deviate
de·vi·ate
(dē′vē-āt′)v. de·vi·at·ed, de·vi·at·ing, de·vi·ates
v.intr.
1. To turn aside from a course or way: hikers who deviated from the main path.
2. To depart, as from a norm, purpose, or subject; differ or stray. See Synonyms at swerve.
v.tr.
To cause to turn aside or differ.
[Late Latin dēviāre, dēviāt- : Latin dē-, de- + Latin via, road; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.]
de′vi·a′tor n.
de′vi·a·to′ry (-ə-tôr′ē) adj.
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deviate
vb
1. (usually intr) to differ or diverge or cause to differ or diverge, as in belief or thought
2. (usually intr) to turn aside or cause to turn aside; diverge or cause to diverge
3. (Psychology) (intr) psychol to depart from an accepted standard or convention
n, adj
(Sociology) another word for deviant
[C17: from Late Latin dēviāre to turn aside from the direct road, from de- + via road]
ˈdeviˌator n
ˈdeviatory adj
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de•vi•ate
(v. ˈdi viˌeɪt; adj., n. -ɪt) v. -at•ed, -at•ing,
adj., n. v.i.
1. to turn aside, as from a route or course.
2. to depart, as from an accepted procedure, standard, or course of action.
3. to digress, as from a line of thought.
v.t.4. to cause to swerve; turn aside.
adj.5. characterized by deviation or departure from an accepted norm or standard, as of behavior.
n.6. a person or thing that departs from the accepted norm or standard.
7. a person whose sexual behavior departs from the norm in a socially or morally unacceptable way.
[1625–35; < Late Latin dēviātus, past participle of dēviāre to turn into another road = Latin dē- de- + -viāre, derivative of via road, way]
de′vi•a`tor, n.
de′vi•a•to`ry (-əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i) de′vi•a`tive, adj.
syn: deviate, digress, diverge imply turning or going aside from a path. To deviate is to stray from a usual or established standard, course of action, or route: Fear made him deviate from the truth. To digress is to wander from the main theme in speaking or writing: The speaker digressed to relate an amusing anecdote. To diverge is to differ or to move in different directions from a common point or course: Their interests gradually diverged.
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deviate
Past participle: deviated
Gerund: deviating
| Imperative |
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| deviate |
| deviate |
| Present |
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| I deviate |
| you deviate |
| he/she/it deviates |
| we deviate |
| you deviate |
| they deviate |
| Preterite |
|---|
| I deviated |
| you deviated |
| he/she/it deviated |
| we deviated |
| you deviated |
| they deviated |
| Present Continuous |
|---|
| I am deviating |
| you are deviating |
| he/she/it is deviating |
| we are deviating |
| you are deviating |
| they are deviating |
| Present Perfect |
|---|
| I have deviated |
| you have deviated |
| he/she/it has deviated |
| we have deviated |
| you have deviated |
| they have deviated |
| Past Continuous |
|---|
| I was deviating |
| you were deviating |
| he/she/it was deviating |
| we were deviating |
| you were deviating |
| they were deviating |
| Past Perfect |
|---|
| I had deviated |
| you had deviated |
| he/she/it had deviated |
| we had deviated |
| you had deviated |
| they had deviated |
| Future |
|---|
| I will deviate |
| you will deviate |
| he/she/it will deviate |
| we will deviate |
| you will deviate |
| they will deviate |
| Future Perfect |
|---|
| I will have deviated |
| you will have deviated |
| he/she/it will have deviated |
| we will have deviated |
| you will have deviated |
| they will have deviated |
| Future Continuous |
|---|
| I will be deviating |
| you will be deviating |
| he/she/it will be deviating |
| we will be deviating |
| you will be deviating |
| they will be deviating |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I have been deviating |
| you have been deviating |
| he/she/it has been deviating |
| we have been deviating |
| you have been deviating |
| they have been deviating |
| Future Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I will have been deviating |
| you will have been deviating |
| he/she/it will have been deviating |
| we will have been deviating |
| you will have been deviating |
| they will have been deviating |
| Past Perfect Continuous |
|---|
| I had been deviating |
| you had been deviating |
| he/she/it had been deviating |
| we had been deviating |
| you had been deviating |
| they had been deviating |
| Conditional |
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| I would deviate |
| you would deviate |
| he/she/it would deviate |
| we would deviate |
| you would deviate |
| they would deviate |
| Past Conditional |
|---|
| I would have deviated |
| you would have deviated |
| he/she/it would have deviated |
| we would have deviated |
| you would have deviated |
| they would have deviated |
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
| Noun | 1. |  deviate - a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behaviorfetishist - one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature) nympho, nymphomaniac - a woman with abnormal sexual desires child molester, paederast - a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner sodomist - someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male) |
| Verb | 1. | deviate - turn aside; turn away from turn - change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense; "Turn towards me"; "The mugger turned and fled before I could see his face"; "She turned from herself and learned to listen to others' needs" yaw - deviate erratically from a set course; "the yawing motion of the ship" detour - travel via a detour |
| 2. |  deviate - be at variance with; be out of line withaberrate - diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration; "The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens" aberrate - diverge from the expected; "The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman" belie, contradict, negate - be in contradiction with differ - be different; "These two tests differ in only one respect" conform - be similar, be in line with | |
| 3. | deviate - cause to turn away from a previous or expected course; "The river was deviated to prevent flooding" divert - send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one perturb - cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull; "The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet" perturb - disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom; "The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion" shunt - provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt | |
| Adj. | 1. | deviate - markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas" abnormal, unnatural - not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal amounts of rain"; "abnormal circumstances"; "an abnormal interest in food" |
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deviate
verb differ, vary, depart, part, turn, bend, drift, wander, stray, veer, swerve, meander, diverge, digress, turn aside He didn't deviate from his schedule.
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deviate
verb1. To turn away from a prescribed course of action or conduct:
Archaic: err.
2. To turn aside, especially from the main subject in writing or speaking:
Idiom: go off at a tangent.
3. To change the direction or course of:
One whose sexual behavior differs from the accepted norm:
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Translations
يَنْحَرِف
odchýlit se
afvige
víkja frá, bregîa út af
nukrypimas
novirzīties
sapmak
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deviate
[ˈdiːvieɪt] vi
to deviate from [+ path, task, standard] → dévier de
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deviate
vi
(person: from truth, former statement, routine) → abweichen (from von)
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deviate
[ˈdiːvɪˌeɪt] vi to deviate (from) → deviare (da)
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deviate
(ˈdiːvieit) verbto turn aside, especially from a right, normal or standard course. She will not deviate from her routine.
ˌdeviˈation nounKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.