different between deviation vs reform

English

Etymology

From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatioMorphologically deviate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /divi?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

deviation (countable and uncountable, plural deviations)

1. The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road
2. A departure from the correct way of acting
3. The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.

4. (contract law) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.
5. (Absolute Deviation) The shortest distance between the center of the target and the point where a projectile hits or bursts.
6. (statistics) For interval variables and ratio variables, a measure of difference between the observed value and the mean.
7. (metrology) The signed difference between a value and its reference value.

Derived terms

Related terms

• deviance
• deviate
• deviant

Translations

Anagrams

• antivideo

Danish

Noun

deviation c (singular definite deviationen, plural indefinite deviationer)

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Declension

Further reading

• “deviation” in Den Danske Ordbog

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French reformer, from Latin reformo, reformare. As a noun since 1660s, from French réforme.

Pronunciation

• ("to form again"):
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??i??f??m/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i??f??m/
• (other senses):
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /???f??m/, /???f??m/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???f??m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m

Noun

reform (countable and uncountable, plural reforms)

1. The change of something that is defective, broken, inefficient or otherwise negative, in order to correct or improve it
   • 19 February 2011, Barack Obama, Presidential Weekly Address, America Will Win the Future

     ...over the past two years, my administration has made education a top priority. We’ve launched a competition called “Race to the Top” – a reform that is lifting academic standards and getting results; not because Washington dictated the answers, but because states and local schools pursued innovative solutions.

Synonyms

• reformation
• amendment
• rectification
• correction

Derived terms

• monetary reform

Related terms

• reformation

Translations

Verb

reform (third-person singular simple present reforms, present participle reforming, simple past and past participle reformed)

1. (transitive) To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better
   • 15 January 2018, Adebisi Onanuga and Robert Egbe in The Nation, ‘How we stopped DPP’s office from being used to settle scores’

     In this interview with Law Editors and Correspondents, he speaks on the gains of reforming the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP), efforts to keep underage persons out of jail.

   • 1909, H. G. Wells, The History of Mr. Polly Chapter 9

   to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals; to reform a criminal

   • “There was always something a bit wrong with him,” she said, “but nothing you mightn’t have hoped for, not till they took him and carried him off and reformed him"
2. (intransitive) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits

3. (transitive, intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.

   This product contains reformed meat.

Synonyms

• (put into a better condition): amend, correct, rectify, mend, repair, better, improve, restore, reclaim

Translations

References

reform in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• Wells, John, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, ?ISBN, page 640

Further reading

• "reform" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 262.

Anagrams

• former

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?f?rm/, [???f??m]

Noun

reform c (singular definite reformen, plural indefinite reformer)

1. reform

Declension

References

• “reform” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “reform” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Hungarian

Etymology

From English reform and German Reform, from French réforme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r?form]
• Hyphenation: re?form
• Rhymes: -orm

Noun

reform (plural reformok)

1. reform

   Synonym: újítás

Declension

References

Further reading

• reform in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French réforme

Noun

reform m (definite singular reformen, indefinite plural reformer, definite plural reformene)

1. reform

Related terms

• reformere

References

• “reform” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French réforme

Noun

reform f (definite singular reforma, indefinite plural reformer, definite plural reformene)

1. reform

References

• “reform” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?f?rm/

Noun

reform c

1. reform

Declension

Related terms

• högskolereform
• reformation
• reformator
• reformatorisk
• reformera
• reformist
• reformistisk
• reformutrymme
• stavningsreform

References

• reform in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Anagrams

• former

Turkish

Etymology

From French réforme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???fo?m/

Noun

reform (definite accusative reformu, plural reformlar)

1. reform

Further reading

• reform in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu