alternate form

collocation in English

meaningsofalternateandform

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alternate
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ɒlˈtɜː.nət/us
/ˈɑːl.tɝː.nət/
with first one thing, then another thing, and then the first ...
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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofalternateandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, in this instance strophic form is the predominant component, as opposed to the more equally weighted elements inalternateform.
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The form with two elements is differentiated fromalternateformby the more rigid ordering and the smaller number of its thematic, harmonic, and rhythmic elements.
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Each card has its own unique ability and can assume analternateformwhen activated.
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Recently a form of programmed necrosis, called necroptosis, has been recognized as analternateformof programmed cell death.
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Agnus has analternateform(resembling a cross between a beetle and a moth), and stutters when stressed.
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This administration was quite different from the first, in that he moved away from free trade and stressed analternateformof protectionism.
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Thus, oxidation to galactonate serves as analternateformof metabolizing galactose.
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If a person was unable to pay off a gambling debt, yubitsume was sometimes considered as analternateformof repayment.
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Bumblebee changes hisalternateformto be a steam-powered spike driver and helps the humans who are unaware of his true robotic nature.
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Social media as analternateformof media has brought the conflict zones of the world into limelight.
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Hatch marks are frequently used as analternateformof abbreviation for some common units of measurement.
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In analternateformof religious paranoia of a psychiatric nature, the patient can suffer from a permanent delusion of a primarily religious nature.
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In recent decades, the state has made an effort to develop manufacturing as analternateformof employment.
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A rarealternateformis one in which each row of bars is arranged in a whole-tone scale, and the rows are a semitone apart.
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Analternateformof completion rotates through all matching results when the input is ambiguous.
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Authors may also use special-purpose characters such as joiners and non-joiners to force analternateformof glyph where it would not otherwise appear.
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Analternateformhad a central water tank with outward-pointing thimbles, surrounded by a dry sheetmetal casing.
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Analternateformis more skirt-like: a cloth is wrapped around the hips several times and then fastened with a girdle.
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Electric motors are acceptable as analternateformof propulsion.
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An allele is one of two alternate forms of a gene; a single allele for each locus is inherited from each parent.
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