alternate
Meaning of alternate
- occur in turn repeatedly.
bouts of depression alternate with periods of elation
- every other; every second.
she was asked to attend on alternate days
- another term for alternative.
a novel set in an alternate universe
- a person who acts as a deputy or substitute.
he shall be entitled to exercise the vote of the director for whom he is an alternate
early 16th century (earlier (late Middle English) as alternation ): from Latin alternat- ‘done by turns’, from alternare, from alternus ‘every other’, from alter ‘other’.
Information about alternate
- The plural form of alternate is: alternates.
- Languages in which alternate is used:
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Hyphenation of alternate
al-ter-nate
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- alternate is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
alternate synonyms
Meaning alternative:
Meaning alternating:
Meaning surrogate:
Meaning jump:
Meaning understudy:
Meaning interchange:
interchange, tack, switch, flip
Meaning pass to each member of a group in a regularly recurring order:
Meaning vary or fluctuate between two states, limits, opinions, etc:
Meaning rise and fall irregularly in number or amount:
Meaning denoting a person or thing that is different or distinct from one already mentioned or known about:
Meaning used to refer to an additional person or thing of the same type as one already mentioned or known about; one more; a further:
Meaning constituting number two in a sequence; coming after the first in time or order; 2nd:
Meaning not the same as another or each other; unlike in nature, form, or quality:
Meaning able to be done or achieved:
Meaning a person or thing acting or serving in place of another:
Meaning a person who is appointed to undertake the duties of a superior in the superior's absence:
Meaning a feeling of reassurance and relaxation following release from anxiety or distress:
Meaning the authority to represent someone else, especially in voting:
Meaning put something on top of or in front of (something), especially in order to protect or conceal it:
Meaning readiness for duty or immediate deployment:
Meaning a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action:
Meaning retain for future use:
Meaning help or support:
Meaning providing supplementary or additional help and support:
Meaning an alternative plan that may be used in an emergency:
Translation of alternate
- French: alterner, alterne, intermittent, alternatif, alterné
- Italian: avvicendare, alternare, alterno, intermittente, alternato
- Spanish: alternar, alterno, alterna, alternativa, alternativo, intermitente
- German: abwechseln, abwechselnd
- Portuguese: alternar
Anagrams of alternate
Words that rhyme with alternate
Nate, Alphanate, Banate, Bromanate, Depanate, Italianate, Lomanate, Plasmanate, Thiophanate, acetylglucopyranosylisothiocyanate, acetylphenylisothiocyanate, acetyltryptophanate, adamantylisocyanate, aldermanate, allophanate, alloxanate, allylisothiocyanate, allylthiocyanate, aminobenzylpenicilianate, aminoethylthiocyanate, aminopenicillanate, amoscanate, anate, applanate, azidophenylisothiocyanate, banate, benzoylisothiocyanate, benzylisothiocyanate, benzylthiocyanate, biphenyldiisocyanate, biphenylisothiocyanate, bisthiocyanate, bitoscanate, bromoallylisothiocyanate, bromoallylthiocyanate, bromobenzylisothiocyanate, bromopenicillanate, bromophenylisocyanate, bromophenylisothiocyanate, butenylisothiocyanate, butylcyanate, butylisothiocyanate, calpanate, cephalosporanate, chlorobenzylthiocyanate, chloroethylisocyanate, chloromethylthiocyanate, chlorophenylisothiocyanate, chlorophenylthiocyanate, chlorosulfonylisocyanate