alternated 的 4 个定义
al·ter·nat·ed, al·ter·nat·ing.
- to interchange repeatedly and regularly with one another in time or place; rotate: Day alternates with night.
- to change back and forth between conditions, states, actions, etc.: He alternates between hope and despair.
- to take turns: My sister and I alternated in doing the dishes.
- (5)
al·ter·nat·ed, al·ter·nat·ing.
- to perform or do in succession or one after another: to alternate comedy acts; to alternate jogging and walking.
- to interchange successively or regularly: to alternate hot and cold compresses.
- being in a constant state of succession or rotation; interchanged repeatedly one for another: Winter and summer are alternate seasons.
- reciprocal; mutual: alternate acts of kindness.
- every second one of a series: Read only the alternate lines.
- (6)
- a person authorized to fill the position, exercise the duties, etc., of another who is temporarily absent; substitute.
- Theater. either of two actors who take turns playing the same role.an understudy.
- alternative.
alternated 近义词
take turns, change back and forth
更多alternated例句
- The coverage will alternate between leagues each year and gives Turner the most postseason games on a network.
- DNA and RNA strands are composed of alternating phosphate and sugar molecules, but sugars “are profoundly unstable in hot spring environments,” says David Des Marais, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
- When Epic started offering alternate Fortnite payment methods that avoided Apple’s fee-taking, for instance, Apple blocked the app.
- In one macabre scene, one of Edison’s employees goes so far as to publicly electrocute a dog with alternating current.
- So that means in an alternate universe without any southpaw advantage, about 36 percent of current LHPs would be good enough to pitch in the major leagues.
- In the absence of typical classrooms and curriculums, West Africans have opted for alternate methods of learning and education.
- Then at least the American public would have been getting an alternate theory of the case about Keystone.
- Underneath, a miniature version of the bug-crazy man is revealed, himself thwacking away in an alternate dimension.
- The other two are da—meaning father—and te—an alternate spelling of ti.
- Other new admissions to the dictionary include qayaq—an alternate spelling of kayak—and thongy.
- The alternate hexameter and pentameter are, for most purposes, a more agreeable measure than the hexameter by itself.
- Should it fail, the fluid can generally be pumped out by alternate compression of the tube and the bulb.
- Mrs. Maloney sat on a stump near her daughter, and busied herself energetically with alternate nursing and painting.
- In the alternate record of the vote, death and exile appeared to be equally balanced.
- One of the most characteristic instances of these alternate winds is perhaps that afforded on the island of Jamaica.