different between distort vs deviate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorque? (“to twist, torture, distort”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s?t??t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s?t??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

distort (third-person singular simple present distorts, present participle distorting, simple past and past participle distorted)

1. (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
2. (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
3. (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of

   In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.

Synonyms

• (to bring something out of shape): deform

Derived terms

• distorter

Related terms

• distorted (adjective)
• distortion

Translations

Adjective

distort (comparative more distort, superlative most distort)

1. (obsolete) Distorted; misshapen.

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?