DIVERT
\da͡ɪvˈɜːt], \daɪvˈɜːt], \d_aɪ_v_ˈɜː_t]\
Definitions of DIVERT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
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occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; "The play amused the ladies"
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turn aside; turn away from
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send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one
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withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions
By Princeton University
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occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; "The play amused the ladies"
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turn aside; turn away from
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send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one
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withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course.
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To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor.
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To turn aside; to digress.
By Oddity Software
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To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course.
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To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor.
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To turn aside; to digress.
By Noah Webster.
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To turn aside from any direction or course; draw away from: entertain: amuse; as, to divert the mind of a crying child by a story.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To turn aside: to change the direction of: to turn the mind from business or study: to amuse.
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DIVERTING.
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DIVERTINGLY.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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di-v[.e]rt', v.t. to turn aside: to change the direction of: to turn the mind from business or study: to amuse.--n. DIVERT'IMENTO (obs.), diversion: (mus.) a ballet-interlude.--adj. DIVERT'ING.--adv. DIVERT'INGLY.--n. DIVERT'ISEMENT, diversion: a short ballet between the acts of a play.--adj. DIVERT'IVE, tending to divert. [Fr.,--L. divert[)e]re, diversum--dis, aside, vert[)e]re, to turn.]
By Thomas Davidson
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Turn a side, deflect, (stream &c., from, to, or abs.); turn elsewhere, get rid of, ward off; draw off attention of (from one thing to another), distract; entertain, amuse, whence diverting a., divertingly adv. [old French]
By Sir Augustus Henry
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