alternate
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
geometry
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
monarchy
natural-sciences
nobility
politics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin alternātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin alternō (“to take turns”) (see -ate (1,2 and 3)), from alternus (“one after another, by turns”), from alter (“other”) + -nus. Doublet of altern; see also alter.
Inflected forms:
form: alternates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alternates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: alternating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: alternated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: alternated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And bid alternate passions fall and rise
One of the two boxes displaced by the new Pelaw installation will be Springwell, between Boldon Colliery and Pelaw, which has recently had the distinction of being manned by a husband and wife on alternate shifts.
The service is half-hourly as far as Harrogate and Knaresborough, with alternate trains going on to York.
gloss: Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Goldschmidt (Austria; creation July 27, 1862): [...] party, argent and gules, an eagle of alternate colors, [...]
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
gloss: Other; alternative.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: Hyperlinked text is displayed in alternate color in a Web browser.
He lives in an alternate universe and an alternate reality.
Let's take an alternate route to avoid the traffic jam.
gloss: Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Many trees have alternate leaf arrangement (e.g. birch, oak and mulberry).
gloss: That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
pos: noun
examples: Grateful alternates of substantial peace.
gloss: A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: An alternate for the first-string quarterback played the entire first half.
Corridors beyond this point have collapsed. I'm looking for an alternate. Careful.
gloss: A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
pos: noun
gloss: A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil.
gloss: To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
gloss: To vary by turns.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
gloss: To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This case suggests that the alternation of a polyhedron should be bounded by actual vertex figures and alternated faces. The case of the cube is in agreement with this notion, since the alternated square is nothing.
Synonyms: seesaw
alternate
interchange
Related words: alternation
alternative
variant
every second
every other
Derived words: alternate action
alternate aerodrome
alternate allegation
alternate angles
alternate energy
alternate generation
alternate history
alternate juror
alternately
alternateness
alternate persona
alternate plumage
alternate reality game
alternate ring hitching
alternate timeline
alternate universe
alternating caps
alternating case
alternating function
alternating group
alternating hemiplegia
alternating knot
alternatingly
alternating series
alternator
coalternate
nonalternating
polyalternating
prealternate
subalternating
unalternated
unalternating
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: редуващ се
roman: reduvašt se
lang: Czech
word: střídavý
lang: Estonian
word: vahelduv
lang: Finnish
word: vuorotteleva
lang: German
word: alternierend
lang: German
word: wechselnd
lang: German
word: abwechselnd
lang: German
word: Wechsel-
lang: Italian
word: alterno
lang: Italian
word: alternato
lang: Latin
word: alternus
lang: Polish
word: alternować
lang: Polish
word: naprzemienny
lang: Portuguese
word: alternado
lang: Portuguese
word: alternante
lang: Spanish
word: alterno
lang: Swedish
word: växlande
lang: Swedish
word: omväxlande
lang: Swedish
word: alternerande
lang: Welsh
word: bob yn ail