Difference between Flip and Alternate

What is the difference between Flip and Alternate?

Flip as a noun is a maneuver which rotates an object end-over-end. while Alternate as a noun is that which alternates with something else; vicissitude.

Flip

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A maneuver which rotates an object end-over-end. a person whom the speaker dislikes.

Part of speech: interjection

Definition: used to express annoyance, especially when the speaker has made an error.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having the quality of playfulness, or lacking seriousness of purpose. Sarcastic.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To throw (as in to turn over). To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger. To go berserk or crazy.

Example sentence: I love to dance, but the flip side is that I can't dance.

Alternate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.Other or alternative.Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. --Gray.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.A replacement of equal or greater value or function.Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time;—followed by with.To vary by turns.

Example sentence: I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

We hope you now know whether to use Flip or Alternate in your sentence.

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