swerve

angla

Alternativaj skribmanieroj

• swarve

Deveno

From Inguŝa, vira, from Inguŝa, from Inguŝa, from Inguŝa. Cognate with West Frisian vira, Dutch vira, Low German vira, Swedish dialectal vira, Icelandic vira.

Elparolo

• IFA: brita  swɜː(ɹ)v 

• Sono :

  (

  lingvo -en-, dialekto -US-

  )

  (dosiero)

• Rimoj:

Verbo

swerve (3a persono ununombro simpla as-tempo swerves, as-tempa participo swerveing, simpla as-tempo kaj pasinta participo swerveed)

Signifoj

[1] ĝiri; ĝirado; flankeniri; flankeniro

1. luksemburga To stray; to wander; to rove.
   • Sir Philip Sidney

     A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.

2. To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
   • Sir Philip Sidney

     The point [of the sword] swerved.

3. 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

     I swerve not from thy commandments.

   • Clarendon

     They swerve from the strict letter of the law.

   • Atterbury

     many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion

4. To bend; to incline.
   • Milton

     The battle swerved.

5. To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
   • Dryden

     The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved.

6. To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
7. of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
   • Ŝablono:quote-meta

Parencaĵoj

• swarf

Tradukoj

 to stray  

Polish: błądzić → pl impf Russian: блужда́ть → ru impf

 to go out of a straight line  

Maori: tataha → mi, perori → mi Polish: zbaczać → pl impf, zboczyć → pl pf

Russian: отклоня́ться → ru impf, отклони́ться → ru pf, свора́чивать → ru impf, сверну́ть → ru pf, повора́чивать → ru impf, поверну́ть → ru pf

 to wander from a line, rule or duty  

Dutch: zwerven → nl

Maori: kotiti → mi Russian: отходи́ть → ru impf (от правил), преступа́ть → ru impf (закон)

 to bend  

Russian: сгиба́ться → ru impf, согну́ться → ru pf

 to turn aside or deviate to avoid impact  

Maori: tataha → mi Russian: уклоня́ться → ru impf, уклони́ться → ru pf

Swedish: väja → sv

 Substantivo

Angla substantivo English noun
Singularo	Pluralo
swerve	swerves

1. A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.
   • 1990, American Motorcyclist (volume 44, number 7, page 11)

     The distinction between using a skill subconsciously and employing it in the full knowledge of what was happening made a dramatic difference. I could execute a swerve to avoid an obstacle in a fraction of the time it previously took.

Derived terms

• body swerve