Alternate

['ɔːltəneɪt;'ɒl-] or ['ɔltɚnət]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) do something in turns; 'We take turns on the night shift'.

(verb.) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions.

(verb.) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions.

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) serving or used in place of another; 'an alternative plan' .

(adj.) occurring by turns; first one and then the other; 'alternating feelings of love and hate' .

(adj.) every second one of a series; 'the cleaning lady comes on alternate Wednesdays'; 'jam every other day'- the White Queen .

編輯:维尔玛--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.

(a.) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.

(a.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.

(n.) That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.

(n.) A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.

(n.) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.

(v. t.) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.

戴夫校對

同義詞及近義詞：

a. [1]. Reciprocal, one after another (by turns).[2]. (Bot.) On different sides successively.

v. n. Reciprocate, act interchangeably.

v. a. Perform reciprocally or by turns.

編輯:勒罗伊

解釋/意思:

v.t. to cause to follow by turns or one after the other.—v.i. to happen by turns: to follow every other or second time—also Al′ternise.—adjs. Al′tern (Milton) alternate acting by turns; Alter′nant (geol.) in alternate layers; Alter′nate one after the other: by turns.—adv. Alter′nately.—ns. Alter′nateness Alter′nacy (rare); Alternā′tion the act of alternating: interchange: reading or singing antiphonally.—adj. Alter′native offering a choice of two things.—n. a choice between two things.—adv. Alter′natively.

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