Alternate

Definition

alternate 1 /ↄ:l'tɜ:nǝt; US 'ↄ:ltǝrnǝt/ adj ၁။ (ႏွစ္ခု၊ ႏွစ္ရပ္) တစ္ခုျခား တစ္ထပ္စီ၊ တစ္ကန္႔စီရိွေသာ။ တစ္လွည့္စီျဖစ္ေသာ။ a dessert made of alternate layers of cream and fruit ❍ alternate triumph and despair. ၂။ တစ္ (ရက္၊ ပတ္၊ လ၊ ႏွစ္) ျခား။ an alternate days (eg on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, etc and not on the days in between) ❍ I visit them on alternate Sundays (ie every second Sunday). ၃။ ( esp US ) အျခားေသာ။ ကြဲျပားျခားနားေသာ။ an alternate ending/lifestyle. /'ↄ:ltǝneÇt/ v ၁။ ~ A an B/~ A with B တစ္ခုႏွင့္ တစ္ခု လွည့္၍ (စိုက္၊ သီကံုး…) သည္။ Most farmers alternate their crops. ❍ He alternated blue beads with white. ၂။ ~ (with sth ); ~ between A and B …ႏွင့္… အလွည့္က် ျဖစ္ေပၚေနသည္။ …လိုက္…လိုက္ ျဖစ္သည္။ …ႏွင့္…အၾကား လည္ေနသည္။ alternating dry and rainy days ❍ The weather alternated between rain and sunshine. ❍ Rainy days alternated with dry ones. ❍ Their work alternates between London and New York. ❏ alternating current n [U, C] ( abbr AC ) ျပန္လွန္ လွ်ပ္စီး။ Compare DIRECT CURRENT ❏ alternation /ↄ:ltǝ'neÇʃn/ n [U, C] တစ္လွည့္စီ ျဖစ္ေပၚမႈ။ the alternation of day and night. ❏ alternator /'ↄ:ltǝneÇtǝ(r)/ n ျပန္လွန္လွ်ပ္ထုတ္စက္။ ေအာ္လ္တာေနတာ။ alternate 2 / US 'ↄ:ltǝrnǝt/ n ( US ) ကိုယ္စားလွယ္။ Your alternate will have to go to that meeting.

Examples

1. [alternate with] : Wet days alternated with dry ones.
2. [alternate between] : His mood alternates between joy and despair.
3. Lay the shapes on the fabric
4. alternating the colours.
5. [alternate something with something] : The course allows students to alternate work with education.
6. She alternated blues and gospel songs throughout the evening.
7. The White House has alternated between tough talk and silence.