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
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Alternative as an adjective:
Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities
Examples:
"an alternative proposition"
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Alternative as an adjective:
Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground.
Examples:
"m alternative medicine; m alternative lifestyle; m alternative rock"
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Alternative as an adjective:
Other; different from something else.
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Alternative as an adjective:
alternate; reciprocal
Examples:
"rfquotek Holland"
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Alternative as a noun:
A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
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Alternative as a noun:
One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
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Alternative as a noun:
The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.
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Fringe as a noun:
A decorative border.
Examples:
"the fringe of a picture"
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Fringe as a noun:
A marginal or peripheral part.
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Fringe as a noun:
Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
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Fringe as a noun:
The periphery of a town or city.
Examples:
"He lives in the fringe of London."
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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."
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Fringe as a noun (physics):
A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
Examples:
"interference fringe"
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Fringe as a noun:
Non-mainstream theatre.
Examples:
"The Fringe''; ''Edinburgh Fringe''; ''Adelaide Fringe"
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Fringe as a noun (botany):
The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
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Fringe as a noun (golf):
The area around the green
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Fringe as an adjective:
Outside the mainstream.
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Fringe as a verb (transitive):
To decorate with fringe.
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Fringe as a verb (transitive):
To serve as a fringe.