Overtake vs Diverge - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between overtake and diverge

is that overtake is to pass a more slowly moving object while diverge is .

To pass a more slowly moving object.

To catch up with, but not pass, a more slowly moving vehicle, animal etc.

"I overtook' and passed the doctor between Woking and Send." '''1898 ,

(economics) To become greater than something else

To occur unexpectedly

"Our plans were overtaken by events."

* English irregular verbs

(diverg)

(intransitive, literally, of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.

* 1916 , :

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both /

To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.

Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.

(intransitive, literally, of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).

The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.

To become different, to separate (from another line or path).

The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.

Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.

The sequence $x_n = n^2$ diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.

* converge

* divergence * divergent

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