Diverge

Definition: Diverge

Diverge

Verb

1. Move or draw apart; "The two paths diverge here".

2. Have no limits; used of mathematical series.

3. Extend in a different direction; "The lines start to diverge here"; "Their interests diverged".

4. Be at variance with; be out of line with.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "diverge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Note: Diverge \Di*verge"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Diverged; present participle verb or noun Diverging.]. (Websters 1913)

Computing

Transportation

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Synonyms: Diverge

Deviation

Stray, straggle; sidle; diverge; tralineate; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy.

Divergence

Verb: diverge, divaricate, radiate; ramify; branch off, glance off, file off; fly off, fly off at a tangent; spread, scatter, disperse; deviate; part; (separate).

Variation

Noun: variation; alteration; (change). modification, moods and tenses; discrepance, discrepancy. divergency; deviation; aberration; innovation. Verb: vary; (change); deviate; diverge; alternate, swerve.

Crosswords: Diverge

French (diverges), Romanian (diverge).

Where Paths Diverge (1914)

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Books

• Improvisation: Serious Fun for the Classroom A.K.A. the Urge to Diverge (reference)

• Restive Partners: Washington and Bonn Diverge (Studies in Global Security) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Economic History

Brazil

Brazilian trade statistics, on the other hand, show that Brazil ran a small trade surplus with the U.S. U.S. and Brazilian trade figures diverge for various reasons, but both show a strong growth in trade. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "diverge": diverge from ♦ diverge from the truth. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afwyk (aberrate, deflect, deviate, turn, wander). (various references)

Albanian

divergjoj, devijoj (digress, divert, sidetrack), degëzohem (bifurcate, branch, branch off, furcate, ramify), shmangem (circumvent, deflect, depart, deviate, dodge, duck, escape, eschew, fence, fend off, fight shy of, forbear, funk, give a wide berth, glance, jink, jump, keep one's distance, leapfrog, Miss, Parry, refrain, shirk, shun, sidestep, steer clear of, tergiversate, wander), rritet pa kufi, ndryshojnë, ndahen. (various references)

Arabic 

‏حرف (brim, brink, character, contort, corrupt, deviate, distort, edge, falsify, garble, letter, list, margin, misrepresent, particle, slant, tamper, torture, twist, wrest), ‏تشعب (bisect, branch, calve, divergence, fork, offshoot, radiate, ramification, ramify, split, split up), ‏تباعد (space, splay), ‏إنفرج (spread), ‏إنحرف (astrict, deflect, depart, deviate, deviate from, divert, drift, incline, jibe, jump, nose, pervert, sidetrack, skew, slew, slue, squint, stray, swerve, swing, turn, veer), ‏إستطرد (digress), ‏إختلف (differ, vary). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разклонявам се (branch, branch out, divaricate, fork, furcate, part), различавам се (differ, disagree, divide, vary), отклонявам се (break, depart, deviate, digress, dissent, dodge, oblique, part, run off, stray, swerve, swing, take off, turn aside, turn off, wander). (various references)

Chinese 

�" (astray, branch in a road), 分流 (Diverged, Diverging). (various references)

Czech

rozcházet se, rozbíhat, rùznit se (vary). (various references)

Danish

strækningsforgrening (demerge). (various references)

Dutch

vertakking (branching, demerge, junction, lineage, ramification, roadway junction), knooppunt (knot, node), afwýken (aberrate, deflect, deviate, turn, wander). (various references)

Esperanto

flankeniĝi (deflect, wander). (various references)

Farsi 

واگراءیدن , انشعاب یافتن , ازهم دورشدن , اختلاف پیداکردن . (various references)

Finnish

haarauma (demerge, lineage), erkaneminen (demerge, diverging, leaving a traffic stream). (various references)

French

décongestionnement, se séparer, se diverger (divide), se dévier, s'écarter (digress), embranchement, bifurcation. (various references)

Frisian

ôfwike (aberrate, deflect, deviate, turn, wander). (various references)

German

divergieren (diverging). (various references)

Greek 

αποκλίνω (aberrate, deflect). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"סתעף (branch out, ramify), לסטות (deviate, go astray, pervert, robbery, stray, turn aside, wayward). (various references)

Hungarian

eltér (aberrate, back away, deviate, differ, swerve, to angle, to be unlike sg, to deflect, to depart, to deviate, to go off, to go out of one's way, to turn off, to yaw, turn), elágazik (branch, ramify, to branch, to diverge, to fork). (various references)

Indonesian

menyimpang (afield, deviate, discursive, irrelevant), berbeda (be different, differential, disparate). (various references)

Italian

divergere (differ, divide, part), diramazione (branch, fork, issuing, ramification, sending out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

分かれ出る (to branch out, to diverge, to radiate), 分かれる (to branch off, to dispense, to diverge from, to divide into, to fork, to scatter, to split). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

わかれでる (to branch out, to diverge, to radiate), わかれる (to be divided, to bid farewell, to branch off, to dispense, to diverge from, to divide into, to fork, to part from, to scatter, to separate, to split). (various references)

Korean 

분기하십시�". (various references)

Manx

scarrey (alienate, alienation, break away, break off, break up, come away, detach, detachment; spread, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjunction, dissociate, dissociation, distinguish, disunion, disunite, divergence, divide, divorce, draw apart; spacing, insulation, leaving, part, part with, parting, relinquish, schism, secede, secession, segment, segregate, segregation, separate, separating, separation, sever, severance, shut off, slough, split up, start, sunder). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivergeday

Portuguese

divergir (differ, disagree, discord, dissent, divaricate), desvio (break, canting, crossroad, departure, detour, deviousness, digression, diversion, leakage, meander, misapplication, roundabout, set, sidetrack, switch, turn, turnabout, turning, veering), desviar (avert, deflect, depart, detour, deviate, digress, divert, err, fend, foil, head off, parry, shunt, swerve, ward off), bifurcação (bifurcation, chevron, divarication, embranchment, furcation, parting, turnabout), afastar (alienate, avert, call away, depart, deviate, dispel, distract, divert, do away with, eliminate, estrange, fend, get rid of, hold off, keep away, keep off, lay off, make away, move away, obviate, relegate, remove, repel, retire, rid, separate, wean, withdraw). (various references)

Romanian

diverge, devia (deflect, depart, digress, drift, glance, straggle, swerve, wander, warp), se abate (deflect, deviate, stray, swerve), fi în divergenţã, fi în dezacord (be at issue, disaccord, disagree, jar). (various references)

Russian 

отклоняться (deflect, depart, deviate, digress, incline, sheered, sheering, sheers, trend, turn aside, wander). (various references)

Scottish

speuc , spiac. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skretati (diffract), razilaziti se (split up), razići se (disband, disperse, fall out, split up), odvajati se. (various references)

Spanish

desviarse (aberrate, backslide, break, deflect, detour, deviate, sheer off, turn, turn aside, turn off, vary, wander). (various references)

Swedish

avvika (abscond, deflect, depart from, deviate, differ, digress, dissent). (various references)

Thai

แตกต่างกัน. (various references)

Turkish

uyuşmamak (be at variable with, clash, disaccord, disagree), sapmak (bear, deflect, detour, deviate, digress, diverge from, lapse, lead away from, oblique, sheer, sheer away, sheer from, sheer off, slant, stray, swerve, swing, turn, turn aside, turn off, turn up, wander, wander off), farklı olmak (be different, differ, vary), birbirinden uzaklaşmak, ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, graduate, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), açılmak (admit smb. into one's confidence, air, bare, be opened, become relaxed, come loose, come open, come undone, disclose one's secret, disentangle, disperse, effuse, expand, fine, flower, gape, get loose, go up, loosen, loosen up, open, open in, open oneself, open out, open up, recrudesce, refresh, spread, thaw, unbend, uncurl, unfasten, unfold, unfurl, unload, untwine, untwist, unwind, work loose, yawn). (various references)

Turkmen 

gyюarmak (lean, slant). (various references)

Ukrainian

розходитися (disaccord, disband, dismiss, disperse, drop off), відрізнятися (differ, differentiate, vary), відхилятися (bear off, deflect, deviate, incline, lapse, run off, skew, stray, swerve, trend, turn, turn aside). (various references)

divergere. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "diverge": diverged, divergence, divergences, divergencies, divergency, divergent, divergently, diverges. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Diverge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Devere, deverge, Devergie, divage, diverce, divergen, diverger, diverne, diverte, doeverie, Drivage, Duverger. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: grieved.

-1 letter: derive, edgier, grieve, regive, reived, verged.

-2 letters: dirge, diver, drive, edger, eider, giver, greed, gride, reive, ridge, rived, vegie, verge.

-3 letters: deer, dere, dire, dive, dree, dreg, edge, eger, eide, ever, geed, gied, gird, give, gree, grid, ired, rede, reed, ride, rive, veer, vide, vied, vier.

-4 letters: dee, dev, die, dig, ere, erg, eve.

+1 letter: diverged, diverges.

+2 letters: aggrieved, deserving, divergent, gerundive, graveside, vinegared.

+3 letters: degressive, delivering, derogative, deservings, digressive, divergence, divergency, everduring, gerundives, gravesides, overdesign, overdyeing, overgilded, overgirded, privileged, variegated.

+4 letters: aggrievedly, bedcovering, bedriveling, degradative, denervating, denigrative, desilvering, dissevering, divergences, divergently, endeavoring, lavendering, misgoverned, overdecking, overdesigns, overediting, overfeeding, overindulge, overlending, overlighted, overnighted, overseeding, overweighed, stevedoring, undeserving, verdigrises.

+5 letters: bedcoverings, bedrivelling, degenerative, degressively, derogatively, digressively, divergencies, endeavouring, overdesigned, overdressing, overfatigued, overindulged, overindulges, overpedaling, overspending, overweighted, prerogatived, redelivering, redeveloping, unprivileged, videographer.

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