deviate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Late Latin deviatus, past participle of deviare, from the phrase de via.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Verb
- Noun
Noun[edit]
deviate (plural deviates)
- (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...
- (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...
- 1928: Karl J. Holzinger, Statistical Methods for Students in Education [4]
Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]
deviate (third-person singular simple present deviates, present participle deviating, simple past and past participle deviated)
- (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
- These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no symptoms of approaching the suburbs of a large city.
- 1709, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W. Lewis […], published 1711, OCLC 15810849:
- Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
- His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.
- 2021 February 9, “The double-edged sword of movie stardom remains the same as it ever was: when a persona is so fixed in the public mind, it's what people love you for, and it becomes difficult to deviate from.”, in BBC[7]:
- (transitive) To cause to diverge.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
To go off course from; to change course; to change plans
To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray
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Italian[edit]
Verb[edit]
deviate
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
dēviāte
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