English words for 'Alternative form of someone else.'
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adj
det
verb
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noun
- An individual's alternate personality or persona; another self.
- A very close and intimate friend.
- (law) A corporation used by a person to conduct personal business in an attempt to shield himself or herself from personal liability, and which a court may penetrate by "piercing the corporate veil" to impose liability on the person when they commit fraud or injustice.
- a very close and trusted friend who seems almost a part of yourself
adv
noun
- (writing) Ellipsis of chancery hand.
- (US, law) A court of equity; equity; a proceeding in equity.
- The type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy.
- (boxing, slang) The position of a boxer's head when under his adversary's arm.
- (historical) In the Middle Ages, a government office that produced and notarized official documents.
- The type of building that houses the offices and administration of a diocese; the offices of a diocese.
- (historical) In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity
- an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records
- a court with jurisdiction in equity
noun
- A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
- someone who takes the place of another person
- The removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more.
- The act of replacing something.
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- filling again by supplying what has been used up
- a person who follows next in order
- the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
noun
- (chiefly British) An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.
- Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis native to Sri Lanka and southern India
- Barbados gooseberry (Pereskia aculeata), an unusual cactus
- Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum (American gooseberry).
- A fruit of species Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.
- Chinese gooseberry or kiwifruit, the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia
- Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica), emblic, amla.
- Long Key locustberry or shiny locustberry (Byrsonima lucida)
- poison gooseberry (Withania somnifera)
- Katuk (Sauropus androgynus), a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable
- Jamaican gooseberry tree (Phyllanthus acuminatus), a herb-like plant
- Physalis angulata, also called balloon cherry and cutleaf groundcherry
- Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana), indigenous to South America
- Otaheite gooseberry (Phyllanthus acidus)
- currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies
- spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
noun
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (mathematics) An additive inverse.
- An antonym.
- An opponent.
- a relation of direct opposition
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
adj
- Facing in the other direction.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
- the other one of a complementary pair
- moving or facing away from each other
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- being directly across from each other; facing
- of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
adv
prep
verb
- (transitive) To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate.
- (transitive) To attribute personal characteristics to something; to personify.
- (transitive) To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
- (transitive) To portray a character (as in a play); to act.
- attribute human qualities to something
- pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
adj
noun
adj
adv
noun
- someone who takes the place of another person
- That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
- (US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
- (US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
- (mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
adj
- occurring by turns; first one and then the other
- every second one of a series
- of leaves and branches etc.; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired
- serving or used in place of another
- (US) Other; alternative.
- Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
- (heraldry) Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.
- (mathematics) 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.
- (botany, of leaves) Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
verb
- exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
- be an understudy or alternate for a role
- do something in turns
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
- (transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
- (transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.
- (intransitive) To vary by turns.
noun
- someone who takes the place of another person
- a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
- (chiefly British) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
- A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
- (US law) A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
- (computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
- A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate parent.
- (economics) An ersatz good.
- (US, politics) A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate.
- (databases) Ellipsis of surrogate key.
adj
verb
noun
- someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were their own
- a ship that is manned by pirates
- someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
- (ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
- (crime) A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
- A kind of marble in children's games.
- An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
- (by extension) One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.
verb
- copy illegally; of published material
- take arbitrarily or by force
- (intransitive) To engage in piracy.
- (transitive) To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
- (transitive, copyright law) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.
- (transitive, intransitive, Philippines) To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- (transitive, copyright law) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.
adj
noun
- (by extension) A person or object (especially when regarded as inferior) secretly exchanged for something else.
- (fantasy, science fiction) An organism which can change shape to mimic others; a shape-shifter.
- (European folklore, also figurative) In pre-modern European folklore: an infant of a magical creature that was secretly exchanged for a human infant. In British, Irish and Scandinavian mythology the exchanged infants were thought to be those of fairies, sprites or trolls; in other places, they were ascribed to demons, devils, or witches.
- (by extension, informal, rare) An infant secretly exchanged with another infant deliberately or by mistake; a swapling.
- a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
- a person of subnormal intelligence
noun
- Something which is understood as something else; an equivocation.
- A usually non-monetary exchange transaction, or series or process of exchange transactions.
- (law) Sexual harassment in which a person in a workplace implicitly or explicitly requires sexual favours in exchange for something.
- Something which is offered or asked for in exchange for something else.
- An equal or fair transaction or series of process of exchange transactions; tit for tat.
- (historical) Substitution of one drug for another.
- something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something they do or give or promise
noun
- (sometimes derogatory) A human.
- An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
- A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
- (now uncommon, religion) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
- A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
- a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
- a living being
noun
adj
det
verb
noun
- An individual's alternate personality or persona; another self.
- A very close and intimate friend.
- (law) A corporation used by a person to conduct personal business in an attempt to shield himself or herself from personal liability, and which a court may penetrate by "piercing the corporate veil" to impose liability on the person when they commit fraud or injustice.
- a very close and trusted friend who seems almost a part of yourself
noun
- A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
- someone who takes the place of another person
- The removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more.
- The act of replacing something.
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- filling again by supplying what has been used up
- a person who follows next in order
- the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
noun
- (chiefly British) An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.
- Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis native to Sri Lanka and southern India
- Barbados gooseberry (Pereskia aculeata), an unusual cactus
- Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum (American gooseberry).
- A fruit of species Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.
- Chinese gooseberry or kiwifruit, the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia
- Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica), emblic, amla.
- Long Key locustberry or shiny locustberry (Byrsonima lucida)
- poison gooseberry (Withania somnifera)
- Katuk (Sauropus androgynus), a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable
- Jamaican gooseberry tree (Phyllanthus acuminatus), a herb-like plant
- Physalis angulata, also called balloon cherry and cutleaf groundcherry
- Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana), indigenous to South America
- Otaheite gooseberry (Phyllanthus acidus)
- currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies
- spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
noun
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (mathematics) An additive inverse.
- An antonym.
- An opponent.
- a relation of direct opposition
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
- a contestant that you are matched against
- a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
adj
- Facing in the other direction.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
- characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed
- the other one of a complementary pair
- moving or facing away from each other
- altogether different in nature or quality or significance
- being directly across from each other; facing
- of leaves etc.; growing in pairs on either side of a stem
adv
prep
noun
adj
adv
noun
- someone who takes the place of another person
- That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
- (US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
- (US) A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
- (mathematics) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
adj
- occurring by turns; first one and then the other
- every second one of a series
- of leaves and branches etc.; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired
- serving or used in place of another
- (US) Other; alternative.
- Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly).
- (heraldry) Alternating; (of e.g. a pair of tinctures which a charge is coloured) succeeding in turns, or (relative to the field) counterchanged.
- (mathematics) 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.
- (botany, of leaves) Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
verb
- exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions
- be an understudy or alternate for a role
- do something in turns
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
- (transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
- (transitive, geometry) To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.
- (intransitive) To vary by turns.
noun
- someone who takes the place of another person
- a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
- (chiefly British) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
- A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
- (US law) A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
- (computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
- A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate parent.
- (economics) An ersatz good.
- (US, politics) A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate.
- (databases) Ellipsis of surrogate key.
adj
verb
noun
- someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were their own
- a ship that is manned by pirates
- someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
- (ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
- (crime) A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
- A kind of marble in children's games.
- An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
- (by extension) One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.
verb
- copy illegally; of published material
- take arbitrarily or by force
- (intransitive) To engage in piracy.
- (transitive) To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
- (transitive, copyright law) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.
- (transitive, intransitive, Philippines) To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.
- (transitive, copyright law) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.
adj
noun
- (by extension) A person or object (especially when regarded as inferior) secretly exchanged for something else.
- (fantasy, science fiction) An organism which can change shape to mimic others; a shape-shifter.
- (European folklore, also figurative) In pre-modern European folklore: an infant of a magical creature that was secretly exchanged for a human infant. In British, Irish and Scandinavian mythology the exchanged infants were thought to be those of fairies, sprites or trolls; in other places, they were ascribed to demons, devils, or witches.
- (by extension, informal, rare) An infant secretly exchanged with another infant deliberately or by mistake; a swapling.
- a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
- a person of subnormal intelligence
noun
- Something which is understood as something else; an equivocation.
- A usually non-monetary exchange transaction, or series or process of exchange transactions.
- (law) Sexual harassment in which a person in a workplace implicitly or explicitly requires sexual favours in exchange for something.
- Something which is offered or asked for in exchange for something else.
- An equal or fair transaction or series of process of exchange transactions; tit for tat.
- (historical) Substitution of one drug for another.
- something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something they do or give or promise
noun
- (sometimes derogatory) A human.
- An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
- A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
- (now uncommon, religion) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
- A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
- a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
- a living being
verb
- (transitive) To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate.
- (transitive) To attribute personal characteristics to something; to personify.
- (transitive) To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
- (transitive) To portray a character (as in a play); to act.
- attribute human qualities to something
- pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
adj
adv
noun
- (writing) Ellipsis of chancery hand.
- (US, law) A court of equity; equity; a proceeding in equity.
- The type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy.
- (boxing, slang) The position of a boxer's head when under his adversary's arm.
- (historical) In the Middle Ages, a government office that produced and notarized official documents.
- The type of building that houses the offices and administration of a diocese; the offices of a diocese.
- (historical) In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity
- an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records
- a court with jurisdiction in equity