Definisjon av alternate

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Verb

alternate - do something in turns; "We take turns on the night shift"
take turns
act, move behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people"
spell take turns working; "the workers spell every four hours"
alternate - exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
exchange give to, and receive from, one another; "Would you change places with me?"; "We have been exchanging letters for a year"
rotate plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"
alternate - go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
jump
vary, alter, change make something more diverse and varied; "Vary the menu"
alternate - reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
interchange, tack, switch, flip, flip-flop
change by reversal, reverse, turn change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern"
alternate - be an understudy or alternate for a role
understudy
memorise, memorize, con, learn commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?"

Adjective

alternate - serving or used in place of another; "an alternative plan"
alternative, substitute
secondary belonging to a lower class or rank
alternate - 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"
phytology, botany the branch of biology that studies plants
alternate - occurring by turns; first one and then the other; "alternating feelings of love and hate"
alternating
alternate - every second one of a series; "the cleaning lady comes on alternate Wednesdays"; "jam every other day"- the White Queen
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Substantiv

alternate - That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
alternate - A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
alternate - A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
alternate - A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
alternate - Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.

Verb

alternate - To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
alternate - To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
alternate - To vary by turns.

Adjektiv

alternate - 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.
alternate - 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.
alternate - Other; alternative.
alternate - Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.

OmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • alternate
    Going back and forth between two states or conditions.
  • alternate
    Every second one of a series.
  • alternate
    Being or succeeding by turns.

Adjektiv - Gradbøying

  • Positiv: alternate
  • Komparativ: more alternate
  • Superlativ: most alternate

Verb

  • Infinitiv: (to) alternate
  • Presens: alternate / alternates
  • Preteritum: alternated
  • Perfektum: (have) alternated

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