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Meaning of alternize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To alternate or take turns.

Examples

“From a sketch of the weather, taken at Galway, in 1789, it appears that the north-west winds were most prevalent there from January to August; that the storms and squalls from north-west, and those from south-west and south, were on an equality in number; and that the north-west and south-east winds sometimes alternized.”
“Sufficient to say that he alternized cold mutton and toddy, narration and exclamation, eating, drinking, exposition and swearing, in a way that convinced me what he asserted was true — that his domestic felicity was forever destroyed.”
“Yet I only saw him once; but that was in a téte-a-téte, alternized with a trio by my son, that lasted a whole afternoon.”
“No, Doctor, all that is required, for there to be actual ineluctable manifestations of braided given spaces, is that the spaces—the four-dimensional extensions of those spaces, Doctor—be originally laid out in the Universe in alternizing segments so that the anomalous phenomena arising from this—this malposition—at least when observed—are identical with the phenomena resulting from actual 'braided' spaces .”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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