Update vs. Alter

Updatenoun

An advisement providing more up-to-date information than currently known.

Updatenoun

A change in information, a modification of existing or known data.

Updatenoun

An additional piece of information. An addition to existing information.

Updatenoun

A modification of something to a more recent, up-to-date version; (in software) a minor upgrade.

Updatenoun

A version of something which is newer than other versions.

Updateverb

(transitive) To bring (a thing) up to date.

Updateverb

(transitive) To bring (a person) up to date: to inform (a person) about recent developments.

Updatenoun

news that updates your information

Updateverb

modernize or bring up to date;

Updateverb

bring up to date; supply with recent information

Updateverb

bring to the latest state of technology

Alterverb

(transitive) To change the form or structure of.

Alterverb

(intransitive) To become different.

Alterverb

(transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.

Alterverb

(transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).

Alterverb

(transitive) To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.

Alternoun

One of the identities or personalities of a person with multiple personality disorder / dissociative identity disorder.

Alterverb

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

Alterverb

To agitate; to affect mentally.

Alterverb

To geld.

Alterverb

To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure.

Alterverb

cause to change; make different; cause a transformation;

Alterverb

make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence;

Alterverb

make an alteration to;

Alterverb

insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

Alterverb

remove the ovaries of;

Alterverb

change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way

Alterverb

make structural changes to (a building)

Alterverb

castrate or spay (a domestic animal).