NOUN
  • Definition - That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
  • Definition - A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
  • Definition - A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
  • Definition - A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
  • Definition - Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.
VERB
  • Definition - To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
  • Definition - To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
  • Example - The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
  • Definition - To vary by turns.
  • Example - The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
  • Definition - 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.
  • Example - The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
ADJECTIVE
  • Definition - Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly)
  • Example - alternate picking is a guitar playing technique
  • Definition - 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.
  • Example - the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
  • Definition - Other; alternative.
  • Example - He lives in an alternate universe and an alternate reality.
  • Definition - (of leaves) Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.
  • Example - Many trees have alternate leaf arrangement (e.g. birch, oak and mulberry).
Words in your word
9 Letter Words
alternate 9
8 Letter Words
alterant 8 anteater 8 tarletan 8
7 Letter Words
enteral 7 entreat 7 eternal 7 nettler 7 ratteen 7 teleran 7 ternate 7 tetanal 7
4 Letter Words
alae 4 alan 4 alar 4 alee 4 anal 4 anta 4 ante 4 area 4 earl 4 earn 4 elan 4 erne 4 etna 4 lane 4 larn 4 late 4 lean 4 lear 4 leer 4 leet 4 lent 4 nala 4 near 4 neat 4 nett 4 rale 4 rant 4 rate 4 real 4 reel 4 rent 4 rete 4 tael 4 tala 4 tale 4 tare 4 tarn 4 tart 4 tate 4 teal 4 tear 4 teat 4 teel 4 teen 4 tela 4 tele 4 tent 4 tern 4 tree 4 tret 4
3 Letter Words
aal 3 ala 3 ale 3 alt 3 ana 3 ane 3 ant 3 are 3 art 3 ate 3 att 3 ear 3 eat 3 eel 3 era 3 ere 3 ern 3 eta 3 lar 3 lat 3 lea 3 lee 3 let 3 nae 3 nee 3 net 3 ran 3 rat 3 ree 3 ret 3 tae 3 tan 3 tar 3 tat 3 tea 3 tee 3 tel 3 ten 3 tet 3
2 Letter Words
aa 2 ae 2 al 2 an 2 ar 2 at 2 el 2 en 2 er 2 et 2 la 2 na 2 ne 2 re 2 ta 2 te 2
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