Word Meanings - INTERVARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To alter or vary between; to change. Rush.

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• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
• ALTERNATION
  Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• ALTERNAT
  A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.
• ALTERATION
  1. The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker. 2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive
• CHANGEABLY
  In a changeable manner.
• ALTERNATENESS
  The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
• ALTERNATIVENESS
  The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
• ALTERABILITY
  The quality of being alterable; alterableness.
• ALTERABLY
  In an alterable manner.
• CHANGE
  1. To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame. Hosea. iv. 7. 2. To alter by
• ALTERNANT
  Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks.
• ALTERITY
  The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise. For outness is but the feeling of otherness rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented. Coleridge.
• ALTERNATIVE
  1. Offering a choice of two things. 2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction. 3. Alternate; reciprocal. Holland.
• ALTERATIVE
  Causing ateration. Specifically:
• ALTERABLE
  Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.
• ALTERANT
  Altering; gradually changing. Bacon.
• CHANGEABLE
  1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor. 2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk. Syn. -- Mutable; alterable;
• ALTERNITY
  Succession by turns; alternation. Sir T. Browne.
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• SUBALTERNANT
  A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• SUBALTERNATE
  1. Succeeding by turns; successive. 2. Subordinate; subaltern; inferior. All their subalternate and several kinds. Evelyn.
• COUNTERCHANGED
  Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
• COUNTERCHANGE
  1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.
• SESQUIALTEROUS
  Sesquialteral.
• HALTER
  One who halts or limps
• SUBALTERN
  Asserting only a part of what is asserted in a related proposition. Subaltern genus. See under Genus. (more info) 1. Ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior; specifically , ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as,
• INTERCHANGEABILITY
  The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.
• SALTERN
  A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.
• SUBALTERNATION
  The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.