alternating (verb)

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• Intransitive verb — In grammar, an intransitive verb does not take an object. In more technical terms, an intransitive verb has only one argument (its subject), and hence has a valency of one. For example, in English, the verbs sleep , complain and die , are… …   Wikipedia

• Ambitransitive verb — An ambitransitive verb is a verb that can be used both as intransitive or as transitive without requiring a morphological change. That is, the same verb form may or may not require a direct object. English has a large number of ambitransitive… …   Wikipedia

• Reflexive verb — In grammar, a reflexive verb is a verb whose semantic agent and patient (typically represented syntactically by the subject and the direct object) are the same. For example, the English verb to perjure is reflexive, since one can only perjure… …   Wikipedia

• Anticausative verb — An anticausative verb is an intransitive verb that shows an event affecting its subject, while giving no semantic or syntactic indication of the cause of the event. The single argument of the anticausative verb (its subject) is a patient, that is …   Wikipedia

• alternate — verb (alternated, alternating) –verb (i) /ˈɔltəneɪt / (say awltuhnayt), /ˈɒl / (say ol ) 1. (sometimes followed by with) to follow one another in time or place reciprocally: day and night alternate; darkness alternates with light. 2. to change… …  

• corrugate — verb ( gated; gating) Etymology: Latin corrugatus, past participle of corrugare, from com + ruga wrinkle; probably akin to Lithuanian raukas wrinkle more at rough Date: 1620 transitive verb to form or shape into wrinkles or folds or into… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• wedel — verb ski, alternating directions • Hypernyms: ↑ski • Verb Frames: Somebody s Somebody s PP * * * ˈvādəl also ˈwe intransitive verb ( ed/ ing/ s) …   Useful english dictionary

• interstratify — verb arrange rocks in alternating strata • Topics: ↑geology • Hypernyms: ↑stratify • Verb Frames: Something s something …   Useful english dictionary

• wax and wane — verb a) To progress through phases. The manifestation of such philosophy seemed to wax and wane, being the most common one time, but virtually without followers at another, apparently disappearing. b) Alternating …   Wiktionary

• interleave — verb 1》 insert interleaves between the pages of (a book).     ↘place something between the layers of. 2》 Telecommunications mix (digital signals) by alternating between them. 3》 Computing divide (memory or processing power) between a number of… …   English new terms dictionary

• rectify — verb (rectifies, rectifying, rectified) 1》 put right; correct. 2》 convert (alternating current) to direct current. 3》 Mathematics find a straight line equal in length to (a curve). Derivatives rectifiable adjective rectification noun Origin …   English new terms dictionary