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[ adjective ] every second one of a series
Synonyms Examples "the cleaning lady comes on alternate Wednesdays" "jam every other day"- the White Queen Used in print (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)In_addition to the rich soil they benefit by feedings of manure water every_other week , diluted to the color of weak tea . (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)Other herpetologists have ascertained that in the northern United_States the prairie_rattlesnake may_not give first birth until it is four or even five years old , and that the young may be_born every_other year , rather_than annually . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Thus every part and plane of the picture keeps changing place in relative depth with every_other part and plane ; and it is as if the only stable relation left among the different parts of the picture is the ambivalent and ambiguous one that each has with the surface . Related terms |
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