detour

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If you set up checkpoints to verify that the device is installed and functioning he'll detour around them, over rural highways.

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Quick take

A diversion or deviation from one's original route.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

A diversion or deviation from one's original route.

verb

(intransitive) To make a detour.

verb

(transitive) To direct or send on a detour.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for detour.

noun

A diversion or deviation from one's original route.

verb

(intransitive) To make a detour.

verb

(transitive) To direct or send on a detour.

noun

An temporary alternative route available to motorists away from the usual route due to a closure for repairs, dealing with an accident, or some event rendering the usual route unusable.

Example sentences

If you set up checkpoints to verify that the device is installed and functioning he'll detour around them, over rural highways.

Their one western-friendly leader was just a minor short-lived detour in their very long history of authoritarianism.

Trip route should have been from Oxycontin addiction to treatment, not with a detour into illegally obtained needle drugs.

When you are going to learn one thing, you don't make a detour learning another thing for a few months.

A possibly irrelevant nostalgic detour, but I'm reminded of a thought experiment I contributed to once [1]..

But if I run Coq on the client anyway, why would I take a gratuitous detour through the browser?

But the Romantic theory of poetry is twaddle, and it does represent a detour that has taken almost 200 years to recover from.

I made a special detour to ride one of these in Kobenhavn in the Axelborg building.

P=NKG-SFO As you can see, flying via Hawaii is quite a detour.

Frankly Pulseaudio is a massive detour when it comes to Linux audio.

I worked on scala for quite a while, and took a detour to write Java.

Some of these routes will probably never be viable on their own, but the segments of track might be needed some day as a detour.

Quote examples

By asking one yes–no question, can you determine the road to Freedom?" Here's a "solution" in the style of the author: "There is no solution, because the road to 'Freedom' is under construction, and the detour leads through 'Death.' Hahaha!