Alternate

Etymology
From alternare:, alternus:, from alter:. See altern:, alter:.

Pronunciation

 * Adjective, noun
 * Verb
 * Verb
 * Verb
 * Verb

Adjective

 * 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. -Alexander Pope
 * 1)  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.
 * the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
 * 1) 🇺🇸 Other or alternative.
 * 2)  Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. --Gray.

Noun

 * 1) That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
 * Grateful alternates of substantial. -Matthew Prior
 * 1) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
 * 2)  A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
 * 3) 🇺🇸 A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
 * 4)  Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.

Verb

 * 1)  To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
 * 2)  To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time;—followed by with.
 * The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
 * 1)  To vary by turns.
 * ''The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.

Thesaurus
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

Adjective

 * Bulgarian: редуващ се
 * Czech:
 * Estonian: vahelduv


 * Finnish:
 * Spanish: alterno
 * Swedish: växlande, omväxlande, alternerande


 * Czech:


 * Swedish: varannan (=every second; every other)


 * Czech: alternativní,
 * French: ,


 * Spanish: alterno
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:

Noun

 * Czech:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Spanish: sustituta, sustituto


 * Swedish: vikarie (replacing as a workman), ersättare (replacing as a member of a committee, board, etc.)

Verb

 * Bulgarian: редувам се
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: střídat se
 * German: alternieren


 * Japanese: 交替する (kōtai suru)
 * Spanish: alternar
 * Swedish: växla, alternera


 * Bulgarian: редувам се
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: střídat se
 * German: alternieren


 * Japanese: 交替する (kōtai suru)
 * Spanish: alternar
 * Swedish: växla, följa (på varandra, i tur)


 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * French:


 * German: alternieren
 * Swedish: växla

Derived terms

 * alternate allegation
 * alternate angles
 * alternate generation
 * alternately
 * alternation

Adjective

 * 1) Feminine plural form of alternato

Anagrams

 * alterante