Afters vs Alters - What's the difference?
afters | alters |
(British, informal) dessert
(informal) The festivities held after a wedding meal.
(British, Irish, informal, sport) fighting or arguing off the ball or when play has stopped
*2010 David Lewis
*:42-2: From the other end Strauss has a bit of afters with Morne Morkel after yet another bouncer raps him on the gloves.
*2012
*:Clarke was dismissed in the sixty-seventh minute ... for overly enthusiastic afters with one of the Wexford players.
(alter)
To change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
As a noun afters
is dessert.As a verb alters is
third-person singular of alter.afters
English
Noun
(-)- What are we having for afters , Mum? I really want ice cream...
- To keep costs down at our wedding, we only had family at the banquet, but invited all our friends to the afters .
South Africa v England - as it happened: Proteas rip into top order as tourists flounderDaily Mail (16 January 2010):
Nine-man Harps crushed in WexfordDonegal News (12 May 2012):
Anagrams
*alters
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----alter
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Alternative forms
* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)
