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Deviate is a related term of rove.


In lang=en terms the difference between deviate and rove

is that deviate is to fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray while rove is to card wool or other fibres.

As nouns the difference between deviate and rove

is that deviate is (sociology) a person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert while rove is a copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.

As verbs the difference between deviate and rove

is that deviate is to go off course from; to change course; to change plans while rove is (obsolete|intransitive) to shoot with arrows (at) or rove can be (rive).

deviate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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]
  • ...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 [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00181184&id=J24AAAAAMAAJ&q=%22a+deviate%22&dq=%22a+deviate%22&pgis=1]
  • 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 [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0631184961&id=e-9OtYRo45cC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=GsTXt6FCAxGzfu9Z1Y5DBjGXb-0]
  • ...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 [http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN28006559&id=sKTVf2R9QcQC&q=%22a+deviate%22&dq=%22a+deviate%22&pgis=1]
  • 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 [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0824704266&id=DHkXkXhpryAC&pg=RA20-PA279&lpg=RA20-PA279&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=V0CUzyD7DlXKCm_ehD84Trl8J5g]
  • 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 [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0470022973&id=czbzO5iD1Z0C&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=%22a+deviate%22&sig=-Erqbq87cIuqSaSOjXqw7Edaabo]
  • 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)
  • To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
  • He's deviating from the course. Follow him!
  • To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
  • His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from local censorship norms .
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.

    Synonyms

    * (change course ): swerve, veer * (stray ): stray, wander

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms ----

    rove

    English

    Etymology 1

    Of uncertain origin; perhaps a dialectal form of (rave).

    Verb

    (rov)
  • (obsolete) To shoot with arrows (at).
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:
  • And thou that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue [...].
  • To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 1
  • Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him.
  • To roam or wander through.
  • * Milton
  • Roving the field, I chanced / A goodly tree far distant to behold.
  • To card wool or other fibres.
  • (Jamieson)
  • To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
  • To draw through an eye or aperture.
  • To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
  • To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
  • (Hakluyt)
    Derived terms
    * rover * roved * roving

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
  • A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
  • The act of wandering; a ramble.
  • * Young
  • In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt.

    Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rive)
  • Anagrams

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