Alternatively vs Alter - What's the difference?
alternatively | alter |
in an alternative way
* 1998 , Marie D. Hoff (editor), Sustainable Community Development , page 99:
* 2001 , Hans-Peter Martin, Is Globalization a Trap?'', published in ''Keys to the 21st Century (edited by Jérôme Bindé) on page 350:
* 2003 , Torunn Kjølner and Janek Szatkowski, Dramaturgy in Building Multimedia Performances'', published in ''Production methods: behind the scenes of virtual inhabited 3D worlds: Volume 1 (edited by Kim Halskov Madsen), on page 127:
* 2005 , Graham Meltzer, Sustainable Community: Learning from the Cohousing Model , page 3:
(conjunctive) (Used to link a pair of possibilities)
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 an adverb alternatively
is in an alternative way.As an adjective alter is
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Adverb
(-)- Observers should keep in mind that these efforts at living alternatively are not easily undertaken; indeed, if they were, more people would be doing what they do.
- Thus, we are creating a new class struggle between those who live within the social system and those who are marginalized or wish to live alternatively .
- Devising obviously asks for what we understand as general creativity, like the ability to take an initiative, to invent, to think alternatively , to associate interestingly, to create metaphors and images.
- Most people living alternatively have strong pro-environmental values and, unlike many 'greens' in mainstream society, are generally able to apply their values in day-to-day life.
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)