| Main Entry: | crotch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loins |
Synonyms: |
groin, lap, pelvic girdle, pubic area |
| Main Entry: | angle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shape formed by two lines meeting at a point |
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V, Y, bend, corner, crook, crotch, cusp, decline, divergence, dogleg, edge, elbow, flare, flection, flexure, fork, incline, intersection, knee, nook, notch, obliquity, point, slant, turn, turning, twist |
| Main Entry: | detour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirect course |
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alternate route, back road, branch, bypass, bypath, byway, circuit, circuitous route, circumbendibus, circumnavigation, circumvention, crotch, deviation, divergence, diversion, fork, roundabout way, runaround, secondary highway, service road, substitute, temporary route |
| Main Entry: | deviation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, departure |
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aberration, alteration, anomaly, breach, crotch, deflection, detour, difference, digression, discrepancy, disparity, divergence, diversion, fluctuation, fork, hereticism, inconsistency, irregularity, modification, shift, transgression, turning, variance, variation |
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conformity, sameness, straightforwardness, uniformity |
| Main Entry: | divergence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | branching out; difference |
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aberration, alteration, alterity, crotch, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, digression, disagreeing, discrepancy, disparity, dissemblance, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distinction, divagation, divergency, diversity, division, fork, mutation, otherness, parting, radiation, ramification, separation, turning, unlikeness, variety, varying |
Antonyms: |
accord, agreement, concord, convergence, harmony, sameness |
| Main Entry: | turn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden change |
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alteration, bend, branch, crotch, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, digression, distortion, divarication, double, fork, modification, mutation, shift, tack, twist, variation, warp, yaw |
Antonyms: |
stagnation |
| Concept: | Deviation. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
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-nouns
deviation; swerving; obliquation, warp, refraction; flection, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure; declination., diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence; zigzag; detour (circuit); divagation., [Desultory motion] wandering; vagrancy, evagation; bypaths and crooked ways; byroad., [Motion sideways, oblique motion] sidling; knight's move at chess.
-verbs
alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe, wear., intervert; deflect; divert, divert from its course; put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp., stray, straggle; sidle; diverge; tralineate; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy., fly off at a tangent; glance off; wheel about, face about; turn to the right about, face to the right about; waddle (oscillate); go out of one's way (perform a circuit) [more]; lose one's way.
-adjectives
deviating; aberrant, errant; excursive, discursive; devious, desultory, loose; rambling; stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, curcuitous, indirect, zigzag; crab-like.
-adverbs
astray from, round about, wide of the mark; to the right about; all manner of ways; circuitously., obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.
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| Concept: | [Motion further off] Divergence. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
divergence, divergency; divarication, ramification, forking; radiation; separation (disjunction); dispersion; deviation; aberration.
-verbs
diverge, divaricate, radiate; ramify; branch off, glance off, file off; fly off, fly off at a tangent; spread, scatter, disperse; deviate; part (separate).
-adjectives
diverging; divergent, radiant, centrifugal; aberrant.
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Antonyms: |
convergence |
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