detour
See also: détour
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French détour, from détourner (“turn away”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈdiː.tʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈdiː.tɔː(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdi.toɹ/
Noun edit
detour (plural detours)
- A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IX, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
- 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.
- 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 29:50 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?[1], archived from the original on 3 November 2022:
- Of course the Johnston swings around to engage the entire flotilla, and, despite taking several more hits, Johnston successfully forces away the first two ships, which leads to the entire squadron taking a detour to avoid the single pugnacious ship.
- (programming) The diversion of the flow of execution for debugging or similar purposes.
Translations edit
diversion or deviation
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Verb edit
detour (third-person singular simple present detours, present participle detouring, simple past and past participle detoured)
- (intransitive) To make a detour.
- 1988 April 9, Elizabeth Pincus, “Freedom Ride Supports Southern Les/Gay Visibility”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
- Petrelis detoured away from southern activities to visit Chicago and help draw attention to lesbian, gay and AIDS issues during the Illinois primary March 16.
- (transitive) To direct or send on a detour.
Translations edit
intransitive: to make a detour
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transitive: to direct or send on a detour
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Middle English edit
Noun edit
detour
- Alternative form of dettour