detour
See also: détour
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French détour, from détourner (“turn away”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
detour (plural detours)
- 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.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX
- (programming) The diversion of the flow of execution for debugging or similar purposes.
See alsoEdit
TranslationsEdit
diversion or deviation
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VerbEdit
detour (third-person singular simple present detours, present participle detouring, simple past and past participle detoured)
- (intransitive) To make a detour.
- (transitive) To direct or send on a detour.
TranslationsEdit
intransitive: to make a detour
transitive: to direct or send on a detour
AnagramsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
detour
- Alternative form of dettour