Diverge vs Swerve - What's the difference?
diverge | swerve |
(intransitive, literally, of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
* 1916 , :
To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
(intransitive, literally, of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
To become different, to separate (from another line or path).
Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
To stray; to wander; to rove.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
* Book of Common Prayer
* Clarendon
* Atterbury
To bend; to incline.
* Milton
To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
* Dryden
To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
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As verbs the difference between diverge and swerve
is that diverge is while swerve is to stray; to wander; to rove.diverge
English
Verb
(diverg)- Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both /
- Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.
- The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.
- The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.
- The sequence diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.
Antonyms
* convergeDerived terms
* divergence * divergentAnagrams
* ----swerve
English
Verb
(swerv)- A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve .
- The point [of the sword] swerved .
- I swerve not from thy commandments.
- They swerve from the strict letter of the law.
- many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion
- The battle swerved .
- The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved .
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