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  • English Word Alternate Definition That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
  • English Word Alternate Definition A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
  • English Word Alternate Definition A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
  • English Word Alternate Definition To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
  • English Word Alternate Definition To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
  • English Word Alternate Definition To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
  • English Word Alternated Definition of Alternate
  • English Word Alternately Definition In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
  • English Word Alternately Definition By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.
  • English Word Alternateness Definition The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
  • English Word Alternating Definition of Alternate
  • English Word Alternation Definition The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.
  • English Word Alternation Definition Permutation.
  • English Word Alternation Definition The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
  • English Word Alternative Definition Offering a choice of two things.
  • English Word Alternative Definition Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
  • English Word Alternative Definition Alternate; reciprocal.
  • English Word Alternative Definition An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left.
  • English Word Alternative Definition Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives.
  • English Word Alternative Definition The course of action or the thing offered in place of another.
  • English Word Alternative Definition A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among.
  • English Word Alternatively Definition In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.
  • English Word Alternativeness Definition The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
  • English Word Alternity Definition Succession by turns; alternation.
  • English Word Althaea Definition Alt. of Althea
  • English Word Althea Definition A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.
  • English Word Althea Definition An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family.
  • English Word Altheine Definition Asparagine.
  • English Word Altho Definition Although.
  • English Word Althorn Definition An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn.