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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
instead
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
choose
▪ Opposition by burghers, who feared for the fishing, ensured that Plymouth Dock, later Devonport, was later chosen instead.
▪ NxtWave opted not to set up shop in Silicon Valley and instead chose Langhorne.
▪ Once elected, he chose instead to set the country's finances in order.
▪ He chooses instead to focus on a slightly more manageable milestone: the turn of the century.
▪ People who are unfamiliar with keyboards could choose instead to interact with the computer using their normal handwriting.
▪ To date, the Planning Department has refused the request, choosing instead to prepare a brief addendum.
▪ Berghuis avoids making big bets in a single industry, choosing instead to spread his risks.
concentrate
▪ I dismissed the thoughts as too disturbing and concentrated instead on Selkirk's poem.
▪ Characteristically, Alvin rarely wrote about finances, concentrating instead on touring conditions, reviews and his many plans for the company.
▪ They make no attempt to explore the cause of those tears, concentrating instead on living without muscular tension.
▪ Because of this subjects may have ignored memories of mundane situations and concentrated instead on recalling the ones which they remembered as risky.
▪ As a consequence the markets were distracted from fundamentals and concentrated instead on special situations and gossip.
▪ Research too has overlooked outpatient waiting, concentrating instead on waits for inpatient procedures or general practitioner referral patterns.
▪ Yet the current Government has concentrated instead on converting public into private monopolies.
▪ I heard the voice, but I tried not to listen, concentrating instead on the spider's web in the window.
prefer
▪ He refuses to wear the ceremonial purple of a bishop, preferring instead simple monastic robes.
▪ Careful growers use none of these, preferring instead a grain diet with some chicken fat.
▪ They preferred instead to use the designation related to the setting - neighbour, for example.
▪ Playing singles, he never got far, preferring instead the strategic intricacies of doubles.
▪ He prefers instead to hold meetings with his colleagues and to talk things through until a solution emerges.
▪ But the sun seldom came sideways, preferring instead to strike straight down from above.
▪ Suppose that a firm decided never to pay dividends, preferring instead to reward shareholders entirely through capital gains.
use
▪ Plastic plants can be used instead, or as well.
▪ The lower three grades are seldom sold as retail cuts but are used instead in making hamburger and meat food products.
▪ Never brush your hair when wet; instead use a wide-tooth comb.
▪ Some one who thinks he is taking the herbal product but is instead using the illegal Ecstasy could overdose, Green said.
▪ Although it was once carried out by hand, machines using centrifugal force are now used instead.
▪ Frequently, evolved programs are rejected as somehow unreliable, and a human is used instead.
▪ He does not hunt high and low for an animal to use instead.
▪ These surfaces should be white in colour; if they are not suitable, some other reflective surface can be used instead.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Can I have soup instead of salad?
▪ Cardew did not join the navy. Instead, he decided to join the theater and become an actor.
▪ Gillespie will play in midfield instead of Cochrane.
▪ I can't manage Thursday. Can we meet on Friday instead?
▪ I can't understand why they chose him instead of you -- you're much better qualified for the job.
▪ Jo couldn't go to the meeting, so I said I'd go instead.
▪ We didn't have enough money for a movie, so we went to the park instead.
▪ We didn't have enough money to go to a movie, so we went to the park instead.
▪ You should talk to your teacher instead of just complaining to me about it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Instead

Instead \In*stead"\, adv. [Pref. in- + stead place.]

  1. In the place or room; -- usually followed by of.

    Let thistles grow of wheat.
    --Job xxxi. 40.

    Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab.
    --2 Sam. xvii. 25.

  2. Equivalent; equal to; -- usually with of. [R.]

    This very consideration to a wise man is instead of a thousand arguments, to satisfy him, that in those times no such thing was believed.
    --Tillotson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
instead

1590s, from Middle English ine stede (early 13c.; see stead); loan-translation of Latin in loco (French en lieu de). Still often two words until c.1640.

Wiktionary
instead

adv. In the place of something (usually mentioned earlier); as a substitute or alternative.

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WordNet
instead

  1. adv. in place of, or as an alternative to; "Felix became a herpetologist instead"; "alternatively we could buy a used car" [syn: alternatively, as an alternative, or else]

  2. on the contrary; "rather than disappoint the children, he did two quick tricks before he left"; "he didn't call; rather (or instead), he wrote her a letter"; "used English terms instead of Latin ones" [syn: rather]

Wikipedia
Instead

Instead may refer to:

  • Instead (album), a 2007 album by Onetwo
  • "Instead", a 2003 song by Stacie Orrico off her self-titled album
  • "Instead" (Madeleine Peyroux song), a 2009 song
Instead (album)

Instead is the first album by synthpop duo Onetwo. It was released as a CD and as a download. The album contains two covers: Pink Floyd's " Have a Cigar" and Cat Power's " I Don't Blame You".

Contributors include Martin Gore of Depeche Mode, who co-wrote and played guitar on the single "Cloud Nine".

Instead (Madeleine Peyroux song)

"'Instead" is the opening track of Madeleine Peyroux's album Bare Bones. It was a retro-feeling and charted on the Japanese 100 Singles. According to Peyroux,the song is a reminder of how we should enjoy life and the things we have. Reportedly, she wrote it in a "dark point" of her life. To promote the song, it was released as a video of a live performance.

Usage examples of "instead".

Instead, she held her tightly, rocking her a little, and tried to transmit her own warmth through the Veil to her lost love.

Instead he put it against his lips then finally let Abram in on his secret.

Neat little picture: man lighting cigarette, throws match absentmindedly in tub of pep instead of waste basket, panics, spills the stuff, steps wildly back from flames, trips over stove and knocks himself out.

Instead, she took a step back, to the safety of the Abyssinian War memorial.

The codicil entails the estate upon James instead of bequeathing it outright, and so if the Court accepts it, that would mean that he had no clear title to the estate to sell to my great-grandfather.

Even the decks of cards used at the blackjack and poker tables were specially printed, with the Twelve Apostles replacing the face cards, the Dove of the Holy Spirit replacing the aces, Jesus instead of the Joker, and the Fairchild Ministry logo on the back.

Instead he handed out copies of the latest issue of Aces and then sauntered up to the lounge, no doubt to pester someone else.

It simply signifies the ascent of the soul after death into the Olympian halls instead of descending into the Acheronian gulfs.

Instead of Murray alone serving as minister plenipotentiary, Adams nominated Patrick Henry and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth to join Murray as envoys to France, making a commission of three.

Jefferson remained at Monticello, Adams at his farm, which he had lately taken to calling Stoneyfield, instead of Peacefield, perhaps feeling the new name was more in keeping with New England candor, or that it better defined the look of the political landscape at the moment.

Whites with award ribbons instead of utilities like Adele and the others.

Blantyre asked, speaking directly to Adele instead of using the helmet intercom.

For instead of using his own men to implement it, the King had directed that each local community of Aeolian or Ionian or Dorian Greeks should do the killing.

The damned thing refused to die gracefully, acting instead as if it were putting on a low-level aerobatic performance for the enjoyment of the spectators in this case, Bob and members of the 307th NVA Regiment.

Instead of confronting the Luftwaffe over France or evacuating Allied soldiers from Dunkirk, Skip had been relegated to testing aerocraft at Biddington Airfield until a chap named Cunningham finally came in and replaced him.