detour

See also: détour

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French détour, from détourner (“turn away”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.tʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈdiː.tɔː(ɹ)/

Noun

detour (plural detours)

1. A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     On the third day I made a detour westward to avoid the country of the Band-lu, as I did not care to be detained by a meeting with To-jo.

2. (programming) The diversion of the flow of execution for debugging or similar purposes.

See also

• bypass
• roundabout

Translations

diversion or deviation

• Bulgarian: отклонение (bg) n (otklonenie), заобикаляне (bg) n (zaobikaljane), обиколка (bg) f (obikolka)
• Catalan: marrada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 彎路 (yue),弯路 (yue) (waan¹ lou⁶), (figuratively)

  Hakka: 彎路 (hak), 弯路 (hak) (vân-lu)

  Mandarin: 繞行 (zh), 绕行 (zh) (ràoxíng), 彎路 (zh),弯路 (zh) (wānlù)

• Czech: zajížďka f
• Danish: omvej c
• Dutch: omleiding (nl) f, omweg (nl) m
• Finnish: kiertotie
• French: détour (fr) m, déviation (fr) f
• German: Umleitung (de) f (diversion), Umweg (de) m (deviation)
• Greek: παράκαμψη (el) f (parákampsi)
• Hebrew: מעקף‎ m (ma'akaf)
• Hungarian: kerülőút (hu), elkerülő út (hu), kerülő (hu)

• Irish: malairt slí f, athbhealach m, cúrsa timpill m, cor bealaigh m, seachród m
• Italian: deviazione (it) f
• Japanese: 迂回路 (うかいろ, ukairo)
• Latin: dēvortia n pl
• Maori: autaki, ara autaki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: omkjøring m or f

• Persian: بیراهه‎ (fa) (birâhe), مسیر انحرافی‎ (masir-e enherâfi)
• Polish: objazd (pl) m, nadłożenie drogi n
• Portuguese: desvio (pt) m, distracção (pt)
• Russian: объе́зд (ru) m (obʺjézd), (on foot) обхо́д (ru) m (obxód), око́льный путь m (okólʹnyj putʹ), крю́к (ru) m (krjúk)
• Spanish: desvío (es) m
• Swedish: omväg (sv) c

Verb

detour (third-person singular simple present detours, present participle detouring, simple past and past participle detoured)

1. (intransitive) To make a detour.
2. (transitive) To direct or send on a detour.

Translations

intransitive: to make a detour

• Bulgarian: заобикалям (bg) (zaobikaljam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繞道 (zh), 绕道 (zh) (ràodào)

• Dutch: omlopen (nl), omrijden (nl) etc.
• Finnish: mennä kiertotietä, tulla kiertotietä, käyttää kiertotietä
• French: détourner (fr)

• German: einen Umweg machen (de)
• Hungarian: kerülőt tesz
• Japanese: 迂回する (ja) (うかいする, ukai suru)
• Portuguese: desviar (pt)
• Russian: объезжа́ть (ru) impf (obʺjezžátʹ), объе́хать (ru) pf (obʺjéxatʹ)

transitive: to direct or send on a detour

• Bulgarian: карам да заобиколи (karam da zaobikoli)
• Dutch: omleiden (nl)
• Finnish: ohjata kiertotietä
• German: umleiten (de)

• Hungarian: elterel (hu), kerülőútra terel
• Japanese: 迂回させる (ja) (うかいさせる, ukai saseru)
• Portuguese: desviar (pt)
• Spanish: desviar (es)

Anagrams

• Drouet, douter, redout, routed, toured

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Middle English

Noun

detour

1. Alternative form of dettour