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swerve
English
Alternative forms
- swarve
Etymology
From Middle English swerven, swarven, from Old English sweorfan (“to file; rub; polish; scour; turn aside”), from Proto-Germanic *swerban? (“to rub off; wipe; mop”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerb?- (“to turn; wipe; sweep”). Cognate with West Frisian swerve (“to wander; roam; swerve”), Dutch zwerven (“to wander; stray; roam”), Low German swarven (“to swerve; wander; riot”), Swedish dialectal svärva (“to wipe”), Icelandic sverfa (“to file”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sw??(?)v/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sw?v/
- Rhymes: -??(r)v
Verb
swerve (third-person singular simple present swerves, present participle swerving, simple past and past participle swerved)
- (archaic) To stray; to wander; to rove.
- A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.
- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
- 1785, The Book of Common Prayer According to the Use in King's Chapel
- I swerve not from thy commandments.
- They swerve from the strict letter of the law.
- October 28, 1705, Francis Atterbury, a sermon
- many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy Faith
- 1785, The Book of Common Prayer According to the Use in King's Chapel
- To bend; to incline.
- To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
- c. 1692, John Dryden, Amaryllis
- The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved.
- c. 1692, John Dryden, Amaryllis
- To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
- Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
- To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
- 1869, Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace, Part 10, Chapter 39:
- The French invaders, like an infuriated animal that has in its onslaught received a mortal wound, felt that they were perishing, but could not stop, any more than the Russian army, weaker by one half, could help swerving.
- 1869, Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace, Part 10, Chapter 39:
Related terms
- swarf
Translations
Noun
swerve (plural swerves)
- A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.
- 1990, American Motorcyclist (volume 44, number 7, page 11)
- The distinction between using a skill subconsciously and employing it in the full knowledge of what was happening made a dramatic difference. I could execute a swerve to avoid an obstacle in a fraction of the time it previously took.
- 1990, American Motorcyclist (volume 44, number 7, page 11)
- A deviation from duty or custom.
- 1874, William Edwin Boardman, Faith-work, Or the Labours of Dr. Cullis, in Boston (page 56)
- […] indubitable evidence of a swerve from the principle of the work.
- 1874, William Edwin Boardman, Faith-work, Or the Labours of Dr. Cullis, in Boston (page 56)
Derived terms
- body swerve
Translations
Anagrams
- Wevers
Middle English
Verb
swerve
- Alternative form of swerven
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err
English
Etymology
From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin err? (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??(?)/, (rare) /??(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /??/, /?/
- Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?)
Verb
err (third-person singular simple present errs, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)
- (intransitive) To make a mistake.
- Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.
- (intransitive) To sin.
- (archaic) to stray.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:make a mistake
Derived terms
Translations
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *ausra (“twilight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ews- (“dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aur?ra, Lithuanian aušrà).
Noun
err m
- dark, darkness
Synonyms
- terr
Derived terms
- irë
Estonian
Noun
err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter R.
Faroese
Noun
err n (genitive singular ers, plural err)
- The name of the Latin-script letter R.
Declension
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??r?]
- Hyphenation: err
- Rhymes: -?r?
Noun
err
- The name of the Latin-script letter R.
Declension
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) bet?; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ?, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ?, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)
Further reading
- r 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
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?/
- Rhymes: -?r?
Noun
err n (genitive singular errs, nominative plural err)
- The name of the Latin-script letter R.
Declension
Võro
Noun
err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter R.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
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