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Alternately vs Pattycake - What's the difference?

alternately | pattycake |

As an adverb alternately

is in reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

As a noun pattycake is

(games) a children's game in which two people alternately clap their own and each other's hands.

alternately

English

Adverb

(-)
  • In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
  • (mathematics) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.

    • pattycake

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (games) A children's game in which two people alternately clap their own and each other's hands.

    • Synonyms

    * pat-a-cake (UK)

    Usage notes

    * In the UK it is often accompanied by the nursery rhyme .