# deviate
## English
### Pronunciation
#### Verb

* enPR: dē'vēāt
** (UK) IPA: /ˈdiː.vi.eɪt/
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** (US) IPA: /ˈdi.vi.eɪt/
** (General Australian) IPA: /ˈdiː.vi.æɪt/, [ˈdɪi.vi.æɪt]

#### Noun and Adjective

* enPR: dē'vēət
** (UK) IPA: /ˈdiː.vi.ət/
*** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** (US) IPA: /ˈdi.vi.ət/
** (General Australian) IPA: /ˈdiː.vi.ət/, [ˈdɪi.vi.ət]

### Etymology 1

From Late Latin dēviātus, perfect passive participle of dēviō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Compare French dévier.

#### Verb

deviate (third-person singular simple present deviates, present participle deviating, simple past and past participle deviated)
* (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
** 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no symptoms of approaching the suburbs of a large city.
** 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.
* (intransitive, figurative) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
    His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.
** 2021 February 9, “The double-edged sword of movie stardom remains the same as it ever was: when a persona is so fixed in the public mind, it's what people love you for, and it becomes difficult to deviate from.”, in BBC‎:
* (transitive) To cause to diverge.

##### Synonyms

* (change course): swerve, veer
* (stray): stray, wander

##### Derived terms

* deviative
* deviator
* deviatory
* nondeviating
* undeviating

##### Related terms

* deviant
* deviation

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From a substantivation of Late Latin dēviātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more.

#### Noun

deviate (plural deviates)
* (sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
    Synonyms: deviant, degenerate, pervert
** 1915, James Cornelius Wilson, A Handbook of medical diagnosis‎:[…] Walton has suggested that it is desirable "to name the phenomena signs of deviation, and call their possessors deviates or a deviate as the case may be […]
** 1959, Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back, Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing‎:Under these conditions the person who appears as a deviate is a deviate only because we have chosen, somewhat arbitrarily, to call him a member of the court […]
** 2001, Rupert Brown, Group Processes‎:[…] The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially […]
* (statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
** 1928, Karl J. Holzinger, Statistical Methods for Students in Education‎:It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130 […]
** 2001, Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical Biostatistics‎:This difference is called a deviate. When a deviate is divided by its SD a, it is called a relative deviate or a standard deviate.
** 2005, Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: An Introduction Using R‎:This is a deviate so the appropriate function is qt. We need to supply it with the probability (in this case p = 0.975) and the degrees of freedom...

##### Translations

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### Etymology 3

From Late Latin dēviātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.

#### Adjective

deviate
* (sociology) deviant
** 1987 February 1, Kim Westheimer, quoting John Gillespie, “Rawhide Boys”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 2:It's somewhat in vogue to give special attention and consideration to the alternative lifestyle, which five years ago we would have called the deviate lifestyle.

## Italian
### Verb

deviate
* second-person plural present present subjunctive/imperative of deviare

### Anagrams

* vediate, videate

## Latin
### Verb

dēviāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of dēviō