Definitions for deviates

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deviates de·vi·ate

Spelling: [verb dee-vee-eyt; adjective, noun dee-vee-it]

IPA: /verb ˈdi viˌeɪt; adjective, noun ˈdi vi ɪt/

Deviates is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 294 anagrams from letters in deviates (adeeistv).

Definitions for deviates

noun

1. a person or thing that departs from the accepted norm or standard.
2. a person whose sexual behavior departs from the norm in a way that is considered socially or morally unacceptable.
3. Statistics. a variable equal to the difference between a variate and some fixed value, often the mean.

adjective

1. characterized by deviation or departure from an accepted norm or standard, as of behavior.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to swerve; turn aside.

verb (used without object)

1. to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
2. to depart or swerve, as from a procedure, course of action, or acceptable norm.
3. to digress, as from a line of thought or reasoning.

Origin of deviates

1625-35; Late Latin dēviātus turned from the straight road, past participle of dēviāre. See deviant, -ate¹

Examples for deviates

These they fixed and consecrated in their temples; and no artist or musician is allowed to deviate from them.

He would not appear to deviate from this custom, but sat down to his books as usual.

Why have conservative jurists become so willing to deviate from an originalist viewpoint on the Second Amendment?

In proportion as we deviate from the strictly true, then, we sin.

There is another thing in which I have presumed to deviate from him and Spenser.

We might not be off the mark nine out of 10 times, but we deviate plenty.

Precisely: so that in order to obtain a knowledge of the one, we must deviate to the other.

I swear, though, that no living being will make me deviate from my line of conduct.

To deviate from that position, and thereby risk fouling the anchor.

This great principle she cannot deviate from, nor attempt to revoke.