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"source": "Thesaurus:alternate",
"word": "counterchange"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:alternate",
"word": "checker"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:alternate",
"tags": [
"poetic",
"rare"
],
"word": "freck"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "variant"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:alternate",
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"word": "every second"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:alternate",
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"word": "every other"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra",
"text": "The most high God, in all things appertaining unto this life, for sundry wise ends alternates the disposition of good and evil.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly."
],
"links": [
[
"turn",
"turn"
],
[
"succession",
"succession"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with."
],
"links": [
[
"turn",
"turn"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To vary by turns."
],
"links": [
[
"vary",
"vary"
],
[
"turn",
"turn"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To vary by turns."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Geometry"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1932, Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter, The densities of the regular polytopes, part 2, reprinted in 1995, F. Arthur Sherk, Peter Mcmullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivić Weiss (editors), Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H. S. M. Coxeter, page 54",
"text": "This case suggests that the alternation of a polyhedron should be bounded by actual vertex figures and alternated faces. The case of the cube is in agreement with this notion, since the alternated square is nothing.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation."
],
"links": [
[
"geometry",
"geometry"
],
[
"alternation",
"alternation"
],
[
"vertices",
"vertex"
],
[
"polytope",
"polytope"
],
[
"tessellation",
"tessellation"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"geometry",
"mathematics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɒl.tə(ɹ).ˌneɪt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɔl.tɚ.neɪt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɑl.tɚ.neɪt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/En-us-alternate-noun-adj.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/En-us-alternate-verb.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:alternate",
"word": "alternate"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:alternate",
"word": "interchange"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "reduvam se",
"sense": "to perform by turns",
"word": "редувам се"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to perform by turns",
"word": "alternar"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to perform by turns",
"word": "střídat se"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to perform by turns",
"word": "vuorotella"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to perform by turns",
"word": "alternar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to perform by turns",
"word": "alternieren"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to perform by turns",
"word": "váltogat"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to perform by turns",
"word": "ailtéarnaigh"
},
{
"alt": "こうたいする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kōtai suru",
"sense": "to perform by turns",
"word": "交替する"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to perform by turns",
"word": "alternar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to perform by turns",
"word": "alternar"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to perform by turns",
"word": "alternirati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to perform by turns",
"word": "alternar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to perform by turns",
"word": "växla"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to perform by turns",
"word": "alternera"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "reduvam se",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "редувам се"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "alternar"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "střídat se"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "vuorotella"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "alternar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "abwechseln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "alternieren"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "váltakozik"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "ailtéarnaigh"
},
{
"alt": "こうたいする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kōtai suru",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "交替する"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "alternar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "alternar"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "alternirati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "alternar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "växla"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to happen, succeed, or act by turns",
"word": "följa (på varandra, i tur)"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to vary by turns",
"word": "střídat"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to vary by turns",
"word": "vuorotella"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to vary by turns",
"word": "alterner"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to vary by turns",
"word": "wechseln zwischen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to vary by turns",
"word": "alternieren"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to vary by turns",
"word": "ailtéarnaigh"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to vary by turns",
"word": "alternar"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to vary by turns",
"word": "alternirati"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to vary by turns",
"word": "växla"
}
],
"word": "alternate"
}
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