistype a URL. Internet News: Browsers Archives
- They were so beautifully typeset, and their tone was just captivating — alternately casual and buffer-overflowingly technical. Copy What You Like
- A similar problem came up yesterday in reading a Boris Akunin story called Strast' i dolg Passion and duty, set in an alternate Russia which has revived tsardom, along with its Table of Ranks and all the rest of the imperial paraphernalia. Languagehat.com: TRANSLATION PROBLEMS.
- With words like "nite" and "lite" having achieved semi-acceptable status as at least "alternate spellings," I suppose it's only a matter of time before "u" become official. Archive 2007-03-01
- Similarly, a study of Tunisian women in Morocco showed that older women categorically use diphthongs /aw/and/aj /, while middle-aged women alternate between diphthongs and monophthongs.
- Thus natural science will be subalternate to mathematics, for even though mathematics is not the science of the higher form, of light, considered in itself, it does govern the way in which light realizes itself in space. Medieval Theories of Demonstration
- In order for cyclothymia to be diagnosed, hypomanic symptoms and depressive symptoms must be present alternately for at least two years.
