deviate
To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
Adjective
- deviant
- It's somewhat in vogue to give special attention and consideration to the alternative lifestyle, which five years ago we would have called the deviate lifestyle. - 1987 February 1, Kim Westheimer, quoting John...
Origin
From Late Latin dēviātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
Noun
- A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
- […] 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 […] - 1915, James Cornelius Wilson, A Handbook of medical...
- 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 […] - 1959, Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back,...
- […] The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially […] - 2001, Rupert Brown, Group Processes:
Synonyms: deviant degenerate pervert
- A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
- It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130 […] - 1928, Karl J. Holzinger, Statistical Methods for Students in Education:
- 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. - 2001, Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical...
- 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... - 2005, Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: An Introduction Using R:
Origin
From a substantivation of Late Latin dēviātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more.
Forms
Verb
- To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
- These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of...
- Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track. - 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e]...
- Now listen to what you've got to do, and this time if you deviate a single hair or try any of your monkey tricks it's the deep end you'll go off at. - 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
- To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
- His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.
- To cause to diverge.
Origin
From Late Latin dēviātus, perfect passive participle of dēviō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Compare French dévier.