Laters vs Alters - What's the difference?
laters | alters |
(slang) see you later; an expression used at parting.
* 2001, Anna Maxted, Getting Over It [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=658ZQCdB-e4C&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&sig=QA1HWuIr72BLnEhEh_2n8VhPwD0]:
* 2004, J J Connolly, Layer Cake [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=moH7-dVMlLcC&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&sig=C8ip3JP1HZSFuqfBjRDvXJEYmFM]:
* 2004, Thomas Neradin, Last Train [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=-wcHR-WlhXkC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&sig=4_asKYcTxPOHVinOI5NvJ_9LEMY]:
(alter)
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.
Alters is a anagram of laters.
As an interjection laters
is see you later; an expression used at parting.As a verb alters is
third-person singular of alter.laters
English
Interjection
(en-interj)!- But all she says is “Ring us if you want to go out this week. Laters !” and puts the phone down.
- ‘Shanks,’ says Trevor into his mobile, ‘we just gone down a snake. I’ll see ya tomorrow, laters .’
- You know where the money is and how much. Tell him the usual. Yep. Laters .
Anagrams
* ----alters
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----alter
English
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)