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单词 every other
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every /evˈri/

adjective
  1. Each of a number or collection, all taken separately
  2. The best possible (eg every chance of winning)
ORIGIN: OE ǣfre ever, and ǣlc each

evˈerybody or evˈeryone pronoun

Every person

evˈeryday adjective

  1. Of or happening every day, daily
  2. Common or usual
  3. (esp of clothes) relating to or appropriate for weekdays, not Sunday

evˈerydayness noun

Evˈeryman noun

  1. (also without cap) the hero of an old morality play, representing mankind
  2. Everybody or anybody

evˈeryplace adverb (US)

Everywhere

evˈerything pronoun

  1. All things taken singly
  2. All
  3. The most important thing (eg money isn't everything)

evˈeryway adverb

In every way or respect

evˈerywhen, evˈerywhence or evˈerywhither adverb (all rare).

evˈerywhere adverb

In or to every place

every bit or whit

  1. The whole, all of it
  2. Quite or entirely

every here and there

All over, in various places

every last

(emphatically) every

every man Jack or every mother's son

Everyone without exception

every now and then or every now and again

At intervals, periodically

every other

Every second or alternate

every so often

At intervals or periodically

every which way (US)

  1. In every direction or by every method
  2. In disorder

have everything (informal)

To be well-endowed with possessions, attractiveness, etc

other /udhˈər/

adjective
  1. Second
  2. Alternate
  3. Different
  4. Different from or not the same as the one in question (often with than)
  5. Not the same
  6. Remaining
  7. Additional
  8. One of two
  9. (probably) left (Spenser)
pronoun (or noun)
  1. Other one
  2. Another
  3. Each other (archaic and Scot)
adverb

Otherwise (with than)

ORIGIN: OE ōther; cf Ger ander, L alter

othˈerness noun

othˈerwhere adverb (archaic and poetic)

Elsewhere

othˈerwhile or othˈerwhiles adverb (archaic or poetic)

  1. At other times
  2. Sometimes

othˈerwise adverb

  1. In another way or manner
  2. By other causes
  3. In other respects
  4. Under other conditions
adjective

Different

conjunction
  1. Else
  2. Under other conditions

othˈer-directed adjective (sociology)

Guided by standards set for one by external influences

other ranks plural noun

Members of the armed services not holding commissions

othˈerworld noun

A world other than, better than or beyond this (also adjective)

othˈerworldˈish adjective

otherworldˈliness noun

otherworldˈly adjective

Concerned with the world to come, or with the world of the imagination, to the exclusion of practical interests

every other

Each alternate

in other words

To put it in a different way

or otherwise

Or the opposite, as in the efficiency or otherwise of the staff

other things being equal

Associated circumstances being unchanged

rather…than otherwise

Rather than not

someone, something, somewhere, etc or other

An undefined person, thing, place, etc

the other (informal)

Sexual relations

the other day, etc

On an unspecified day, etc, not long past

the other man or woman (informal)

A person who is having an affair with someone who is married or in a long-term relationship

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