 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
alternate
adjective
1: every second one of a series; "the cleaning lady comes on
alternate Wednesdays"; "jam every other day"- the
White Queen [syn: {alternate(a)}]
2: allowing a choice; "an alternative plan" [syn: {alternative}]
3: occurring by turns; first one and then the other;
"alternating feelings of love and hate" [syn: {alternate(a)},
{alternating(a)}]
4: 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" [ant: {opposite}]
noun: someone who takes the place of another person [syn: {surrogate},
{replacement}]
verb
1: go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states
or conditions [syn: {jump}]
2: exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and
functions
3: be an understudy or alternate for a role [syn: {understudy}]
4: reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) [syn: {interchange},
{tack}, {switch}, {flip}, {flip-flop}]
5: do something in turns; "We take turns on the night shift"
[syn: {take turns}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Alternate \Al*ter"nate\ (?; 277), noun
1. That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
[R.]
Grateful alternates of substantial. --Prior.
2. A substitute; one designated to take the place of another,
if necessary, in performing some duty.
3. (Math.) A proportion derived from another proportion by
interchanging the means.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Alternate \Al*ter"nate\ (?; 277), adjective [L. alternatus, p. p. of
alternate, fr. alternus. See {Altern}, {Alter}.]
1. Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in
succession of time or place; by turns first one and then
the other; hence, reciprocal.
And bid alternate passions fall and rise. --Pope.
2. 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; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.; read
every alternate line.
3. (Bot.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights
of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular
divergence. --Gray.
{Alternate alligation}. See {Alligation}.
{Alternate angles} (Geom.), the internal and angles made by
two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. It the
parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line EF, the angles AGH,
GHD, as also the angles BGH and GHC, are called alternate
angles.
{Alternate generation}. (Biol.) See under {Generation}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Alternate \Al"ter*nate\ (?; 277), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p.
{Alternated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Alternating}.] [L. alternatus,
p. p. of alternare. See {Altern}.]
To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by
turns; to interchange regularly.
The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this
life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition
of good and evil. --Grew.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Alternate \Al"ter*nate\, verb (used without an object)
1. To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow
reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as,
the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
Rage, shame, and grief alternate in his breast. --J.
Philips.
Different species alternating with each other.
--Kirwan.
2. To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky
hills and sandy plains.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
232 Moby Thesaurus words for "alternate":
advocate, agent, alter ego, alternating, alternative,
amicus curiae, analogy, attorney, back and fill, back-and-forth,
backup, backup man, bandy, battledore and shuttlecock,
be here again, be quits with, beating, champion, change,
changeling, circle, circling, come again, come and go, come around,
come round, come round again, come up again, commute, comparison,
compensate, complementary, cooperate, copy, corresponding,
counterchange, counterfeit, cover, cycle, cyclic, deputy, dither,
do a hitch, do a stint, do a tour, do time, double, dummy,
ebb and flow, enlist, epochal, equal, equivalent, equivocate,
ersatz, even, every other, exchange, exchangeable,
executive officer, exponent, fake, figurehead, fill in for,
fill-in, flounder, fluctuate, get back at, get even with, ghost,
ghostwriter, give and take, go through phases, have a go,
have tenure, hitch and hike, hold office, imitation, in rotation,
interchange, interchangeable, intermit, intermittent, isochronal,
isochronous, keep a watch, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens,
logroll, makeshift, measured, metaphor, metonymy, metronomic, mock,
next best thing, oscillate, oscillatory, other, paranymph,
pass and repass, pay back, pendulate, periodic, periodical,
permute, personnel, phony, pinch, pinch hitter, pleader,
procurator, provisional, proxy, pulsate, pulse, pulsing, re-up,
reappear, reciprocal, reciprocate, reciprocative, recur, recurrent,
recurring, reenlist, relief, relieve, reoccur, repeat, replacement,
replacing, representative, requite, reserve, reserves, respond,
retaliate, return, return the compliment, revolve, rhythmic,
ride and tie, ring the changes, ringer, roll around, rotary,
rotate, rotating, seasonal, second, second in command,
second string, secondary, seesaw, serial, serve time, shift,
shilly-shally, shuffle, shuttle, shuttlecock, sign, sign up,
sine wave, spare, spares, spell, spell off, stagger, stand-in,
steady, stopgap, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution,
succedaneum, succeed, successive, superseder, supplanter,
surrogate, swap, sway, swing, switch, symbol, synecdoche,
take turns, teeter, teeter-totter, temporary, tentative,
tergiversate, third string, time off, to-and-fro, token, totter,
trade, transpose, turn, understudy, undulant, undulate, undulatory,
up-and-down, utility, utility man, utility player, vacillate,
variant, vary, vicar, vicar general, vicarious, vice,
vice-president, vice-regent, vicegerent, wavelike, waver,
wax and wane, wheel, wheel around, wheeling, wibble-wabble, wigwag,
wobble, zigzag
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