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Definition: SWERVED |
SWERVEDImperative & past participle1. Of Swerve |
Date "SWERVED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: SWERVED |
| Etymologies containing "SWERVED": Swerve. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right (Last Kiss; performing artist: Pearl Jam) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And now a light truck approached, and as it came near, the driver saw the turtle and swerved to hit it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "SWERVED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 89.19% of the time. "SWERVED" is used about 111 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 (past tense) | 89.19% | 99 | 32,870 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 9.91% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.9% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 111 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
swerved | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SWERVED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 偏向 (swerving). (various references) | ||||
German | wich aus (dodged, eluded, shunned, side stepped). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ervedsway | ||||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Timothy Chapter 1, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Wn tineV astochsanteV exetraphsan eiV mataiologian |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | A quibus quidam aberrantes conversi sunt in vaniloquium |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Fro whiche thingis sum men han errid, and ben turned in to veyn speche; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Fro the which thinges some have erred and have turned vnto vayne iangelinge |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | From which some having swerved, have turned aside to vain jangling; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 1 Timothy Chapter 1, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | Adunay pipila ka mga tawo nga tungod sa ilang paghitipas gikan niining mga butanga nahisalaag ngadto sa walay kapuslanan nga mga pagtabi, |
| Chinese | 有 人 偏 離 這 些 、 反 去 講 虛 浮 的 話 ． |
| Croatian | To su neki promašili i zastranili u praznorjeèje; |
| Danish | hvorfra nogle ere afvegne og have vendt sig til intetsigende Snak, |
| Dutch | Van dewelke sommigen afgeweken zijnde, zich gewend hebben tot ijdelspreking; |
| Finnish | Muutamat ovat hairahtuneet niistä pois ja poikenneet turhiin jaarituksiin, |
| French | Quelques-uns, s`étant détournés de ces choses, se sont égarés dans de vains discours; |
| German | wovon etliche sind abgeirrt und haben sich umgewandt zu unnützem Geschwätz, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ada sebagian orang yang sudah tidak hidup seperti itu lagi, dan tersesat dalam perdebatan-perdebatan yang tidak ada gunanya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | maka ada beberapa orang yang menyimpang daripada perkara ini, lalu berpaling kepada pertuturan yang sia-sia, |
| Italian | Proprio deviando da questa linea, alcuni si sono volti a fatue verbosit , |
| Latvian | No tâ daþi nomaldîjuðies un pievçrsuðies tukðvârdîbai. |
| Maori | Kapea ake enei e etahi, kotiti ke ana ki nga korero teka noa; |
| Norwegian | Fra dette har nogen faret vill og vendt sig bort til tomt snakk, |
| Portuguese | das quais coisas alguns se desviaram, e se entregaram a discursos vãos, |
| Rumanian | Unii, fiindcq s`au depqrtat de aceste lucruri, au rqtqcit wi s`au apucat de flecqrii. |
| Russian | ПФ ЮЕЗП ПФУФХ ЙЧ, ОЕЛПФПТЩЕ ХЛМПОЙМЙУШ Ч ХУФПУМПЧЙЕ, |
| Shuar | Chíkich shuar juna iniaisar ántar chichaman áujmatainiawai. |
| Spanish | Algunos de ellos, habiéndose desviado, se apartaron en pos de vanas palabrerías, |
| Swahili | Watu wengine wamepotoka na kugeukia majadiliano yasiyo na maana. |
| Swedish | Från dessa stycken hava somliga farit vilse och vänt sin håg till fåfängligt tal -- |
| Uma | Ria-ra ba hangkuja dua tauna to uma-pi mpotuku' ohea toe. Meleli' -ramo ngkai ohea to makono, pai' -ra ntora mpololita lolita to uma ria kalaua-na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"SWERVED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: servend, swerev, swired, swirve, sworve. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SWERVED" (pronounced swer"vd) |
| 3 | -er" v d | conserved, curved, deserved, observed, preserved, reserved, served, underserved, undeserved, unnerved. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-r-s-v-w" | |
-1 letter: reweds, served, swerve, versed. | |
-2 letters: deers, drees, ewers, redes, reeds, resew, rewed, seder, sered, serve, sever, sewed, sewer, swede, sweer, veers, verse, weeds. | |
-3 letters: deer, dees, dere, devs, dews, dree, drew, ever, eves, ewer, ewes, rede, reds, reed, rees, revs, seed, seer, sere, veer, vees, weds, weed, weer, wees, were. | |
-4 letters: dee, dev, dew. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-r-s-v-w" | |
+2 letters: oversewed. | |
+3 letters: silverweed. | |
+4 letters: heavenwards, overbrowsed, overstrewed, screwdriver, semidwarves, silverweeds, viewfinders, weaverbirds. | |
+5 letters: overshadowed, screwdrivers. | |
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