ALL meanings of alternately
al·ter·nate
A a - adverb alternately in an alternating sequence or position 3
- verb without object alternately to interchange repeatedly and regularly with one another in time or place; rotate (usually followed by with): Day alternates with night. 1
- verb without object alternately to change back and forth between conditions, states, actions, etc.: He alternates between hope and despair. 1
- verb without object alternately to take turns: My sister and I alternated in doing the dishes. 1
- verb without object alternately Electricity. to reverse direction or sign periodically. 1
- verb without object alternately Linguistics. to occur as a variant in alternation with another form. 1
- verb with object alternately to perform or do in succession or one after another: to alternate comedy acts; to alternate jogging and walking. 1
- verb with object alternately to interchange successively or regularly: to alternate hot and cold compresses. 1
- adjective alternately being in a constant state of succession or rotation; interchanged repeatedly one for another: Winter and summer are alternate seasons. 1
- adjective alternately reciprocal; mutual: alternate acts of kindness. 1
- adjective alternately every second one of a series: Read only the alternate lines. 1
- adjective alternately constituting an alternative: The alternate route is more scenic. 1
- adjective alternately alternative (defs 4, 6). 1
- adjective alternately Botany. placed singly at different heights on the axis, on each side in succession, or at definite angular distances from one another, as leaves. opposite to the intervals between other organs: petals alternate with sepals. 1
- noun alternately a person authorized to fill the position, exercise the duties, etc., of another who is temporarily absent; substitute. 1
- noun alternately Theater. either of two actors who take turns playing the same role. an understudy. 1
- abbreviation ALTERNATELY alternative. 1
- noun alternately In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order. 1
- adverb alternately by turns 1
- abbreviation ALTERNATELY alternatively 1
- adverb alternately (mathematics) By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent. 0
- adverb alternately (proscribed) alternatively. 0