1. • noun - someone who takes the place of another person
   • verb - go back and forth
   • verb - exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
   • verb - be an understudy or alternate for a role
   • verb - reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
   • verb - do something in turns
   • adj - every second one of a series
   • adj - serving or used in place of another
   • adj - occurring by turns
   • adj - of leaves and branches etc
2. • To occur in successive turns: showers alternating with sunshine.
   • To pass back and forth from one state, action, or place to another: alternated between happiness and depression.
   • To do or execute by turns.
   • To cause to follow in turns; interchange regularly.
   • See Usage Note at alternative.
   • Designating or relating to every other one of a series: alternate lines.
   • Serving or used in place of another; substitute: an alternate plan.
   • Botany.
   • Arranged singly at each node, as leaves or buds on a stem.
   • Arranged regularly between other parts, as stamens between petals.
   • A person acting in the place of another; a substitute.
   • An alternative.

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