Swerve vs Soviet - What's the difference?
swerve | soviet |
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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A form of governing council in the former Soviet Union.
* 2005 , , The People's Act of Love , Canongate 2006, p. 230:
* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 184:
(historical) The main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union imposed in the Bolshevik in the former imperial Russia.
Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council).
Relating to the ideology, culture or politics of the Soviet Union.
* 1935 , Louis Fischer, Soviet Journey , page 129
* 1947 , Washington Education Association, Washington Education Journal
* 1991 , "Whatchamacallit", in Boston Globe , Aug 27, 1991
* 2004 , "M&S coach Rose makes his pitch", in Times Online , Nov 14, 2004
* 2005 , Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram, Nancy Jane Hodes, Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949 , page 575
* 2006 , Kate Transchel, ''Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural ..., page 136
* 2006 , SG Inge-Vechtomov, "From the Mutation Theory to the Theory of the Mutation Process", in NATO Security through Science Series B
* 2007 , Comment on Fred Hiatt, "A Soviet Memorial -- and Mind-Set: How far Russia has regressed became shockingly evident last week when Vladimir Putin's Russia unleashed a barrage against neighboring Estonia.", Washington Post , May 7, 2007
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As a verb swerve
is to stray; to wander; to rove.As a noun soviet is
a form of governing council in the former Soviet Union.As an adjective soviet is
pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council).As a proper noun Soviet is
any of the governing workers' councils in the Soviet Union.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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soviet
English
Noun
(en noun)- Kratochvil, Jedlicka, Safar, Kubes and Vasata, who always took an interest in politics, set up a soviet in the last wagon and uncoupled it from the rest of the train in the night.
- Workers' committees were forming embryo soviets , soldiers' and sailors' collectives had whole ships and regiments under their temporary command, landless workers in the countryside were taking over abandoned farms and properties.
Adjective
(en adjective)- An engineer who is not very soviet in his convictions is the hero.
- Why are separate divisions for teachers and administrators in a state organization any more "soviet" than the same divisions in a city educational [....]
- The Soviet government is not very soviet anymore or, for that matter, much of a government.
- "It felt very soviet , very intimidating", said Steven Sharp, one of Rose’s closest lieutenants.
- [...] that has been enlarged most quickly and widely is the very soviet region newly created in northern Sichuan.
- One tactic was to become more "soviet" than vanguard workers by enthusiastically participating in the regime's productivity campaigns such as shock work,
- Lobashev was of completely proletarian origin. He was a very soviet person.
- There are 3 kinds of Russian speakers in Estonia: a Those that have taken out Estonian Citizenship, b Those that took out Russian citizenship and are therefore loyal to Russia, c those that have not taken either citizenship and are still very soviet in mindstate.
