Deviate

Definition: Deviate

Deviate

Noun

1. A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior.

Verb

1. Be at variance with; be out of line with.

2. Turn aside; turn away from.

3. Cause to turn away from a previous or expected course; "The river was deviated to prevent flooding".

4. Turn aside.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "deviate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Mathematics

Mining

Synonyms: Deviate

Change

Verb: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume.

Circuit

Verb: perform a circuit; go round about, go out of one's way; make a detour; meander; (deviate).

Curvature

Verb: be curved; Adjective: curve, sweep, sway, swag, sag; deviate; curl, turn; reenter.

Deviation

Verb: alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe, wear.

Divergence

Verb: diverge, divaricate, radiate; ramify; branch off, glance off, file off; fly off, fly off at a tangent; spread, scatter, disperse; deviate; part; (separate).

Straightness

Verb: be straight; Adjective: have no turning; not incline to either side, not bend to either side, not turn to either side, not deviate to either side; go straight; steer for; (directions).

Variation

Noun: variation; alteration; (change). modification, moods and tenses; discrepance, discrepancy. divergency; deviation; aberration; innovation. Verb: vary; (change); deviate; diverge; alternate, swerve.

Vice

Verb: be vicious; Adjective: sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgress; misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo, misbehave; fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue; take a wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one's wild oats.

Crosswords: Deviate

Deviate Doctor (1973)

Teenage Deviate (1975)

Music

• Deviate Beyond All Means of Ca (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Civil Liberties

Singapore

Publications by local academics and members of research institutions rarely deviate substantially from government views. (references)

United Arab Emirates

The Federal Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs distributes weekly guidance to both Sunni and Shi'a shaikhs regarding subject matter, themes, and content of religious sermons, and ensures that clergy do not deviate frequently or significantly from approved topics in their sermons. (references)

Indonesia

Historically, the Government has attempted to control Muslim groups whose practices deviate from mainstream Islamic beliefs because of pressure by nongovernmental leaders of mainstream or conservative and traditional Muslim groups as well as the Government's concern for national unity. (references)

Economic History

Austria

The Finance Minister indicated, however, that he would be willing to deviate from this goal and accept a small deficit, should the economy deteriorate further. (references)

Ireland

The legislation will apply regardless of any clause in the agreement itself, and the parties may not deviate from the legislation as long as the distribution agreement is in force. (references)

Philippines

The BOI is flexible in enforcing local value-added ratios registrants commit to in their approved project proposal, as long as actual performance does not deviate significantly from other participants in the same activity. (references)

Political Economy

Benin

Further, and despite problems in the West African region, there is no indication that the 2001 presidential elections will deviate from this salutary trend. (references)

Worker Rights

Senegal

The Government may disband a union if its activities deviate from its charter. (references)

Indonesia

Regulations allow employers to deviate from the normal work hours upon request to the Minister of Manpower and with the consent of the employee. (references)

Expressions using "deviate": deviate from ♦ deviate from the subject ♦ normal deviate ♦ not deviate to either side ♦ standardised deviate ♦ standardized deviate. Additional references.

Ending with "deviate": out-deviate.

Afrikaans

afwyk (diverge, turn, wander). (various references)

Albanian

shmangem (circumvent, deflect, depart, diverge, dodge, duck, escape, eschew, fence, fend off, fight shy of, forbear, funk, give a wide berth, glance, jink, jump, keep one's distance, leapfrog, Miss, Parry, refrain, shirk, shun, sidestep, steer clear of, tergiversate, wander). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منحرف شاذ (aberrant, perverse), ‏حرف (brim, brink, character, contort, corrupt, distort, diverge, edge, falsify, garble, letter, list, margin, misrepresent, particle, slant, tamper, torture, twist, wrest), ‏المنحرف جنسيا (masochist), ‏إنحرف (astrict, deflect, depart, deviate from, diverge, divert, drift, incline, jibe, jump, nose, pervert, sidetrack, skew, slew, slue, squint, stray, swerve, swing, turn, veer), ‏شذ (be exceptional). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тръгвам по лош път, отклонявам се (break, depart, digress, dissent, diverge, dodge, oblique, part, run off, stray, swerve, swing, take off, turn aside, turn off, wander), отклонявам (abduct, avert, bend, call off, deflect, detract, disincline, divagate, divert, fence off, head off, put off, shunt, siphon off, stave off, swerve, throw down, throw off, turn aside, turn off, wave away). (various references)

Chinese 

偏离 (Deviated, Deviating). (various references)

Czech

odchýlit se (straggle), odboèit (branch off, decline, deflect, digress, run off, stray, strike off). (various references)

Danish

standardiseret variabel. (various references)

Dutch

deviatie (deviation), afwijking (aberration), afwýken (aberrate, deflect, diverge, turn, wander), afdwalen (aberrate, get off the subject, go astray, stray from one's subject, stray off, wander from one's subject), aberreren (aberrate). (various references)

Esperanto

dekliniĝi, aberacii. (various references)

Finnish

poikkeama (deflection, deviation), poiketa (aberrate, digress, diverge differ, turn, turn aside, turn off). (various references)

French

dévions, déviez, dévier (deflect), dévient, déviation (detour, deflection, deviation), variable aléatoire centrée, pervertir, perverti (depraved, deviant), faire dévier (deflect). (various references)

Frisian

ôfwike (aberrate, deflect, diverge, turn, wander). (various references)

German

abweichen (differ, aberrate, depart). (various references)

Greek 

παρεκκλίνω (deflect), εκτρέπομαι (aberrate, digress, stray, swerve, take a deflection). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשטות (go astray, rebel, turn aside), לחרוג (digress, exceed, leap, spring forth), לסור (depart from, digress, drop in, go away, leave off, move, pass away, step aside, turn, turn aside), לסטות (diverge, go astray, pervert, robbery, stray, turn aside, wayward), לנטות (dispose, extend, fancy, incline, lean, stretch, tend, tip, trend, turn aside), נלוז (aberrant, crooked, pervert). (various references)

Hungarian

letér (to go off, to oblique, to turn off), eltér (to deflect, to turn off). (various references)

Icelandic

víkja (aberrate). (various references)

Indonesian

menyimpang (afield, discursive, diverge, irrelevant), menyeleweng (afield, digress). (various references)

Italian

dirottare (change course, divert, hijack, skyjack), deviare (baffle, deflect, divert, glance, offset, sheer, shunt, siphon, slant, stray, switch, wander), deflettere (deflect), declinare (decline, wane), sviare (distract, divert, go astray, lead astray, mislead, misrepresent, sidetrack, swerve, turn, turn aside), scarto (discard, margin, reject, scrap, waste). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

逸する (to deviate, to forget, to lose, to miss), 悖る (to deviate from, to go against, to oppose). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いっする (to deviate, to forget, to lose, to miss), もとる (to deviate from, to go against, to oppose). (various references)

Korean 

일탈하십시요. (various references)

Manx

goll ass y raad, cleayney (attract, bank, circumvent, decoy, dispose, distort, distortion, diversion, divert, draw off, incline, induce, influence, inveigle, list, penchant, persuasion, perversion, recede, seduce, stoop, veer). (various references)

Norwegian

avvike (deflect, depart). (various references)

Pig Latin

eviateday.(various references)

Portuguese

desvio (detour, deflection, deflexion, deviation, shunt, siding), desviar (swerve), apresentaraberração, afastar (displace, remove). (various references)

Romanian

se abate (deflect, diverge, stray, swerve). (various references)

Russian 

отклоняться (digress, diverge, turn aside). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zastraniti (astray: go astray, digress, sway, swerve), odstupati (vary). (various references)

Spanish

desviarse (turn, deflect, diverge, wander). (various references)

Swedish

avvika (digress, diverge). (various references)

Thai

เบี่ยงเบน (divert), ออกนอกเส้นทาง, ทำให้เบี่ยงเบน, ซึ่งเบี่ยงเบน, คนนอกลู่นอกทาง. (various references)

Turkish

yoldan çıkmak (fall from, get out of hand, go astray, go off the rails, run off the rails, swerve), saptırmak (angle, call away, color, colour, contort, deflect, demotivate, detour, distort, draw off, garble, gerrymander, lead away, reroute, strain, sway, swerve, veer, veer round, vitiate, warp, wring), sapmak (bear, deflect, detour, digress, diverge, diverge from, lapse, lead away from, oblique, sheer, sheer away, sheer from, sheer off, slant, stray, swerve, swing, turn, turn aside, turn off, turn up, wander, wander off), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw). (various references)

Ukrainian

відступати (back, back down, backtrack, blench, crawfish, digress, draw back, draw off, drop back, ebb, fall back, flinch, give ground, go back, recede, retreat, retrograde, shy, stand away, stand back, walk backward), відхилятися (bear off, deflect, diverge, incline, lapse, run off, skew, stray, swerve, trend, turn, turn aside). (various references)

aberro, digredior digredi digressus, discedo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "deviate": deviated, deviates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Deviate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Davlat, Davlatov, deliate, desiate, devia, deviare, deviat, devicto, devigate, devita, devoute, diviate, Dvaita, sexvirate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dative, evited, ideate.

-2 letters: davit, deave, eaved, evade, evite, vitae.

-3 letters: adit, aide, avid, date, deet, deva, diet, dita, dite, diva, dive, eave, edit, eide, idea, teed, tide, tied, vide, vied, vita.

-4 letters: aid, ait, ate, ave, dee, dev, die, dit, eat, eta, eve, tad, tae, tav, tea, ted, tee, tie, vat, vee, vet.

+1 letter: derivate, deviated, deviates, ideative, sedative.

+2 letters: adjective, advective, adventive, advertise, advertize, derivates, educative, eluviated, estivated, exudative, exuviated, levigated, levitated, mediative, negatived, sedatives, vesicated, videotape.

+3 letters: adjectives, adventives, advertised, advertiser, advertises, advertized, advertizes, advisement, aestivated, alleviated, deactivate, decorative, denotative, derivative, derivatize, derogative, detonative, detractive, devitalize, dovetailed, evidential, federative, innervated, meditative, revalidate, travestied, variegated, ventilated, videotaped, videotapes.