deviate
pronunciation
How to pronounce deviate in British English:
UK [ˈdiːvieɪt]
How to pronounce deviate in American English:
US [ˈdiːvieɪt]
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- Noun:
- a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
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- Verb:
- be at variance with; be out of line with
- turn aside; turn away from
- cause to turn away from a previous or expected course
- turn aside
Word Origin
- deviate
- deviate: see devious
- deviate (v.)
- 1630s, from Late Latin deviatus, past participle of deviare "to turn out of the way" (see deviant). Related: Deviated; deviating. The noun meaning "sexual pervert" is attested from 1912.
Example
- 1. Policies that deviate from this aim are bad .
- 2. It is not likely the government will deviate from this course .
- 3. Steve fulton of naverus , a subsidiary of ge that designs and installs such systems , likens them to a railway track : aeroplanes do not deviate more than a wingspan from their charted courses and touch down within ten seconds of the predicted time .
- 4. The few publications that deviate from this standard are regularly shut down , and those responsible for producing them face potentially serious legal repercussions .
- 5. In the second kind of space , k-minkowski spacetime , the dimensions also deviate from the constant behavior of classical minkowski spacetime .