Alternate
verb
To occur, change, or go, one after another or back and forth.
Day and night alternate typically
Often appears as...
- alternate plans
- alternate solution
adjective
Every other; every second.
He visits his parents every alternate weekend
Often appears as...
- alternate days
- alternate weeks
noun
A person or thing that serves in place of another.
She was chosen as the alternate in case the speaker fell ill
Often appears as...
- alternate plan
- alternate route
adjective
Using or expressed in either of two alternatives.
The software offers an alternate method of control
Often appears as...
- alternate method
- alternate solution
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To occur, change, or go, one after another or back and forth.
Day and night alternate typically
Often appears as...
- alternate plans
- alternate solution
adjective
Every other; every second.
He visits his parents every alternate weekend
Often appears as...
- alternate days
- alternate weeks
noun
A person or thing that serves in place of another.
She was chosen as the alternate in case the speaker fell ill
Often appears as...
- alternate plan
- alternate route
adjective
Using or expressed in either of two alternatives.
The software offers an alternate method of control
Often appears as...
- alternate method
- alternate solution
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Temporal Sequence
Used when events or actions take turns, one after another, often in a regular pattern.
The traffic lights alternate between green, yellow, and red.
Pro Tip 2/3Regular Intervals
Indicates something happening at regular spaces of time or sequence.
Workouts should alternate with rest days for recovery.
Pro Tip 3/3Variety
Suggests a change or variety to maintain interest or avoid monotony.
The menu alternates between seafood and steak specials weekly.
Pro Tip 1/3Temporal Sequence
Used when events or actions take turns, one after another, often in a regular pattern.
The traffic lights alternate between green, yellow, and red.
Pro Tip 2/3Regular Intervals
Indicates something happening at regular spaces of time or sequence.
Workouts should alternate with rest days for recovery.
Pro Tip 3/3Variety
Suggests a change or variety to maintain interest or avoid monotony.
The menu alternates between seafood and steak specials weekly.
Pro Tip 1/3Temporal Sequence
Used when events or actions take turns, one after another, often in a regular pattern.
The traffic lights alternate between green, yellow, and red.
Pro Tip 2/3Regular Intervals
Indicates something happening at regular spaces of time or sequence.
Workouts should alternate with rest days for recovery.
Pro Tip 3/3Variety
Suggests a change or variety to maintain interest or avoid monotony.
The menu alternates between seafood and steak specials weekly.
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What causes antibiotic...
Other scientists are investigating alternate solutions, such as phage therapy or using vaccines to prevent infections. Most importantly, curbing the excessive and unnecessary use of antibiotics, such as for minor infections that can resolve on their own, as well as changing medical practice to prevent hospital infections,
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Impossible photography PIPE...
where you can take different pieces of reality and put it together to create alternate reality. And let me show you a simple example. Here we have three perfectly imaginable physical objects, something we all can relate to living in a three-dimensional world. But combined in a certain way,
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We don't "move on" from...
And that narrative is so appealing even to me, and I thought maybe I had gotten that, too, but I didn't. I got another chapter. And it's such a good chapter -- I love you, honey -- it's such a good chapter. But especially at the beginning, it was like an alternate universe,
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Can a Horse Really Be...
with the right character for particular jobs a little test we did today were just to show you some of the ways you might look at and measuring how a horse reacts to new and instinctively scary things the test looks deceptively simple honey and flash plus they're alternating
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
talk about the deep defunding of police it is on the local level that people know specifically like what that is and the work of pushing to have a kind of alternate set of relationships between police and communities brought into existence and so one of the things I
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Smash fear, learn...
From that point, you can then, if you want to, acquire multiple languages, alternate them so there is no interference. We can talk about that if anyone in interested. And now I love languages. So ballroom dancing, implicit versus explicit -- very important.
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How to build a fictional...
on the trillions of pages resting between those bookends. Authors of science fiction and fantasy literally build worlds. They make rules, maps, lineages, languages, cultures, universes, alternate universes within universes,
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What will humans look...
It means you can create alternate chemistries to us that could be chemistries adaptable to a very different planet that could create life and heredity. The second experiment, or the other implication of this experiment,
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Fighting war and...
in our bubblegum culture I try to expose the superficiality of war creating an alternate reality and my weapons of choice are humor and love the markets of Legos encouraged me to look to the
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The Maya myth of the...
as they battled for supremacy, re-enacting the same five struggles, while the world alternated between order and chaos with the rising of the Morning Star.
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What causes antibiotic...
Other scientists are investigating alternate solutions, such as phage therapy or using vaccines to prevent infections. Most importantly, curbing the excessive and unnecessary use of antibiotics, such as for minor infections that can resolve on their own, as well as changing medical practice to prevent hospital infections,
Video examples
Impossible photography PIPE...
where you can take different pieces of reality and put it together to create alternate reality. And let me show you a simple example. Here we have three perfectly imaginable physical objects, something we all can relate to living in a three-dimensional world. But combined in a certain way,
Video examples
We don't "move on" from...
And that narrative is so appealing even to me, and I thought maybe I had gotten that, too, but I didn't. I got another chapter. And it's such a good chapter -- I love you, honey -- it's such a good chapter. But especially at the beginning, it was like an alternate universe,
Video examples
Can a Horse Really Be...
with the right character for particular jobs a little test we did today were just to show you some of the ways you might look at and measuring how a horse reacts to new and instinctively scary things the test looks deceptively simple honey and flash plus they're alternating
Video examples
LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
talk about the deep defunding of police it is on the local level that people know specifically like what that is and the work of pushing to have a kind of alternate set of relationships between police and communities brought into existence and so one of the things I
Video examples
Smash fear, learn...
From that point, you can then, if you want to, acquire multiple languages, alternate them so there is no interference. We can talk about that if anyone in interested. And now I love languages. So ballroom dancing, implicit versus explicit -- very important.
Video examples
How to build a fictional...
on the trillions of pages resting between those bookends. Authors of science fiction and fantasy literally build worlds. They make rules, maps, lineages, languages, cultures, universes, alternate universes within universes,
Video examples
What will humans look...
It means you can create alternate chemistries to us that could be chemistries adaptable to a very different planet that could create life and heredity. The second experiment, or the other implication of this experiment,
Video examples
Fighting war and...
in our bubblegum culture I try to expose the superficiality of war creating an alternate reality and my weapons of choice are humor and love the markets of Legos encouraged me to look to the
Video examples
The Maya myth of the...
as they battled for supremacy, re-enacting the same five struggles, while the world alternated between order and chaos with the rising of the Morning Star.
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Guy Laliberte
Canadian Businessman
When you are up there, feeling infinite space, the earth looks like a fragile planet against the immense universe. We are just another fleeting species, passing by. I do believe there is life elsewhere, and we are not alone. But not having found an alternate place for now, it is crucial to take care of the one place we do have.
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Kameron Hurley
American Writer
While many alternate reality stories ask, 'What might have been?' parallel universe stories literalize the war between good and evil that plays inside each of us every day. It's what makes this type of story so perfect for many fantasy tales: we're all just a coin flip away from being entirely different people.
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Jill Scott
American Musician
I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life.
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Ryan North
Canadian Writer
As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing the 'Adventure Time' universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well.
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Toni Servillo
Italian Actor
A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.
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Arthur Herzog
American Novelist
It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.
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Wylie Dufresne
American Chef
It turns out that life in the kitchen is very similar to life on a team. Sports and kitchens are about teams. I found my alternate team sport in the kitchen.
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Vermin Supreme
American Artist
Imagination is very important to having vision and trying to find things that are different, alternate ways.
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Ezra Koenig
American Musician
Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.
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Anna Todd
American Author
Fan fictions are an alternate universe.
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Guy Laliberte
Canadian Businessman
When you are up there, feeling infinite space, the earth looks like a fragile planet against the immense universe. We are just another fleeting species, passing by. I do believe there is life elsewhere, and we are not alone. But not having found an alternate place for now, it is crucial to take care of the one place we do have.
Quote examples
Kameron Hurley
American Writer
While many alternate reality stories ask, 'What might have been?' parallel universe stories literalize the war between good and evil that plays inside each of us every day. It's what makes this type of story so perfect for many fantasy tales: we're all just a coin flip away from being entirely different people.
Quote examples
Jill Scott
American Musician
I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life.
Quote examples
Ryan North
Canadian Writer
As a kid, I loved the idea of alternate possibilities, roads not taken, that sort of thing - and I think seeing the 'Adventure Time' universe rendered by the artists in those stories will scratch that same itch really well.
Quote examples
Toni Servillo
Italian Actor
A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities.
Quote examples
Arthur Herzog
American Novelist
It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.
Quote examples
Wylie Dufresne
American Chef
It turns out that life in the kitchen is very similar to life on a team. Sports and kitchens are about teams. I found my alternate team sport in the kitchen.
Quote examples
Vermin Supreme
American Artist
Imagination is very important to having vision and trying to find things that are different, alternate ways.
Quote examples
Ezra Koenig
American Musician
Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.
Quote examples
Anna Todd
American Author
Fan fictions are an alternate universe.
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