Alternative
Meanings and phrases
alternative
- serving or used in place of another; alternate; substitute
- necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities
- pertaining to unconventional choices
alternative
- one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; option; choice
n.
- a method of childbirth that avoids intrusive high-tech medicine in favor of more natural and homely settings; alternative birthing
n.
- a method of childbirth that avoids intrusive high-tech medicine in favor of more natural and homely settings; alternative birth
n.
- energy derived from sources that do not use up natural resources or harm the environment
- Part of SECMOL's work is to develop techniques that use alternative energy sources.
- In addition, it includes companies from emerging sectors, such as alternative energy.
- Berger is a long-time supporter of alternative energy solutions to global environmental problems.
n.
- the practice of medicine without the use of drugs; may involve herbal medicines or self-awareness or biofeedback or acupuncture
- Examples of alternative medicine degrees include:
- Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine.
- This has been used in complementary and alternative medicine.
n.
- a pleading that alleges facts so separate that it is difficult to determine which facts the person intends to rely on; pleading in the alternative
n.
- a pleading that alleges facts so separate that it is difficult to determine which facts the person intends to rely on; alternative pleading
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- It's airing an alternative rock format known as 99X.
- is a single by Australian alternative rock band TISM.
- In 1995, though, WSBG began to lean alternative rock.
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- is a single by Australian alternative rock band TISM.
- Loudspeakers formed in 2009 as an alternative rock band.
- He was the lead singer of the alternative rock band Legião Urbana.
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- An alternative name for the ACC is the West Wind Drift.
- An alternative name is Palmira-Buga Fault.
- The alternative name was "pitcoal", because it came from mines.
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- As alternative music changed, Rock City changed with it.
- Jazz, classical, and alternative music styles are offered.
- Double J is aimed at over-30s alternative music listeners.
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- It is also used as an alternative route for the A19 and A179.
- The alternative route continues as the T1 Road in Zambia towards Lusaka.
- It is used as an alternative route to Port-of-Spain; Trinidad's capital city.
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- There is no alternative but to take everything.
- The Ministry has no alternative but to comply.
- I see no alternative, no other hope for you."
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- Dirty (song) "Dirty" is a song by American alternative metal band Sevendust.
- Their sound has been described as alternative metal, melodic metalcore or post-hardcore.
- Outside (Staind song) "Outside" is a song by the American alternative metal band Staind.
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- The Official Version The Official Version is an alternative version of D.I.T.C.
- The masculine determined plural suffix, יא- "-ayyâ", has an alternative version, "-ê".
- An alternative version is that the brick house replaced an older farm on the site in 1751.
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- It is also known by the alternative title of Footlights.
- It is also known by the alternative title of Happy Family.
- It was also known by the alternative title of The Last Port.
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- An alternative method is agroinfiltration.
- The PGGRC is an alternative method of addressing agricultural emissions.
- An alternative method is to maintain the SI second, but divide it into different forms.
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- There are two known isoforms caused by alternative splicing.
- These two alternatives are both made by alternative splicing.
- The FAM71E1 gene produces two isoforms from alternative splicing.
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- Some cosmologists think that string theory and brane cosmology will provide an alternative to inflation.
- They also had to provide an alternative path for excess intake air during engine throttling or shutdowns.
- Tit-Bits provide an alternative to the sometimes demoralizing experience of remedying the loss of a breast.
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- Sylvester, left with no other alternative, begrudgingly eats the bird seed.
- The other alternative considered by the Steering Committee was an opening span bridge.
- The Condorcet winner is the one that would win every two-way contest against every other alternative.
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- Vijja (IAST: Vijjā) is known by several alternative names.
- Because of this, several alternative names have been proposed.
- There are several alternative names used for this city: , , , , .
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- reported an alternative approach for carmofur synthesis.
- An alternative approach is anaerobic fermentation, known as bokashi.
- See also parsing expression grammar as an alternative approach to grammar and parser.
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- The alternative spelling in Italian and German is Mirco.
- Herodion Herodion is an alternative spelling of Herodium.
- Artin Artin with alternative spelling of Arteen may refer to
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- Sympathy, is a Canadian indie rock and alternative country musician.
- Lost Dakotas Lost Dakotas was a Canadian alternative country band in the 1990s.
- He is a son of alternative country artist Steve Earle and is named after Townes Van Zandt.
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- Other alternative methods of ranking include listing by total medals.
- When there are alternative methods for descent, including free drop and descent on the shotline.
- Over time the surviving pests become resistant, leading researchers to look at alternative methods.
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- 23,000 crores, Delhi Government had to come up with a fast and viable alternative.
- His steady hand did much to establish Sadler's Wells as a viable alternative to Covent Garden.
- Adhesives are the only viable alternative for joining CRFPs to steel, aluminum and other materials.
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- An alternative explanation is "graphical optical black out."
- An alternative explanation is that it was an exploratory mine adit.
- An alternative explanation of the red fox's gains involves the gray wolf.
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- As an HISD facility it began as an alternative school.
- Alper later attended an alternative school in Highland Park.
- It was the first alternative school for grade 7 and 8 students.
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- The name Djämes Braun is an alternative way of writing James Brown.
- They can thus be used as an alternative way to determine the mass of candidate black holes.
- From Kuantan, it is accessible via Jalan Abu Bakar and is an alternative way to the royal town of Pekan.
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- "Riding Your Ghost" became their first single on alternative radio.
- "Paddling Out" was sent to alternative radio in the United States on 27 March 2012.
- Columbia aimed the release for the jazz market but also for college and alternative radio stations.
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- 'Stein' is an alternative form of the surname 'Steven'.
- An alternative form of lottery fraud.
- Similarly, in verbs with present stems in "-i-", the ending "-ijo" has a shorter alternative form "-e".
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- Mitchell is the lead vocalist of alternative rock group, Jebediah.
- Kosmikud Kosmikud are an Estonian alternative rock group founded in 1999.
- Unwell "Unwell" is a song by American alternative rock group Matchbox Twenty.
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- However, it developed an alternative theory of value and distribution.
- An alternative theory says that the land was leased from the archdeacon.
- An alternative theory is that it refers to another smaller and rounder hill.
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- He is also a regular contributor to the Toronto alternative weekly "NOW".
- The paper originated in December 1995 as Calgary's first alternative weekly publication.
- This earned her to be called "Sex mogul" in an article of alternative weekly "The Montreal Mirror".
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- Braide offered an African alternative to traditional evangelism.
- Electrospinning is an alternative to traditional nanoemulsions and nanoliposomes.
- Multi-jackbolt tensioner Multi-jackbolt tensioners (MJT) are an alternative to traditional bolted joints.
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- These were introduced as a cheaper alternative to gold alloys in the 1970s.
- These cards are used more often than credit cards at ATMs because it is a cheaper alternative.
- Roadside wall boxes first appeared in 1857 as a cheaper alternative to pillar boxes, especially in rural districts.
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- She was the first graduate from the alternative high school program Interact.
- Through the mid-1970s, CHS was not the only alternative high school in Ann Arbor.
- In 1997, Pinellas County School Board members committed to building an alternative high school.
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- Chapter 5 presents a case for an alternative view.
- (See Lewis 2001b for an alternative view to Harris'.)
- The visual offers an alternative view on a 70's inspired culture.
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- The Westgate Punt ferry service provides an alternative to the bridge.
- The above approach provides an alternative to that of others, such as Bowring.
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- Ethanol is also used as an alternative fuel source.
- In 2005 the city's vehicle fleet had 6,000 alternative fuel and 70 electric vehicles.
- In Germany, wind turbine blades are commercially recycled as part of an alternative fuel mix for a cement factory.
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- It serves as an alternative education senior high school.
- It serves as an alternative education, senior high school.
- This alternative education comes at lower costs than traditional public schooling.
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- It includes 18 songs by Elvis Presley, including rare alternative versions.
- Notable alternative versions include "Por ti volaré", a Spanish version with significantly modified lyrics.
- Several alternative versions of "Advance Australia Fair" have been proposed to address the exclusion of Indigenous Australians.
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- It later took the call letters KFAN, as an adult album alternative station.
- On August 26, 2013, CKUL flipped to adult album alternative as "Radio 96.5".
- The station was then branded "The Mountain" and played eclectic (or adult album alternative) music.
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- Universal unity is the only alternative to annihilation.
- Her only alternative is to withdraw Paula and take her home.
- The subtitle of issues 1 - 6 was "Camden's only alternative community magazine".
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- Dirty (song) "Dirty" is a song by American alternative metal band Sevendust.
- Outside (Staind song) "Outside" is a song by the American alternative metal band Staind.
- Digital Summer Digital Summer is an American alternative metal band from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 2006.
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- She was the first graduate from the alternative high school program Interact.
- Through the mid-1970s, CHS was not the only alternative high school in Ann Arbor.
- In 1997, Pinellas County School Board members committed to building an alternative high school.
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- Some patients require ileostomy or colostomy after this procedure as alternative means of excretion.
- Iranian mathematician Ahmad Birashk (1907-2002) proposed an alternative means of determining leap years.
- After the crash Dickens was nervous when travelling by train, and would use alternative means when available.
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- They are also interested in alternative fuels and bio-products.
- Additional work on alternative fuels would eventually need to be conducted.
- The societal benefits could be improved if more member states increase their alternative fuels share.
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- Besides that, the alternative hypothesis can be more than one hypothesis.
- Brine seeps are an alternative hypothesis; see Burgess Shale type preservation for a more thorough discussion.
- One alternative hypothesis challenging Seeley's classification was proposed by Robert T. Bakker in his 1986 book "The Dinosaur Heresies".
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- It later took the call letters KFAN, as an adult album alternative station.
- On August 26, 2013, CKUL flipped to adult album alternative as "Radio 96.5".
- The station was then branded "The Mountain" and played eclectic (or adult album alternative) music.
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- Vijja (IAST: Vijjā) is known by several alternative names.
- Because of this, several alternative names have been proposed.
- There are several alternative names used for this city: , , , , .
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- The functions of these two alternative forms of peripherin are unknown.
- One country that has developed such alternative forms of standing accommodation is Germany.
- The main alternative forms of polymerization are chain polymerization and polyaddition, both of which give addition polymers.
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- They have also been described as alternative hip hop and .
- Snoop Dogg also recorded with Damon Albarn's animated alternative hip hop group Gorillaz.
- Soul Position Soul Position is an American alternative hip hop duo hailing from Columbus, Ohio.
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- Two other national highways serve as spur (DR-5) or alternative routes (DR-4).
- At this point, there were two major alternative routes to the Mississippi River.
- There were many alternative routes available for students unable to pass the TAAS.
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- They have also been described as alternative hip hop and .
- Snoop Dogg also recorded with Damon Albarn's animated alternative hip hop group Gorillaz.
- Soul Position Soul Position is an American alternative hip hop duo hailing from Columbus, Ohio.
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- Acupuncture became the most popular alternative medicine in the US.
- Traditional healers remain a popular alternative to evidence-based medicine.
- Tiny House Movement: Tiny houses, might be the most popular alternative living style out there.
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- At this point it had already been looking for alternative sources of funding.
- The British had stocks to last over a year and had been developing alternative sources of cotton, most notably India and Egypt.
- This results in the white-eared honeyeater needing to use alternative sources of food, such as insects which are smaller or better at hiding.
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- Childhood for me then felt extraordinarily powerless, and as an artistic child who learned in alternative ways, it was hell.
- Accuracy can be improved through precise monitoring and measurement of existing GPS signals in additional or alternative ways.
- Therefore, the Government should explore alternative ways of protecting people with albinism, including options that promote social inclusion and tolerance.
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- After taking back the House in November, Ohio Rep. Marcia Fudge was mentioned as a possible alternative.
- With its complex plot twists, this episode was briefly considered as a possible alternative opener for the series.
- It also opposed a ballot initiative legalizing medicinal marijuana in Utah, but supports a possible alternative to it.
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- Street furniture, transit, and alternative media formats comprise 34 percent of total outdoor revenue in the US.
- The election was notable for being the first election that was influenced by the alternative media, such as websites, blogs and news portals.
- The term is used to contrast with alternative media which may contain content with more dissenting thought at variance with the prevailing views of mainstream sources.
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- This discovery is the divergence point for the story's alternative history.
- In the alternative history of this universe, human beings did not evolve on earth, but on Hain.
- "Elleander Morning" (Random House, 1984) is an alternative history in which World War II never happened.
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- Each trait "provides one of many alternative paths to virtue and well-being."
- There were many alternative routes available for students unable to pass the TAAS.
- The harp is also used as a central instrument by many alternative popular musicians.
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- The alternative spellings Itoh and Ito are also sometimes seen in the West.
- Common alternative spellings are provided with cross-references such as "Color: "see" Colour."
- Webster chose already-existing alternative spellings "on such grounds as simplicity, analogy or etymology".