Deviate vs Derogate - What's the difference?
deviate | derogate |
(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
(obsolete) To partially repeal (a law etc.).
* Sir M. Hale
To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle.
* 1642 , (John Milton), An Apology for Smectymnuus :
* 1999 , Ziva Kunda, Social Cognition , p. 222:
* 2001 , Russell Cropanzano, Justice in the Workplace , vol. II, p. 104:
(ambitransitive) To take away (something (from) something else) in a way which leaves it lessened.
* Sir T. More
* Burke
To remove a part, to detract (from) (a quality of excellence, authority etc.).
* 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 147 (ISBN 1857150570)
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.19:
* 1967 , "The undoing of Dodd", Time , 5 Dec 1967:
To act in a manner below oneself; to debase oneself.
* c. 1611 , (William Shakespeare), Cymbeline , II.1:
* Hazlitt
(archaic) debased
:* 1605', Dry up in her the organs of increase, / And from her '''derogate body never spring / A babe to honour her. — William Shakespeare, ''King Lear I.iv
In intransitive terms the difference between deviate and derogate
is that deviate is to fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray while derogate is to act in a manner below oneself; to debase oneself.As a noun deviate
is a person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.As an adjective derogate is
debased.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.
Synonyms
* (change course ): swerve, veer * (stray ): stray, wanderAnagrams
* English heteronyms ----derogate
English
Verb
- By several contrary customs, many of the civil and canon laws are controlled and derogated .
- I never thought the human frailty of erring in cases of religion, infamy to a state, no more than to a council: it had therefore been neither civil nor christianly, to derogate the honour of the state for that cause [...].
- When the need for self-affirmation is satisfied through other means, one is less compelled to derogate members of negatively setereotyped groups.
- Bandura (1990) gave a related example of gas chamber operators in Nazi prison camps, who found it necessary to derogate and dehumanize their victims rather than become overwhelmed by distress.
- Anything that should derogate , minish, or hurt his glory and his name.
- It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity.
- In doing so she had derogated from her dignity and committed herself.
- God does not have the attributes of a Christian Providence, for it would derogate from His perfection to think about anything except what is perfect, i.e. Himself.
- The six-member Committee on Standards and Conduct unanimously recommended that the Senate censure the Connecticut Democrat for behavior that is "contrary to good morals, derogates from the public trust expected of a Senator, and tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
- CLOTEN. Is it fit I went to look upon him? Is there no derogation in't?
- SECOND LORD. You cannot derogate , my lord.
- Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors? Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line?