Alternate vs Other - What's the difference?
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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.
(mathematics) 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.
(US) Other; alternative.
(botany) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.
That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
* Matthew Prior
(US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
(mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
(US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
(heraldry) Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.
To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
* Grew
To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with .
To vary by turns.
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second.
Alien.
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Different.
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(obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
* Spenser
An other one, more often rendered as another .
The other one; the second of two.
* 1699 , ,
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, title= Not the one or ones previously referred to.
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, title= Apart from; in the phrase "other than".
(obsolete) otherwise
To make into an other.
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To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
* 2007 , Christopher Emdin, City University of New York. Urban Education, Exploring the contexts of urban science classrooms :
(ethnicity, or, race) To label as "other".
* 2008 , John F. Borland, University of Connecticut, The under-representation of Black females :
(label) Or.
*, Book VII:
*:And if that I had nat had my prevy thoughtis to returne to youre love agayne as I do, I had sene as grete mysteryes as ever saw my sonne Sir Galahad other' Percivale, ' other Sir Bors.
In transitive terms the difference between alternate and other
is that alternate is to perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly while other is to label as "other".As a determiner other is
not the one or ones previously referred to.As an adverb other is
apart from; in the phrase "other than".As a conjunction other is
or.alternate
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(-)- And bid alternate passions fall and rise . -
- the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
- Hyperlinked text is displayed in alternate color in a Web browser.
- (Gray)
Noun
(en noun)- Grateful alternates of substantial.
Verb
(alternat)- The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil.
- The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
- ''The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
Derived terms
* alternate allegation * alternate angles * alternate generation * alternately * alternationSee also
* alternative * variantother
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- I get paid every other week.
- A distaff in her other hand she had.
Synonyms
* (not the one previously referred to) * (contrary to) * different, disparate * dissimilar, distinctive * distinguishable, diverse * unalike, unlike * additional, another * else, farther * furtherAntonyms
* sameDerived terms
* otherish * other rank * other sideNoun
(en noun)Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other' suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the ' other polishes it.
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Determiner
(en determiner)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
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Antonyms
* sameDerived terms
*Adverb
(-)- Other than that, I'm fine.
- It shall none other be. — Chaucer.
- If you think other . — Shakespeare.
Verb
(en verb)- In this scenario, the young lady who had spoken had been othered by her peers and her response to my question had been dismissed as invalid despite the fact that she was alright.
- [...] and Black males have not taken her seriously politically (gender); and the color of her skin has marginalized her (race and "othered " her when compared with White women, who have also worked to silence her political views.