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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.

n. (-ĭt)

A deviant.

[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

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.

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.

deviate

Past participle: deviated
Gerund: deviating

Imperative
deviate
deviate

Present
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
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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Noun	1.	deviate - a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior degenerate, deviant, pervert fetishist - 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 miscreant, reprobate - a person without moral scruples lech, lecher, letch, satyr - man with strong sexual desires 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 divert 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 sidetrack, straggle, digress, depart - wander from a direct or straight course
	2.	deviate - be at variance with; be out of line with depart, vary, diverge aberrate - 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" aberrant, deviant 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"

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

verb

1. To turn away from a prescribed course of action or conduct:

depart, digress, diverge, stray, swerve, veer.

Archaic: err.

2. To turn aside, especially from the main subject in writing or speaking:

digress, divagate, diverge, ramble, stray, wander.

Idiom: go off at a tangent.

3. To change the direction or course of:

avert, deflect, divert, pivot, shift, swing, turn, veer.

noun

One whose sexual behavior differs from the accepted norm:

deviant, pervert.

Translations

يَنْحَرِف

odchýlit se

afvige

abkommen abweichen

dévier écarter

víkja frá, bregîa út af

aberrare allontanarsi declinare deviante devianza

nukrypimas

novirzīties

avvike fra

sapmak

偏离

deviate

[ˈdiːvɪeɪt] VI → desviarse (from de)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

deviate

[ˈdiːvieɪt] vi
to deviate from [+ path, task, standard] → dévier de

deviate

(person: from truth, former statement, routine) → abweichen (from von)

(ship, plane, projectile) → vom Kurs abweichen or abkommen; (deliberately) → vom Kurs abgehen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

deviate

[ˈdiːvɪˌeɪt] vi to deviate (from) → deviare (da)

deviate

(ˈdiːvieit) verb

to turn aside, especially from a right, normal or standard course. She will not deviate from her routine.

ˌdeviˈation noun

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But a man is not often found sufficiently circumspect to know how to accommodate himself to the change, both because he cannot deviate from what nature inclines him to do, and also because, having always prospered by acting in one way, he cannot be persuaded that it is well to leave it; and, therefore, the cautious man, when it is time to turn adventurous, does not know how to do it, hence he is ruined; but had he changed his conduct with the times fortune would not have changed.

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It is lucky for the women that the seat of fistycuff war is not the same with them as among men; but though they may seem a little to deviate from their sex, when they go forth to battle, yet I have observed, they never so far forget, as to assail the bosoms of each other; where a few blows would be fatal to most of them.

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When a race of plants is once pretty well established, the seed-raisers do not pick out the best plants, but merely go over their seed-beds, and pull up the 'rogues,' as they call the plants that deviate from the proper standard.

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Fogg, in order not to deviate from his course, furled his sails and increased the force of the steam; but the vessel's speed slackened, owing to the state of the sea, the long waves of which broke against the stern.

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No; at least, ere I deviate, I will advance far enough to see whither my career tends.

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Not that I should be disposed to recommend (at present) the extreme measures adopted by some States, where an infant whose angle deviates by half a degree from the correct angularity is summarily destroyed at birth.

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