Definition: 1. To become different; to make somebody or something different. 2. Cause to change; cause a transformation. 3. Make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.
Use 'alter' in a sentence:
1. Computers allow the plans to be fine-tuned and to be altered quickly.
2. The current division of labour between workers and management will alter.
3. He is unlikely to alter his game plan.
4. The altered landscape looks unnatural and weird.
5. Also recognize the stressful situations that you cannot alter at this time.
6. Life is the garment we continually alter, but which never seems to fit.
7. How will you alter your word choice to increase your subscription rate?
8. As times alter , men's affections change.
9. We can't do much to alter sedentary life-styles, but we can provide consumers with great-tasting products, low in salt, sugar and fat.
10. It would be sacrilege to alter the composer's original markings.
11. They have never altered their programmes by a single day.
12. Other projects came up and the emphasis of my work altered.
13. In doing translation, one should not alter the meaning of the original to suit one's own taste.
14. The current division of labor between workers and management will alter.
15. He denounces people who urge him to alter his ways.
16. We have to alter the house into a barn.
17. It's the collision of disparate ideas that alters one's perspective.
18. The fact that she had become wealthy did not tempt her to alter her frugal way of life.
19. How to plan a daily schedule that can alter our natural chronobiological rhythms?
20. Prices may be altered without notice.
21. Little had altered in the village.
22. You are supposed to devise strategies to alter the cues and routines.
23. Almost inevitably, these machines will eventually alter the landscape, too.
24. The city centre has altered beyond recognition (= changed very much) .
25. Intruders might invade your systems for one of two reasons: to gain access to information that they should not have or to alter the behavior of a system.
26. Barry Humphries's alter ego Dame Edna has taken the US by storm.
27. The key to reforming higher education, concludes Mr. Menand, is to alter the way in which "the producers of knowledge are produced".
28. Aircraft can avoid each other by going up and down, as well as by altering course to left or right.
29. Her expression suddenly altered.
30. She is trying to alter the coat.
31. Please plan a daily schedule that can alter our natural chronobiological rhythms which engages with logic, reason and ideas.
32. We have literally altered the chemistry of our planet's atmosphere.
33. You are not those since you those, but you can alter those!
34. The computer can alter the serials librarian and produce a bindery notice.
35. I don't think it has fundamentally altered the sport.
36. She is, first and foremost, her husband's alter ego.
37. Each design was intended to alter the sound in some way, at first at least with the electric guitar, to make it louder.
38. You're not going to alter how much pleasure you enjoyed previously and how much suffering you've undergone previously.
39. There are a lot of existing perceptions about British food and so we can't alter these too much.
40. Many other processes may alter the shell of a clam or snail and enhance its chances for preservation.
41. Nothing can alter the fact that the refugees are our responsibility.
42. The government has altered the rules governing eligibility for unemployment benefit.
43. Superman's alter ego was Clark Kent.
44. Kefir rise in popularity has encouraged producers to take short cuts or alter the production process.
45. Unlike the multitude of elixirs being touted as the latest anti-aging cure, CR mimetics would alter fundamental processes that underlie aging.
46. "She'll have to alter a good deal," answered Mrs. Medlock.
47. Diet and exercise will alter your shape.
48. Each drug you take not only acts on the body but may also alter the effect of any other drug you are taking.
49. For example, an invading nonnative plant could alter the quantity of leaf litter production, which would alter nutrient contributions to the soil.
50. Large-scale disturbances in one locale also have the potential to alter the genetic structure of populations in neighboring areas, even if those areas have pristine habitats.
51. Sophistry cannot alter history.
52. The effect of saturation is simply to alter the growth rate.
53. Or did this unbearable circumstance alter our and goal?
54. Her face hadn't altered much over the years.
55. That boy needs to alter his course, otherwise he will be fired.
56. Clear this box if you do not want the Code Editor to alter statements.
57. During meditation brain waves alter.
58. Prices did not alter significantly during 2004.
59. If a nonnative plant species invades an above-ground community of flora and fauna, it can alter links between the native above-ground community and the below-ground soil community.
60. He had altered so much I scarcely recognized him.
61. Economic recession and the competition for jobs could alter that.
62. People alter their voices in relationship to background noise.
63. He's already altered several of the proposals in his economic plan to accommodate demands of special interests.
64. She was about to alter the trimmings of the dress.
65. Programs are expensive, and even more so if you have to keep altering them.
66. Processing and storage also may alter plant vitamin content.
67. Using such technology promises to alter people's behaviour afterwards.
68. A Book publisher may alter or abridge a work with the permission of the copyright owner.
69. Nothing can alter the fact that we are to blame.
70. The landscape has been radically altered, severely damaging wildlife.
71. It was the suggestion that he might alter course to win an election that really nettled him.
72. It doesn't alter the way I feel.
73. The later species all depend on the preparations of the earlier one, for the actions of the zebra alter the vegetation to suit the stomachs of the wildebeest, topi, and gazelle.
