different between deviate vs renegade

English

Etymology

Late Latin deviatus, past participle of deviare, from the phrase de via.

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • d?'v??t, IPA^(key): /?di?vie?t/
• Noun:
  • d?'v??t, IPA^(key): /?di?vi.?t/

Noun

deviate (plural deviates)

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

   Synonyms: deviant, degenerate, pervert

   • 1915: James Cornelius Wilson, A Handbook of medical diagnosis [1]

     ...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...

   • 1959: Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back, Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing [2]

     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 ...

   • 2001: Rupert Brown, Group Processes [3]

     ...The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially...

2. (statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
   • 1928: Karl J. Holzinger, Statistical Methods for Students in Education [4]

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

   • 2001: Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical Biostatistics [5]

     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.

   • 2005: Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: An Introduction Using R [6]

     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...

Translations

Verb

deviate (third-person singular simple present deviates, present participle deviating, simple past and past participle deviated)

1. (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
2. (intransitive, figuratively) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
3. (transitive) To cause to diverge.

Synonyms

• (change course): swerve, veer
• (stray): stray, wander

Translations

Related terms

• deviant
• deviation

Italian

Verb

deviate

1. second-person plural present present subjunctive/imperative of deviare

Anagrams

• vediate
• videate

Latin

Verb

d?vi?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?vi?

English

Etymology

From Spanish renegado, from Medieval Latin reneg?tus, perfect participle of reneg? (“I deny”). See also renege.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???n???e?d/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???n???e?d/

Noun

renegade (plural renegades)

1. An outlaw or rebel.
2. A disloyal person who betrays or deserts a cause, religion, political party, friend, etc.

Coordinate terms

• (disloyal person): apostate, defector, heretic, turncoat

Related terms

Translations

Verb

renegade (third-person singular simple present renegades, present participle renegading, simple past and past participle renegaded)

1. (dated) To desert one's cause, or change one's loyalties; to commit betrayal.
   • 1859, Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (volume 3, page 740)

     The recent arrangement, obtained by Lord Stratford, as to the case of a Christian renegading to Mohammedanism […]

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “renegade”, in Online Etymology Dictionary