different between diverge vs astray

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin d?verge? (“bend away from, go in a different direction”), from Latin d?- + verg? (“bend”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /da??v??d?/, /d??v??d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??v?d?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Verb

diverge (third-person singular simple present diverges, present participle diverging, simple past and past participle diverged)

1. (intransitive, literally, of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
   • 1916, Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (poem), in Mountain Interval:

     Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / […]

2. (intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
   • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 28:

     The brooding, black-clad singer bridged a stark divide that emerged in the recording industry in the 1950s, as post-Elvis pop singers diverged into two camps and audiences aligned themselves with either the sideburned rebels of rock 'n' roll or the cowboy-hatted twangsters of country music.

   Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.

3. (intransitive, literally, of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).

   The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.

4. (intransitive, figuratively, of an interest, opinion, or anything else) To become different, to separate (from another line or path).

   The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.

5. (intransitive, mathematics, of a sequence, series, or function) Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.

   The sequence ${\displaystyle x_{n}=n^{2}}$ diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.

Antonyms

• converge

Derived terms

• divergence
• divergent

Translations

Anagrams

• grieved

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.v???/

Verb

diverge

1. first-person singular present indicative of diverger
2. third-person singular present indicative of diverger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of diverger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of diverger
5. second-person singular imperative of diverger

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?rd?e

Verb

diverge

1. third-person singular present indicative of divergere

Latin

Verb

d?verg?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of d?verge?

Romanian

Etymology

From French diverger, from Latin divergere.

Verb

a diverge (third-person singular present diverge, past participle [please provide]) 3rd conj.

1. to diverge

Conjugation

Spanish

Verb

diverge

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of divergir.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of divergir.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of divergir.

English

Etymology

From Middle English astraien or by apheresis straien, from Old French estraier (“to stray”), from late Medieval Latin extravagari (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vag?r? (“to wander, stray”).

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

astray

1. In a wrong or unknown and wrongly-motivated direction.

Derived terms

• go astray
• lead astray

Related terms

• stray
• estray

Translations

Further reading

• astray in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• astray at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “astray”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

References

Anagrams

• 'Straya, Straya, atrays, tayras, yartas, yatras