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Alter vs Arter - What's the difference?

alter | arter |

As a verb alter

is to change the form or structure of.

As a preposition arter is

eye dialect of after.

alter

English

Alternative forms

* altre (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To change the form or structure of.
  • * Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
    • My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
  • * Shakespeare
    • No power in Venice can alter a decree.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
  • 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.
    • (Milton)

    Derived terms

    * alterer * alterability * alterative * alterable * alterably

    Related terms

    * alteration * alternate * alternative

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    arter

    English

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • * 1861 , , chapter 3,
    • His right name was Compeyson; and that's the man, dear boy, what you see me a-pounding in the ditch, according to what you truly told your comrade arter I was gone last night.
  • * Id., chapter 39,
    • It was the money left me, and the gains of the first few year wot I sent home to Mr. Jaggers - all for you - when he first come arter you, agreeable to my letter.
  • * 2000 , Alexander Kent, Colours Aloft! , McBooks Press, ISBN 0935526722, page 115,
    • "Is he asleep at last?"...
    "Aye, sir. So 'e should, arter what I put in 'is Madeira!"

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