Alternative vs Fringe - What's the difference?
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Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities
Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground (e.g., alternative medicine, alternative lifestyle, (alternative rock)).
Other.
alternate; reciprocal
A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , XI:
One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.
A decorative border.
A marginal or peripheral part.
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Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
The periphery of a town or city.
That part of the hair that hangs down above the eyes; bangs.
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(label) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
Non-mainstream theatre.
(label) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
Outside the mainstream.
To decorate with fringe.
To serve as a fringe.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
As nouns the difference between alternative and fringe
is that alternative is alternative while fringe is a decorative border.As an adjective fringe is
outside the mainstream.As a verb fringe is
to decorate with fringe.alternative
English
(wikipedia alternative)Adjective
(-)- an alternative proposition
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Derived terms
* alternative dispute resolution * alternative energy * alternative lifestyle * alternative medicine * alternative press * alternative voteNoun
(en noun)- ‘The cloister or a betrothed husband?’ I echoed—‘Is that the alternative destined for Miss Vernon?’
Synonyms
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English
Noun
(en noun)- the fringe of a picture
- the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance
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- He lives in the fringe of London.
- Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.
- In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe .
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- Fayne in the photograph had a fringe , hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.
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- Ingeborg knew she wasn?t ready for fringes or short hair like some of the women she?d seen, and she hoped her daughter wasn?t either.
- “No.” Astrid?s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.
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- Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).
- interference fringe
- The Fringe''; ''Edinburgh Fringe'''''; ''Adelaide '''Fringe
Synonyms
* (hair in front) forelock, bangs (US) *Derived terms
* fringe benefit * fringy * lunatic fringeAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* nonmainstreamVerb
(fring)- Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.