different between waive vs deviate

English

Alternative forms

• wave (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?v, IPA^(key): /we?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v
• Homophone: wave

Etymology 1

From Middle English weyven (“to avoid, renounce”), from Anglo-Norman weyver (“to abandon, allow to become a waif”), from waif (“waif”).

Verb

waive (third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived)

1. (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego.

   If you waive the right to be silent, anything you say can be used against you in a court of law.

   1. (particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.
2. (now rare) To put aside, avoid.
   • a. 1683, Isaac Barrow, Sermon LIX, “Of obedience to our spiritual guides and governors”:

     […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others

3. (obsolete) To outlaw (someone).
4. (obsolete) To abandon, give up (someone or something).

Derived terms

• waivable
• waiver

Related terms

• waiver
• waif

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English weyven (“to wave, waver”), from Old Norse veifa (“to wave, swing”) (Norwegian veiva), from Proto-Germanic *waibijan?.

Verb

waive (third-person singular simple present waives, present participle waiving, simple past and past participle waived)

1. (obsolete) To move from side to side; to sway.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To stray, wander.
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant’s Tale”, Canterbury Tales:

     ye been so ful of sapience / That yow ne liketh, for youre heighe prudence, / To weyven fro the word of Salomon.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Anglo-Norman waive, probably as the past participle of weyver, as Etymology 1, above.

Noun

waive (plural waives)

1. (obsolete, law) A woman put out of the protection of the law; an outlawed woman.
2. (obsolete) A waif; a castaway.

   • […] what a wretched, and disconsolate hermitage is that house, which is not visited by thee, and what a waive and stray is that man, that hath not thy marks upon him?

Translations

Anagrams

• aview

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?