Crossword-Solution: ALTERNATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alternate | 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. |
| Alternate | 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. |
| Alternate | a. | Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. |
| Alternate | n. | That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. |
| Alternate | n. | A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty. |
| Alternate | n. | A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means. |
| Alternate | v. t. | To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly. |
| Alternate | 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. |
| Alternate | v. i. | To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with ALTERNATE (5)
With him dwelt his dark-eyed daughter, Wayward as the Minnehaha, With her moods of shade and sunshine, Eyes that smiled and frowned alternate, Feet as rapid as the river, Tresses flowing like the water, And as musical a laughter: And he named her from the river, From the water-fall he named her, Minnehaha, Laughing Water.
Those old {dinosaur} parts carried terrific angular momentum; the combination of a misaligned spindle or worn bearings and stick-slip interactions with the floor could cause them to `walk' across a room, lurching alternate corners forward a couple of millimeters at a time.
Completion of all five Founding Fathers projects (i.e., retrievability and searchability of all of the documents by proper names, alternate spellings, or varieties of subjects) will provide one of the richest sources of this size for the history of the United States in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
The body of the Woggle-Bug was rather flat, and judging from what could be seen of it was of a glistening dark brown color upon the back, while the front was striped with alternate bands of light brown and white, blending together at the edges.
Alternate routing bypasses trouble spots, self diagnostics help the Network doctors, priority and preferences are handled according to a clear set of rules." Spook waved his hands to reinforce his case.
Quotes with ALTERNATE (3)
I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.
The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable. Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the tru…
You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less ce…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).