Synonym: interchange, spell, switch, take turns. Antonym: consecutive. Similar words: alternative, alternatively, alternative medicine, paternal, fraternal, international, consternation, alter. Meaning: [ɔːl'tɜːnət] 
n. someone who takes the place of another person. v. 1. go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions 2. exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions 3. be an understudy or alternate for a role 4. reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) 5. do something in turns. adj. 1. every second one of a series 2. allowing a choice 3. occurring by turns; first one and then the other 4. of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired.
n. someone who takes the place of another person. v. 1. go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions 2. exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions 3. be an understudy or alternate for a role 4. reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) 5. do something in turns. adj. 1. every second one of a series 2. allowing a choice 3. occurring by turns; first one and then the other 4. of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired. 
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31. Now you just alternate layers of that mixture and eggplant.
32. Day and night alternate.
33. His mother would alternate inexplicably between kindness and cruelty.
34. The flag's stripes are wavy and alternate in color.
35. He worked alternate night and day shifts.
36. Alternate legs, kicking them as high as possible.
37. Stretch up alternate hands - even higher than yesterday!
38. She visits her parents on alternate Sundays.
39. This resonant condition permitted Mariner 10 to fly by Mercury at close range at the times of alternate perihelion passages.
40. In two cases where father and son were both working shifts they had arranged alternate shifts thus allowing uninterrupted farm work.
41. Then start adding a little bit on the alternate days.
42. But over a substantial fraction of the wake width,[www.Sentencedict.com] turbulent and non-turbulent motion alternate.
43. You'll have to alternate. One of you can use the room in the mornings, and the other in the evenings.
44. This, as you probably know by now, selects alternate needles automatically.
45. He works alternate days.
46. Meanwhile, the Scandinavian countries are bearing an alternate proposal to begin a moratorium on nuclear dumping no later than 1990.
47. Rules incorporate more traditional expertise in handling situations like bumping and alternate carrier vouchers.
48. I alternate the direction of these strokes, imitating the direction I use to apply the pastel in the first place.
49. The only easy cure is make the winding-on in alternate directions, say ten turns each way.
50. But employment in the building trade is notoriously irregular, and such artisans alternate self-employment with wage-paid work on the building sites.
51. Herwig and saxist Henderson played as a harmonizing duo, then split to alternate solos.
52. Table 8.1 gives a picture of the relative importance of these different sources of revenue in alternate years of the period 1979-87.
53. Fig 3 illustrates a typical three octave fingering of this scale, which should be played using alternate picking throughout.
54. The players alternate between the white and black pieces and draw lots to determine who plays white in today's first game.
55. Hold the bar with an alternate grip, that is one palm facing outwards and one facing inwards.
56. Also, an alternate needle pattern produces beautiful mash lace very easily.
57. The central committee was enlarged from 124 to 146 full members; no alternate members were elected.
58. One alternate juror choked with grief and accepted the water and tissues from a concerned court clerk.
59. Also, unions are free to waive daily overtime requirements and negotiate alternate schedules, such as those providing four 10-hour days.
60. But a professional narrator was hired one morning, and alternate lines of speech were recorded using the normal microphone and recorder.
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