Detour vs Derail - What's the difference?
detour | derail |
A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
A device placed on railway tracks causing a train to derail.
To cause to come off the tracks.
To come off the tracks.
To deviate from the previous course or direction.
To cause to deviate from a set course or direction.
As nouns the difference between detour and derail
is that detour is detour while derail is a device placed on railway tracks causing a train to derail.As a verb derail is
to cause to come off the tracks.detour
English
Noun
(en noun)- On the third day I made a detour westward to avoid the country of the Band-lu, as I did not care to be detained by a meeting with To-jo.
Anagrams
*derail
English
(wikipedia derail)Noun
(en noun)- The derail was placed deliberately so that the train would fall into the river.
Verb
(en verb)- The train was destroyed when it was derailed by the penny.
- The conversation derailed once James brought up politics.
- The protesting students derailed the professor's lecture.