Embezzle vs Deviate - What's the difference?
embezzle | deviate |
(legal, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
* 1903, , Twelve Stories and a Dream
* 1861,
(sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
* 1915: James Cornelius Wilson, A Handbook of medical diagnosis [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC56783761&id=4B7nMfNnIZkC&pg=PA346&lpg=PA346&dq=%22a+deviate%22&as_brr=1]
* 1959: Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back, Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00181184&id=J24AAAAAMAAJ&q=%22a+deviate%22&dq=%22a+deviate%22&pgis=1]
* 2001: Rupert Brown, Group Processes [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0631184961&id=e-9OtYRo45cC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=GsTXt6FCAxGzfu9Z1Y5DBjGXb-0]
(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 [http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN28006559&id=sKTVf2R9QcQC&q=%22a+deviate%22&dq=%22a+deviate%22&pgis=1]
* 2001: Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical Biostatistics [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0824704266&id=DHkXkXhpryAC&pg=RA20-PA279&lpg=RA20-PA279&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=V0CUzyD7DlXKCm_ehD84Trl8J5g]
* 2005: Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: An Introduction Using R [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0470022973&id=czbzO5iD1Z0C&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=-Erqbq87cIuqSaSOjXqw7Edaabo]
To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
* Alexander Pope
As verbs the difference between embezzle and deviate
is that embezzle is (legal|business) to steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works while deviate is to go off course from; to change course; to change plans.As a noun deviate is
(sociology) a person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.embezzle
English
Verb
(en-verb)- You waste your education in burglary. You should do one of two things. Either you should forge or you should embezzle'. For my own part, I ' embezzle .
- You let Dunsey have it, sir? And how long have you been so thick with Dunsey that you must collogue with him to embezzle my money?
Synonyms
* defalcate * misappropriate * peculateDerived terms
* embezzler * embezzlementReferences
deviate
English
Noun
(en noun)- ...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...
- 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 ...
- ...The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially...
- It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130...
- 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.
- 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
(deviat)- He's deviating from the course. Follow him!
- His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from local censorship norms .
- Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.
