The difference between Alternative and Fringe

When used as nouns, alternative means a situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities, whereas fringe means a decorative border.

When used as adjectives, alternative means relating to a choice between two or more possibilities, whereas fringe means outside the mainstream.


Fringe is also verb with the meaning: to decorate with fringe.

check bellow for the other definitions of Alternative and Fringe

  1. Alternative as an adjective:

    Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities

    Examples:

    "an alternative proposition"

  2. Alternative as an adjective:

    Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground.

    Examples:

    "m alternative medicine; m alternative lifestyle; m alternative rock"

  3. Alternative as an adjective:

    Other; different from something else.

  4. Alternative as an adjective:

    alternate; reciprocal

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Holland"

  1. Alternative as a noun:

    A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.

  2. Alternative as a noun:

    One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.

  3. Alternative as a noun:

    The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.

  1. Fringe as a noun:

    A decorative border.

    Examples:

    "the fringe of a picture"

  2. Fringe as a noun:

    A marginal or peripheral part.

  3. Fringe as a noun:

    Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.

  4. Fringe as a noun:

    The periphery of a town or city.

    Examples:

    "He lives in the fringe of London."

  5. Fringe as a noun:

    That part of the hair that hangs down above the eyes; bangs.

    Examples:

    "Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes."

  6. Fringe as a noun (physics):

    A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.

    Examples:

    "interference fringe"

  7. Fringe as a noun:

    Non-mainstream theatre.

    Examples:

    "The Fringe''; ''Edinburgh Fringe''; ''Adelaide Fringe"

  8. Fringe as a noun (botany):

    The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.

  9. Fringe as a noun (golf):

    The area around the green

  1. Fringe as an adjective:

    Outside the mainstream.

  1. Fringe as a verb (transitive):

    To decorate with fringe.

  2. Fringe as a verb (transitive):

    To serve as a fringe.

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