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Definition: DEVIATING |
DEVIATINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Deviate |
Date "DEVIATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1754. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Syn. for deflecting. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deviation | Adjective: deviating; Verb: aberrant, errant; excursive, discursive; devious, desultory, loose; rambling; stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag; crab-like. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DEVIATING |
| English words defined with "DEVIATING": anomalous, Antichronical, atypical ♦ circuitous, curious ♦ Deflected, depraved, devious ♦ exceptional ♦ fabrication, funny ♦ Heteroclite, Heteroclitical, Heteromorphic ♦ immoral, irregular ♦ leaning, lying ♦ oblong, odd ♦ Paracentrical, peculiar, perverse, perversity, perverted, prevarication ♦ queer ♦ regular, reprobate, roundabout, rum, rummy ♦ singular, Subtypical ♦ untypical ♦ wild. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DEVIATING": electrical resistance inclinometer ♦ on line ♦ Remedial Teaching, Round Dealing. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Indonesia | The Government attempts to monitor Islamic groups considered to be deviating from orthodox tenets, and in the past has dissolved some groups. (references) |
Economic History | Peru | However, the constitutional pledges that foreign investors enjoy national treatment have not prevented the government from deviating from that policy on occasion. (references) |
Trade | Dominican Rep | Nevertheless, companies should review existing legislation and rules last published in 1990 if exports deviating from U.S. standards in labeling and marking are intended to be imported into the Dominican Republic from the United States. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DEVIATING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DEVIATING" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 29 | 64,444 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DEVIATING": deviating force. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DEVIATING": non-deviating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DEVIATING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | منحرف مائل (corrupted, inclined, oblique, perverse, tilted). (various references) | |
Chinese | 偏离 (Deviate, Deviated). (various references) | |
Danish | drejeprisme (deviating prism), dobbelt vendeprisme (deviating prism), vendespejl (deviating mirror), vendeprisme (deviating prism, prism attachment), corioliskraft (Coriolis force, deflecting force, deviating force), afbøjende kraft (Coriolis force, deflecting force, deviating force). (various references) | |
Dutch | onregelmatig (irregular), anomaal (divergent), afwýkend (aberrant, divergent). (various references) | |
Esperanto | anomalia (divergent). (various references) | |
Finnish | kulmaprisma (deviating prism), coriolisvoima (Coriolis force, deflecting force, deviating force). (various references) | |
French | déviant (deviant), anomal. (various references) | |
German | abschwenkend. (various references) | |
Greek | κάτοπτρο εκτροπής (deviating mirror), πρίσμα εκτροπής (deviating prism), οριζόντια εκτρεπτική δύναμη (Coriolis force, deflecting force, deviating force), δύναμη CORIOLIS (Coriolis force, deflecting force, deviating force), διάταξη με περιστρεφόμενο πρίσμα (deviating prism, prism attachment). (various references) | |
Italian | doppia innervazione (double deviating innervation), dispositivo a prisma rotativo (deviating prism), specchio deflettore (deviating mirror), prisma di deviazione (deviating prism), forza di Coriolis (Coriolis force, deflecting force, deviating force). (various references) | |
Korean | 일탈. (various references) | |
Manx | er shaghryn (adrift, astray, betrayed, bewildered, erring, erroneous, lost, stray), anyeeragh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eviatingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anômalo (abnormal, anomalous). (various references) | |
Russian | отклоняться отклоняющийся. (various references) | |
Spanish | diverso (different, differing, diverse, miscellaneous, varied, various). (various references) | |
Swedish | omvändningsprisma (deviating prism), corioliskraft (Coriolis force, deflecting force, deviating force). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DEVIATING": undeviating. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DEVIATING": undeviatingly. (additional references) | |
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"DEVIATING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desiatin, desiatiny, devasting, Dvaitin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-i-i-n-t-v" | |
-1 letter: ideating, vanitied. | |
-2 letters: deaving, deviant, dieting, editing, evading, eviting, ignited, inedita, invited, vintage. | |
-3 letters: advent, aiding, avidin, dating, dative, detain, dieing, divine, diving, eating, gained, gaited, ignite, indite, ingate, invade, invite, native, nidget, tanged, tiding, tieing, tineid, tinged. | |
-4 letters: agent, anted, daven, davit, deign, digit, dinge, divan, entia, ganev, gated, genii, giant, given, indie. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-i-i-n-t-v" | |
+2 letters: advertising, advertizing, denigrative, designative, dovetailing, invaginated, invigilated, invigorated, undeviating, vaginitides, videotaping. | |
+3 letters: advertisings, deactivating, derivatizing, devitalizing, investigated, revalidating. | |
+4 letters: animadverting, reinvigorated, undeviatingly. | |
+5 letters: disintegrative, overmedicating, redintegrative, reinvestigated. | |
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