alternate

alternate has 19 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. someone who takes the place of another person
• v.. do something in turns; "We take turns on the night shift"
• v.. go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions