Related Words:
- detour
collapse - a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)
- travel via a detour related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- ambages,
- back door,
- back road,
- back stairs,
- back street,
- back way,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bias,
- branch off,
- branching off,
- by-lane,
- bypass,
- bypath,
- byroad,
- bystreet,
- byway,
- change the bearing,
- circuit,
- circuitousness,
- circumbendibus,
- circumnavigate,
- circumvent,
- corner,
- crook,
- curve,
- declination,
- depart from,
- departure,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviate,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- digress,
- digression,
- discursion,
- divagate,
- divagation,
- divaricate,
- divarication,
- diverge,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- divert,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- errantry,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- go around,
- go round about,
- hairpin,
- heel,
- indirection,
- make a detour,
- obliquity,
- pererration,
- rambling,
- roundabout,
- roundabout way,
- runaround,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- side door,
- side road,
- side street,
- skew,
- slant,
- straying,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- trend,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn away from,
- turning,
- twist,
- variation,
- vary,
- veer,
- wandering,
- warp,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- prefer
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- like better; value more highly; "Some people prefer camping to staying in hotels"; "We prefer sleeping outside"
- promote over another; "he favors his second daughter"
- give preference to one creditor over another related words >
- advance,
- aggrandize,
- aim at,
- approve,
- be desirous of,
- be disposed to,
- be partial to,
- bring before,
- bring forward,
- bring up,
- broach,
- choose,
- choose rather,
- commend to attention,
- cull,
- desiderate,
- desire,
- discriminate,
- elect,
- elevate,
- embrace,
- ennoble,
- enter,
- espouse,
- esteem,
- exalt,
- extend,
- fancy,
- favor,
- feel about it,
- file,
- graduate,
- have a bias,
- have designs on,
- have preference,
- have rather,
- hold forth,
- hold out,
- honor before,
- incline toward,
- introduce,
- kick upstairs,
- knight,
- launch,
- lay before,
- lean toward,
- lean towards,
- like,
- like better,
- lodge,
- look at it,
- love,
- lust,
- lust after,
- make a motion,
- mark,
- moot,
- move,
- offer,
- offer a resolution,
- open up,
- opt for,
- pass,
- pick,
- play favorites,
- please,
- pose,
- postulate,
- prefer to,
- present,
- proffer,
- promote,
- propose,
- proposition,
- propound,
- put,
- put forth,
- put forward,
- put it to,
- put up,
- raise,
- rather,
- recommend,
- see fit,
- select,
- set before,
- set forth,
- show preference,
- single out,
- start,
- submit,
- suggest,
- take,
- take to,
- tend toward,
- tender,
- think best,
- think fit,
- think proper,
- treat unequally,
- up,
- upgrade,
- view,
- want,
- wish,
- wish to goodness,
- wish very much,
- would fain do
- deflect
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- turn aside and away from an initial or intended course
- turn from a straight course , fixed direction, or line of interest related words >
- angle,
- angle off,
- anticipate,
- arch,
- avert,
- bar,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bend back,
- bias,
- blunt,
- bow,
- change,
- chill,
- cool,
- crook,
- curl,
- curve,
- damp,
- dampen,
- debar,
- decurve,
- deter,
- deviate,
- diffract,
- diffuse,
- disaffect,
- discourage,
- dishearten,
- disincline,
- disinterest,
- disperse,
- distort,
- distract,
- divagate,
- diverge,
- divert,
- dogleg,
- dome,
- embow,
- estop,
- exclude,
- fend,
- fend off,
- flex,
- forbid,
- foreclose,
- forestall,
- hairpin,
- help,
- hold off,
- hook,
- hump,
- hunch,
- incurvate,
- incurve,
- indispose,
- inflect,
- keep from,
- keep off,
- loop,
- oblique,
- obviate,
- parry,
- pivot,
- preclude,
- prevent,
- prohibit,
- pull,
- put off,
- quench,
- recurve,
- reflect,
- reflex,
- refract,
- repel,
- retroflex,
- round,
- rule out,
- sag,
- save,
- scatter,
- sheer,
- shy,
- sidetrack,
- skew,
- slue,
- stave off,
- swag,
- sway,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- switch,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn away,
- turn from,
- turn off,
- twist,
- vault,
- veer,
- volte-face,
- ward off,
- warp,
- wean from,
- wheel,
- whip,
- whirl,
- wind,
- zigzag
- oblique
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- any grammatical case other than the nominative
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base" related words >
- O-shaped,
- across,
- ambagious,
- angle,
- angle off,
- angling,
- askew,
- aslant,
- athwart,
- atilt,
- awry,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- banked,
- banking,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bias,
- cambered,
- canted,
- canting,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- clandestine,
- collateral,
- crook,
- crooked,
- cross,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- deflect,
- deflectional,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- devious,
- diagonal,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- divagate,
- divagational,
- diverge,
- divergent,
- diverging,
- evasive,
- excursive,
- false,
- furtive,
- helical,
- implied,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- indirect,
- leaning,
- left-handed,
- meandering,
- oblique angle,
- oblique figure,
- oblique line,
- offhand,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- overthwart,
- periphrastic,
- pitched,
- pitching,
- rhomboid,
- rotary,
- round,
- roundabout,
- scratch comma,
- separatrix,
- sheer,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- skew,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slash,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- slue,
- sly,
- solidus,
- spiral,
- surreptitious,
- sway,
- swerve,
- thwart,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- traverse,
- turn,
- twist,
- underhanded,
- veer,
- virgule
- digression
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- wandering from the main path of a journey
- a message that departs from the main subject related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- ambages,
- apostrophe,
- aside,
- bend,
- bias,
- branching off,
- bypass,
- bypath,
- byway,
- circling,
- circuit,
- circuition,
- circuitousness,
- circuitry,
- circularity,
- circulation,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumambulation,
- circumbendibus,
- circumflexion,
- circumlocution,
- circummigration,
- circumnavigation,
- corner,
- crook,
- crosswiseness,
- curve,
- declination,
- deflection,
- deflexure,
- departure,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviating,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- diagonality,
- digressing,
- discursion,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- episode,
- errantry,
- excurse,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- gyre,
- gyring,
- hairpin,
- incident,
- indirection,
- indirectness,
- meandering,
- nonconformity,
- obiter dictum,
- obliqueness,
- obliquity,
- orbit,
- orbiting,
- parenthesis,
- pererration,
- rambling,
- roundabout,
- roundabout way,
- roundaboutness,
- rounding,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- side path,
- side road,
- sidetrack,
- skew,
- skewness,
- slant,
- spiral,
- spiraling,
- squint,
- straying,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- transverseness,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- vagary,
- variation,
- veer,
- wandering,
- warp,
- wheeling,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- Wanderjahr,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- afoot and lighthearted,
- bend,
- bias,
- bigheartedness,
- bigness,
- branching off,
- bumming,
- chivalrousness,
- chivalry,
- circuitousness,
- corner,
- crook,
- curve,
- declination,
- departure,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- digression,
- discursion,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- diversion,
- dogleg,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- elevation,
- exaltation,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- flitting,
- gadding,
- generosity,
- generousness,
- great heart,
- greatheartedness,
- greatness,
- greatness of heart,
- hairpin,
- heroism,
- high-mindedness,
- hoboism,
- idealism,
- indirection,
- itineracy,
- itinerancy,
- knight-errantry,
- knightliness,
- largeheartedness,
- liberality,
- liberalness,
- loftiness,
- magnanimity,
- magnanimousness,
- nobility,
- noble-mindedness,
- nobleness,
- nomadism,
- obliquity,
- openhandedness,
- peregrination,
- pererration,
- princeliness,
- ramble,
- rambling,
- roam,
- roaming,
- rove,
- roving,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- skew,
- slant,
- straying,
- sublimity,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- traipsing,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- vagabondage,
- vagabondia,
- vagabondism,
- vagrancy,
- variation,
- veer,
- wandering,
- wanderlust,
- warp,
- wayfaring,
- yaw,
- zigzag
- thwart
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- a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" related words >
- across,
- across the grain,
- annul,
- athwart,
- athwartships,
- baffle,
- balk,
- beat,
- bench,
- bendwise,
- bias,
- biased,
- biaswise,
- bilk,
- blast,
- block,
- brace,
- brave,
- bring to nothing,
- buffer,
- cancel,
- cancel out,
- cast down,
- catercorner,
- catercornered,
- challenge,
- check,
- checkmate,
- circumvent,
- come to nothing,
- confound,
- confront,
- contrariwise,
- contravene,
- contrawise,
- counter,
- counteract,
- counterbalance,
- countermand,
- counterwork,
- crisscross,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crossing,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- curb,
- dash,
- defeat,
- defeat expectation,
- defy,
- destroy,
- diagonal,
- disappoint,
- discomfit,
- disconcert,
- discountenance,
- dish,
- disillusion,
- disrupt,
- dissatisfy,
- elude,
- flummox,
- foil,
- foul up,
- frustrate,
- gum up,
- hinder,
- impede,
- invalidate,
- kittycorner,
- knock the chocks,
- let down,
- negate,
- negativate,
- negative,
- neutralize,
- nonplus,
- nullify,
- oblique,
- obliquely,
- obstruct,
- offset,
- oppose,
- overthwart,
- perplex,
- queer,
- restrain,
- ruin,
- sabotage,
- scotch,
- short-circuit,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- slant,
- spike,
- spoil,
- stonewall,
- stop,
- stultify,
- stump,
- style,
- stymie,
- tantalize,
- tease,
- thwartly,
- thwartways,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- transversely,
- traverse,
- undo,
- upset,
- vitiate,
- void
- predilection
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- a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation" related words >
- a thing for,
- affinity,
- animus,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- bag,
- bent,
- bias,
- cast,
- character,
- chosen kind,
- conatus,
- conduciveness,
- constitution,
- cup of tea,
- delight,
- diathesis,
- disposition,
- druthers,
- eagerness,
- eccentricity,
- fancy,
- fascination,
- favor,
- favoritism,
- feeling for,
- forejudgment,
- grain,
- idiosyncrasy,
- inclination,
- inclining,
- individualism,
- jaundice,
- jaundiced eye,
- kidney,
- leaning,
- liability,
- liking,
- make,
- makeup,
- mental set,
- mettle,
- mind,
- mind-set,
- mold,
- mutual affinity,
- mutual attraction,
- nature,
- one-sidedness,
- parti pris,
- partialism,
- partiality,
- particular choice,
- partisanship,
- penchant,
- personal choice,
- preapprehension,
- preconception,
- preconclusion,
- preconsideration,
- predecision,
- predetermination,
- predisposition,
- preference,
- prejudgment,
- prejudication,
- prejudice,
- premature judgment,
- prenotion,
- prepossession,
- presumption,
- presupposal,
- presupposition,
- presurmise,
- probability,
- proclivity,
- proneness,
- propensity,
- readiness,
- sensitivity to,
- set,
- slant,
- soft spot,
- stamp,
- strain,
- streak,
- stripe,
- style,
- susceptibility,
- sympathy,
- taste,
- temper,
- temperament,
- tendency,
- thing,
- tropism,
- turn,
- turn of mind,
- twist,
- type,
- undetachment,
- undispassionateness,
- warp,
- weakness,
- willingness
- patronage
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- (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support
- support by being a patron of related words >
- abetment,
- administration,
- advocacy,
- advocating,
- advocation,
- aegis,
- aid,
- auspices,
- backing,
- benefaction,
- bias,
- boosting,
- business,
- care,
- carriage trade,
- certificate of character,
- championship,
- character,
- character reference,
- charge,
- charity,
- clientage,
- clientele,
- condescension,
- contempt,
- contumely,
- countenance,
- credential,
- cure,
- custodianship,
- custody,
- custom,
- deigning,
- disdain,
- encouragement,
- favor,
- favoritism,
- favors of office,
- financing,
- fosterage,
- good name,
- goodwill,
- governance,
- government,
- guardianship,
- guidance,
- hands,
- help,
- humiliation,
- interest,
- jurisdiction,
- keeping,
- letter of introduction,
- management,
- market,
- melon,
- ministry,
- nepotism,
- oversight,
- partiality,
- pastorage,
- pastorate,
- pastorship,
- patronizing,
- plum,
- political patronage,
- pork,
- pork barrel,
- pork-barreling,
- preference,
- promotion,
- protection,
- protectorship,
- public,
- purchasing public,
- recommend,
- recommendation,
- reference,
- repute,
- rural market,
- safe hands,
- scorn,
- seconding,
- spoils system,
- sponsorship,
- stewardship,
- stooping,
- subsidy,
- suburban market,
- superiority,
- support,
- sympathy,
- testimonial,
- trade,
- trading,
- traffic,
- tutelage,
- voucher,
- ward,
- wardenship,
- wardship,
- watch and ward,
- wing,
- youth market
- divert
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- send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one
- withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions related words >
- absorb,
- abstract,
- abuse,
- alter,
- amuse,
- avert,
- befoul,
- beguile,
- bend,
- bias,
- blunt,
- call away,
- change,
- change course,
- chill,
- convert,
- convulse,
- cool,
- crook,
- curve,
- damp,
- dampen,
- debase,
- defalcate,
- defile,
- deflect,
- delight,
- depart,
- desecrate,
- detach,
- deter,
- detract,
- detract attention,
- deviate,
- diffract,
- diffuse,
- disaffect,
- discourage,
- disengage,
- disincline,
- disinterest,
- disperse,
- distort,
- distract,
- diverge,
- divert the mind,
- dogleg,
- embezzle,
- engage,
- enliven,
- entertain,
- exhilarate,
- foul,
- fracture one,
- gladden,
- hairpin,
- indispose,
- interest,
- kill,
- knock dead,
- loosen up,
- maladminister,
- misapply,
- misappropriate,
- misemploy,
- mishandle,
- mismanage,
- misuse,
- modify,
- occupy,
- peculate,
- pervert,
- pilfer,
- pivot,
- please,
- pollute,
- profane,
- prostitute,
- pull,
- put off,
- quench,
- raise a laugh,
- raise a smile,
- recreate,
- redirect,
- refract,
- refresh,
- regale,
- relax,
- repel,
- scatter,
- sheer,
- shift,
- sidetrack,
- skew,
- slay,
- solace,
- swerve,
- switch,
- tickle,
- titillate,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn away,
- turn from,
- turn off,
- twist,
- veer,
- violate,
- volte-face,
- warp,
- wean from,
- wheel,
- whip,
- whirl,
- wow,
- zigzag
- bevel
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- a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size
- two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
- cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel; "bevel the surface" related words >
- ascender,
- astrolabe,
- azimuth circle,
- azimuth compass,
- back,
- bank,
- bastard type,
- beard,
- belly,
- bevel protractor,
- bevel square,
- beveled,
- bezel,
- bias,
- biased,
- black letter,
- body,
- cap,
- capital,
- case,
- chute,
- clinometer,
- counter,
- descender,
- easy slope,
- em,
- en,
- face,
- fat-faced type,
- feet,
- fleam,
- font,
- gentle slope,
- glacis,
- goniometer,
- grade,
- gradient,
- graphometer,
- groove,
- hanging gardens,
- helicline,
- hillside,
- inclination,
- incline,
- inclined plane,
- italic,
- launching ramp,
- letter,
- ligature,
- logotype,
- lower case,
- majuscule,
- minuscule,
- nick,
- pantometer,
- pi,
- pica,
- pitch,
- point,
- print,
- protractor,
- quadrant,
- radiogoniometer,
- ramp,
- roman,
- sans serif,
- scarp,
- script,
- sextant,
- shank,
- shelving beach,
- shoulder,
- side,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slope,
- small cap,
- small capital,
- stamp,
- steep slope,
- stem,
- stiff climb,
- talus,
- theodolite,
- transit,
- transit circle,
- transit instrument,
- transit theodolite,
- type,
- type body,
- type class,
- type lice,
- typecase,
- typeface,
- typefounders,
- typefoundry,
- upper case
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