| alternate | | |
| n. (person) | 1. alternate, replacement, surrogate | someone who takes the place of another person. |
| ~ backup man, fill-in, reliever, stand-in, backup, substitute, relief | someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult).; "the star had a stand-in for dangerous scenes"; "we need extra employees for summer fill-ins" |
| v. (change) | 2. alternate, jump | go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions. |
| ~ vary, alter, change | become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season" |
| v. (social) | 3. alternate | exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions. |
| ~ exchange | hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent.; "exchange prisoners"; "exchange employees between branches of the company" |
| ~ rotate | exchange on a regular basis.; "We rotate the lead soprano every night" |
| v. (cognition) | 4. alternate, understudy | be an understudy or alternate for a role. |
| ~ memorise, memorize, con, learn | commit to memory; learn by heart.; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" |
| v. (change) | 5. alternate, flip, flip-flop, interchange, switch, tack | reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action). |
| ~ change by reversal, reverse, turn | change to the contrary.; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern" |
| v. (change) | 6. alternate, take turns | do something in turns.; "We take turns on the night shift" |
| ~ spell | take turns working.; "the workers spell every four hours" |
| ~ act, move | perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).; "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" |
| adj. | 7. alternate | every second one of a series.; "the cleaning lady comes on alternate Wednesdays"; "jam every other day" |
| ~ cyclical, cyclic | recurring in cycles. |
| adj. | 8. alternate, alternative, substitute | serving or used in place of another.; "an alternative plan" |
| ~ secondary | being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate.; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams" |
| adj. | 9. alternate, alternating | occurring by turns; first one and then the other.; "alternating feelings of love and hate" |
| ~ cyclical, cyclic | recurring in cycles. |
| adj. | 10. alternate | 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" |
| ~ phytology, botany | the branch of biology that studies plants. |
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