'alternate' definitions:
Definition of 'alternate'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Every second one of a series; "the cleaning lady comes on alternate Wednesdays"; "jam every other day"- the White Queen
adjective
Serving or used in place of another; "an alternative plan" [syn: alternate, alternative, substitute]
adjective
Occurring by turns; first one and then the other; "alternating feelings of love and hate" [syn: alternate(a), alternating(a)]
adjective
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" [ant: opposite, paired]
noun
Someone who takes the place of another person [syn: surrogate, alternate, replacement]
verb
Go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions [syn: alternate, jump]
verb
Exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
verb
Be an understudy or alternate for a role [syn: understudy, alternate]
verb
Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) [syn: interchange, tack, switch, alternate, flip, flip- flop]
verb
Do something in turns; "We take turns on the night shift" [syn: alternate, take turns]
Synonyms of 'alternate'
From: Moby 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
Words containing 'alternate'
- alternately,
- alternating,
- alternation,
- alternative,
- alternatively,
- alternator,
- alternic,
- Altern base,
- Alternate generation,
- alternating current,
- alternation of generations,
- alternative birth,
- alternative birthing,
- alternative energy,
- alternative medicine,
- alternative pleading,
- pleading in the alternative,
- alternating electric current