Found 4 items, similar to alter.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: alter mengubah
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: alter berubah, mempermak, merubah
English → English (WordNet) Definition: alter alter v 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” [syn: change, modify] 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” [syn: change, vary] 3: make an alteration to; “This dress needs to be altered” 4: insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby [syn: interpolate, falsify] 5: remove the ovaries of; “Is your cat spayed?” [syn: neuter, spay, castrate]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Alter Alter \Al"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Altered; p. pr. & vb. n. Altering.] [F. alt['e]rer, LL. alterare, fr. L. alter other, alius other. Cf. Else, Other.] 1. To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. “To alter the king's course.” “To alter the condition of a man.” “No power in Venice can alter a decree.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] It gilds all objects, but it alters none. --Pope. [1913 Webster] My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. --Ps. lxxxix. 34. [1913 Webster] 2. To agitate; to affect mentally. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. To geld. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] Syn: Change, Alter. Usage: Change is generic and the stronger term. It may express a loss of identity, or the substitution of one thing in place of another; alter commonly expresses a partial change, or a change in form or details without destroying identity. [1913 Webster] Alter \Al"ter\, v. i. To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure. “The law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.” --Dan. vi. 8. [1913 Webster]