Alternative can be another possible choice among many. (It can also mean that the two things are mutually exclusive, like when the first thing doesn't work, you look for the alternative ). That said, the terms can sometimes be used interchangeably as the meanings can overlap.

2017年1月22日 · You might want to address alternative facts, however, if they allow your opinion to remain the same. The expression “alternative facts” might seem contradictory, but it simply means competing facts. In a civil case, if there weren't alternative possible facts, the case wouldn't be at trial; it would have been decided at summary judgment.

2020年2月21日 · Definition 1 of blather is the meaning relevant to its use as an alternative to bullshit. For the second sense, you might do better with a phrase. I think that mendacious dissembling works well as a formal alternative to bullshit here. The Eleventh Collegiate defines the two components as follows:

2014年6月1日 · competing alternative behaviour : When one is trying to stop a bad habit, one can engage in a competing alternative behavior, which is an activity that inhibits the ability of the person with OCD to engage in the habit that s/he is trying to break. For example, if one is knitting, one is unable to simultaneously pull one's hair.

2014年8月1日 · The comma before or, assuming that readers understand it as a sign of equivalence rather than as a marker for incompatible alternative options, clarifies that asanas is equivalent to postures, not an alternative to it. In the example. Joshua was born weighing just 18 ounces – half a kilo or just over a pound.

2019年2月8日 · As remarkl says, in legal contexts the meaning of words has been defined by precedent. Find out how that word has been defined in the jurisdiction in question, and then use that definition instead of the adjective, e.g. as work of this nature is customarily done by other skilled contractors in the community.

2015年6月12日 · The question specifically asked if the proposed definition "always" applies to the term. By providing an alternative definition, I was showing that there exists another usage of the term. In determining the validity of an absolute, one must find, or fail to find, an exception to that absolute. I provided an exception. –

2011年4月3日 · The concept of Western culture is generally linked to the classical definition of the Western world. In this definition, Western culture is the set of literary, scientific, political, artistic and philosophical principles which set it apart from other cultural spheres. Much of this set of traditions and knowledge is collected in the Western canon.

2021年3月17日 · The wikipedia definition seems to have a similar definition. There is also an example of this in this classic episode of The Simpsons. It is also a useful metaphor in business where a process has many steps, has many people …

2011年12月9日 · A definition can be closed or open. A number is a thing that can participate in arithmetic. A number is an integer, complex, or real. The first is open because we might discover new instances like octonions or surreals. The second is closed because, though infinite, it won't expand as our knowledge expands.