Alternate vs. Deputy — What's the Difference?

Occur in turn repeatedly

A person who is appointed or empowered to act for another.

Every other; every second

An assistant exercising full authority in the absence of their superior and exercising equal authority in emergencies

Another term for alternative

A representative in a legislative body in certain countries.

A person who acts as a deputy or substitute

One appointed as the substitute of others, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf; a substitute in office.

To occur in a successive manner

A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas, for the safety of the miners.

To act or proceed by turns

(France) A member of the Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif.

To pass back and forth from one state, action, or place to another

(Ireland) a member of Dáil Éireann, or the title of a member of Dáil Éireann. (Normally capitalised in both cases).

(Electricity) To reverse direction at regular intervals in a circuit.

(US) a law enforcement officer who works for the county sheriff's office; a deputy sheriff or sheriff's deputy; the entry level rank in such an agency.

To do or execute by turns.

To deputise

To cause to alternate

One appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.

Happening or following in turns; succeeding each other continuously

A member of the Chamber of Deputies.

Designating or relating to every other one of a series

Someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies

Serving or used in place of another; substitute

An assistant with power to act when his superior is absent

Arranged singly at each node, as leaves or buds on different sides of a stem.

A member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France)

Arranged regularly between other parts, as stamens between petals.

A person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others

A person acting in the place of another; a substitute.

An alternative.

Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly)

(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.

(US) Other; alternative.

Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence

That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.

(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.

(US) A replacement of equal or greater value or function.

(heraldry) Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.

(transitive) To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.

(intransitive) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.

(intransitive) To vary by turns.

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.

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; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.

Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence.

That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.

A substitute; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.

A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.

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; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.

To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.

Someone who takes the place of another person

Go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions

Exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions

Be an understudy or alternate for a role

Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)

Do something in turns;

Every second one of a series;

Allowing a choice;

Occurring by turns; first one and then the other;

Of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired;