deviate — Dictionnaire anglais

Verbe

1. To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.

   Usage

   • intransitif

   Exemples

   Plus d’exemples (1)

   These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no symptoms of approaching the suburbs of a large city.

   Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.

   Now listen to what you've got to do, and this time if you deviate a single hair or try any of your monkey tricks it's the deep end you'll go off at.

2. To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.

   Usage

   • figuré
   • intransitif

   Exemples

   His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.

3. To cause to diverge.

   Usage

   • transitif

Nom

1. A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.

   Synonymes

   deviantdegeneratepervert

   Exemples

   […] Walton has suggested that it is desirable "to name the phenomena signs of deviation, and call their possessors deviates or a deviate as the case may be […]

   Under these conditions the person who appears as a deviate is a deviate only because we have chosen, somewhat arbitrarily, to call him a member of the court […]

   Plus d’exemples (1)

   […] The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially […]

2. A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.

   Exemples

   It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130 […]

   This difference is called a deviate. When a deviate is divided by its SD a, it is called a relative deviate or a standard deviate.

   Plus d’exemples (1)

   This is a deviate so the appropriate function is qt. We need to supply it with the probability (in this case p = 0.975) and the degrees of freedom...

Adjectif

1. deviant

   Exemples

   Plus d’exemples (1)

   It's somewhat in vogue to give special attention and consideration to the alternative lifestyle, which five years ago we would have called the deviate lifestyle.

Adjectif

1. markedly different from an accepted norm

   Synonymes

   aberrantdeviant

   Exemples

   aberrant behavior

   deviant ideas

Nom

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

   Synonymes

   pervertdeviantdegeneratepervperve

   Termes génériques

   reprobatemiscreant

Verbe

1. turn aside; turn away from

   Synonymes

   divert

   Termes génériques

   turn

2. be at variance with; be out of line with

   Synonymes

   varydivergedepart

   Antonymes

   conform

   Termes génériques

   differ

3. cause to turn away from a previous or expected course

   Termes génériques

   divert

   Exemples

   The river was deviated to prevent flooding