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alternate 音标拼音: ['ɔltɚnət] ['ɔltɚn ,et] a. 交互的,轮流的
vt.
vi. 轮流,(使)交替 交互的,轮流的轮流,(使)交替 alternate替用路径
alternate交替; 替代 alternate替用 交替 alternate adj 1: every second one of a series; " the cleaning lady comes on alternate Wednesdays"; " jam every other day"- the White Queen 2: serving or used in place of another; " an alternative plan" [ synonym: { alternate}, { alternative}, { substitute}] 3: occurring by turns; first one and then the other; " alternating feelings of love and hate" [ synonym: { alternate( a)}, { alternating( a)}] 4: 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}] n 1: someone who takes the place of another person [ synonym: { surrogate}, { alternate}, { replacement}] v 1: go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions [ synonym: { alternate}, { jump}] 2: exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions 3: be an understudy or alternate for a role [ synonym: { understudy}, { alternate}] 4: reverse ( a direction, attitude, or course of action) [ synonym: { interchange}, { tack}, { switch}, { alternate}, { flip}, { flip- flop}] 5: do something in turns; " We take turns on the night shift" [ synonym: { alternate}, { take turns}] Alternate \ Al* ter" nate\ (?; 277), a. [ L. alternatus, p. p. of alternate, fr. alternus. See { Altern}, { Alter}.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] And bid alternate passions fall and rise. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 2. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Bot.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. -- Gray. [ 1913 Webster] { Alternate alligation}. See { Alligation}. { Alternate angles} ( Geom.), the internal and angles made by two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. It the parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line EF, the angles AGH, GHD, as also the angles BGH and GHC, are called alternate angles. { Alternate generation}. ( Biol.) See under { Generation}. [ 1913 Webster]
Alternate \ Al" ter* nate\ (?; 277), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Alternated}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Alternating}.] [ L. alternatus, p. p. of alternare. See { Altern}.] To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly. [ 1913 Webster] The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil. -- Grew. [ 1913 Webster]
Alternate \ Al" ter* nate\, v. i. 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] Rage, shame, and grief alternate in his breast. -- J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster] Different species alternating with each other. -- Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains. [ 1913 Webster]
Alternate \ Al* ter" nate\ (?; 277), n. 1. That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] Grateful alternates of substantial. -- Prior. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Math.) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means. [ 1913 Webster] 232 Moby Thesaurus words for " alternate": 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 |
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