• Verb (used without object)

    to interchange repeatedly and regularly with one another in time or place; rotate (usually fol. by with )
    Day alternates with night.
    to change back and forth between conditions, states, actions, etc.
    He alternates between hope and despair.
    Electricity . to reverse direction or sign periodically.
    Linguistics . to occur as a variant in alternation with another form.

    Verb (used with object)

    to perform or do in succession or one after another
    to alternate comedy acts; to alternate jogging and walking.
    to interchange successively or regularly
    to alternate hot and cold compresses.

    Adjective

    being in a constant state of succession or rotation; interchanged repeatedly one for another
    Winter and summer are alternate seasons.
    reciprocal; mutual
    alternate acts of kindness.
    every second one of a series
    Read only the alternate lines.
    constituting an alternative
    The alternate route is more scenic.
    alternative ( defs. 4, 6 ) .
    Botany .
    placed singly at different heights on the axis, on each side in succession, or at definite angular distances from one another, as leaves.
    opposite to the intervals between other organs
    petals alternate with sepals.

    Noun

    a person authorized to fill the position, exercise the duties, etc., of another who is temporarily absent; substitute.
    Theater .
    either of two actors who take turns playing the same role.
    an understudy.
    alternative.

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