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deviate
English
Etymology
Late Latin deviatus, past participle of deviare, from the phrase de via.
Pronunciation
- Verb:
- d?'v??t, IPA(key): /?di?vie?t/
- d?'v??t, IPA(key): /?di?vie?t/
- Noun:
- d?'v??t, IPA(key): /?di?vi.?t/
- d?'v??t, IPA(key): /?di?vi.?t/
Noun
deviate (plural deviates)
- (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...
- (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...
- 1928: Karl J. Holzinger, Statistical Methods for Students in Education [4]
Translations
Verb
deviate (third-person singular simple present deviates, present participle deviating, simple past and past participle deviated)
- (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
- (transitive) To cause to diverge.
Synonyms
- (change course): swerve, veer
- (stray): stray, wander
Translations
Related terms
- deviant
- deviation
Italian
Verb
deviate
- second-person plural present present subjunctive/imperative of deviare
Anagrams
- vediate
- videate
Latin
Verb
d?vi?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of d?vi?
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rove
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???v/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?o?v/
- Rhymes: -??v
Etymology 1
Probably from Middle English *roven, a Midlands variant of Northern Middle English raven (“to wander”), from Old Norse ráfa (“to rove; stray about”). Cognate with Icelandic ráfa (“to wander”), Scots rave (“to wander; stray; roam”).
Verb
rove (third-person singular simple present roves, present participle roving, simple past and past participle roved)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:
- And thou […] that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:
- (intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1
- Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1
- (transitive) To roam or wander through.
- (transitive) To card wool or other fibres.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)
- To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
- To draw through an eye or aperture.
- To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
- To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
Derived terms
- rover
- roved
- roving
Related terms
- reeve
Translations
Noun
rove (plural roves)
- A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
- A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
- The act of wandering; a ramble.
Etymology 2
Inflected forms.
Verb
rove
- simple past tense of rive
- simple past tense of reeve
Anagrams
- -vore, Over, Vore, over, over-, vore
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
rove
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of roven
Anagrams
- over, Voer, voer
Finnish
Noun
rove
- Small container made of birch bark.
Declension
Synonyms
- tuokkonen
Anagrams
- vero
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