swerve

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. (archaic) To stray; to wander; to rove.
2. To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
3. To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
4. To bend; to incline; to give way.
5. To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
6. To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
7. Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
8. To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
9. (slang, transitive) To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.
2. (countable, uncountable) A deviation from duty or custom.
3. (countable, uncountable) Synonym of drift (“sideways movement imparted by spin bowler”).

Concepts

virer

🐻

faire un écart

écart

écarter

élan

faire une embardée

tourner

embardée

se déformer

se dérober

se tordre

déportement

déporter

esquiver d’un appui

déviation

Synonymes

veer

deviate

turn

deflect

slide

sheer

digress

be slippery

yaw

diverge

slip

turn away

depart

aberrate

fire

🔥

veering

sway

shunt

divert

cut

wheel

🛞

endorse

trend

swerving

stray

swing

bend

slew

slue

curve

transfer

head

go wrong

detour

go out

convert

fall off

fall away

deflexion

eschew

error

deflection

blench

backtrack

shift

shake

🫨

send out

sidetrack

slant

drift

Traductions

deviare

sapmak

girar

wenden

desviación

inhiraf

deviazione

zwenking

endosseren

gireren

endossar

transferir

ausweichen

girar

schleudern

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/swɜːv/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: swerven

Hérité de ancien anglais: sweorfan

Appartenant à frison occidental: swerve

Appartenant à néerlandais: zwerven

Appartenant à bas-allemand: swarven

In summary

From Middle English swerven, swarven, from Old English sweorfan (“to file; rub; polish; scour; turn aside”), from Proto-Germanic *swerbaną (“to rub off; wipe; mop”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerbʰ- (“to turn; wipe; sweep”). Cognate with West Frisian swerve (“to wander; roam; swerve”), Dutch zwerven (“to wander; stray; roam”), Low German swarven (“to swerve; wander; riot”), Swedish dialectal svärva (“to wipe”), Icelandic sverfa (“to file”).