detour as a noun: - 1
as a verb: - 1
detour
noun
1 detour
A roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked).
synonym: roundabout way.
Roget 629:
circuit,
roundabout way,
digression,
detour,
circumbendibus,
ambages†,
loop;
winding
etc.
(circuition)
311†;
zigzag
etc.
(deviation)
279.
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Roget 279:
deviation;
swerving
etc.
v.;
obliquation†,
warp,
refraction;
flection†,
flexion;
sweep;
deflection,
deflexure†;
declination.
diversion,
digression,
depart from,
aberration;
divergence
etc.
291;
zigzag;
detour
etc.
(circuit)
629;
divagation.
[Desultory motion]
wandering
etc.
v.;
vagrancy,
evagation†;
bypaths and crooked ways;
byroad.
[Motion sideways, oblique motion]
sidling
etc.
v.;
knight's move at chess.
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Roget 245:
curvature,
curvity†,
curvation†;
incurvature†,
incurvity†;
incurvation†;
bend;
flexure,
flexion,
flection†;
conflexure†;
crook,
hook,
bought,
bending;
deflection,
deflexion†;
inflection,
inflexion†;
concameration†;
arcuation†,
devexity†,
turn,
deviation,
detour,
sweep;
curl,
curling;
bough;
recurvity†,
recurvation†;
sinuosity
etc.
248.
kink.
carve,
arc,
arch,
arcade,
vault,
bow,
crescent,
half-moon,
lunule†,
horseshoe,
loop,
crane neck;
parabola,
hyperbola;
helix,
spiral;
catenary†,
festoon;
conchoid†,
cardioid;
caustic;
tracery;
arched ceiling,
arched roof;
bay window,
bow window.
sine curve;
spline,
spline curve,
spline function;
obliquity
etc.
217.
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Dutch: omleiding
Polish: objazdówka, objazd
verb
1 detour
Travel via a detour.
Dutch: omleiden, omrijden
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