Distort vs Derail - What's the difference?
distort | derail |
To bring something out of shape.
(ergative) To become misshapen.
To give a false or misleading account of
(obsolete) distorted; misshapen
* Spenser
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.
In lang=en terms the difference between distort and derail
is that distort is to give a false or misleading account of while derail is to cause to deviate from a set course or direction.As verbs the difference between distort and derail
is that distort is to bring something out of shape while derail is to cause to come off the tracks.As an adjective distort
is (obsolete) distorted; misshapen.As a noun derail is
a device placed on railway tracks causing a train to derail.distort
English
Verb
(en verb)- In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
Derived terms
* distorterAdjective
(en adjective)- Her face was ugly and her mouth distort .
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.
