Deviate

Noun

 * 1)  A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
 * 2) * 1915: James Cornelius Wilson, A Handbook of medical diagnosis
 * ...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...
 * 1) * 1959: Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back, Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing
 * 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 ...
 * 1) * 2001: Rupert Brown, Group Processes
 * ...The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially...
 * 1)  A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
 * 2) * 1928: Karl J. Holzinger, Statistical Methods for Students in Education
 * It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130...
 * 1) * 2001: Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical Biostatistics
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2005: Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: An Introduction Using R
 * 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...

Verb

 * 1)  To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
 * He's deviating from the course. Follow him!
 * 1)  To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
 * His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from local censorship norms.

Synonyms for Deviate

 * (change course): swerve, veer
 * (stray): stray, wander
 * deflect, digress, turn, depart from, divert, shift, shunt.

Antonyms for Deviate
direct, straight, unswerving, directly, straightforward, persevere, continue.

Related terms

 * deviant
 * deviation

Thesaurus
alter, ameliorate, angle, angle off, be changed, be converted into, be distinct, be distinguished, be in error, be mistaken, be renewed, be wrong, bear off, bend, bias, bottom out, branch off, break, bypass, change, change the bearing, checker, chop, chop and change, clash with, come about, come around, come round, conflict with, contrast with, crook, curve, deflect, degenerate, depart, depart from, deteriorate, detour, deviant, deviate from, differ, diffract, diffuse, digress, disaccord with, disagree with, disperse, distort, divagate, divaricate, divaricate from, diverge, diverge from, diversify, divert, dogleg, drift, err, excurse, fall into error, flop, get sidetracked, go amiss, go around, go astray, go awry, go round about, go wrong, hairpin, haul around, heel, improve, jar with, jibe, lapse, make a detour, maunder, meliorate, misbelieve, miscalculate, mitigate, modulate, mutate, not accord with, not square with, oblique, pervert, pull, ramble, refract, revive, scatter, serve Mammon, sex criminal, sex fiend, sexual deviant, sexual deviate, sexual pervert, sexual psychopath, sheer, shift, skew, slip, slip up, slue, stand apart, stand over against, stray, stumble, sway, swerve, tack, take a turn, trend, trip, turn, turn aside, turn away, turn into, turn the corner, twist, undergo a change, vary, veer, wander, warp, worsen, zigzag

Etymology
Late deviatus, past participle of deviare, from the phrase de via.

Pronunciation

 * Verb:
 * dē'vēāt, /ˈdiːvieɪt/, /"di:vieIt/
 * Noun:
 * dē'vēət, /ˈdiːviət/, /"di:vi@t/

Noun

 * Finnish: poikkeava henkilö
 * Danish: afvige

Verb

 * Bulgarian: отклонявам се
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Hebrew: סטה
 * Macedonian: да се застрани
 * Romanian: devia
 * Russian: отклоняться; уклоняться ('from'; similar to 'to evade' - has usually negative meaning)


 * Bulgarian: отклонявам се
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Romanian: devia
 * Russian: отклоняться

Anagrams

 * evadite

Verb form
deviate


 * 1) second-person plural present tense, present subjunctive and imperative of deviare

Anagrams

 * vediate
 * videate