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alter
Found in thesaurus: change, modify, alter, redact, edit, desexualize, desexualise, fix, desex, sterilise, unsex, sterilize
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alter
v.
change, modify; be changed, be modified
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Alter
Alter / Image: Feminism and Representation in New Zealand Art 1973-1993 was an exhibition curated by Tina Barton and Deborah Lawler-Dormer to mark the centennial of women's suffrage in New Zealand. It showed at City Gallery Wellington from 1 August to 21 November 1993 and Auckland City Art Gallery from 17 December 1993 to 20 February 1994.
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To alter generally means to change something, and may refer to:
- Alter (name), people named Alter
- Alter (automobile)
- Alter (crater), lunar crater
- Alter Channel, Greek TV channel
- Archbishop Alter High School, Roman Catholic high school in Kettering, Ohio
- "Alter", a song by Raven from their 1994 album Glow
- ALTER, command in older implementations of COBOL
- Alter ego, or "alter" in popular usage, a "second self"
- Alter (SQL)
- Alter (album), 2002 album by Floater
- Alter, 2006 remix album by Swiss band Knut
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alter
Verb
1. cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
(synonym) change, modify
(hyponym) awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
(cause) change
(derivation) alteration, modification, adjustment
2. make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season"
(synonym) change, vary
(hyponym) alternate, jump
3. make an alteration to; "This dress needs to be altered"
(hypernym) change, modify
(entail) sew, tailor, tailor-make
(derivation) alteration, modification, adjustment
4. insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
(synonym) interpolate, falsify
(hypernym) edit, redact
5. remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?"
(synonym) neuter, spay, castrate
(hypernym) sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
(hyponym) defeminize, defeminise
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Alter (das)
n.
age, length of time that a person or organism has been alive; length of time that an object has existed; period
älter
adj.
older, more aged, more elderly, former
alt
adj.
aged, elderly, old; being ## years old; ancient, very old, antique, archaic, from another period; earlier, past, prior, in existence for a long time; (Scottish) auld
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alter
adj.
other, different
