diverge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈvɜːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /dɪˈvɜːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /dɪˈvɝd͡ʒ/
ipa: /daɪˈvɝd͡ʒ/
ipa: /dɑeˈvɜːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /daɪˈvøːd͡ʒ/
ipa: [dɑe̯ˈvøːd͡ʒ]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: diverges
form: diverging
form: diverged
form: diverged
Etymology: From Medieval Latin dīvergō (“bend away from, go in a different direction”), from Latin dī- + vergō (“bend”).
Senses: examples: text: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / […]
ref: 1916, Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (poem), in Mountain Interval
glosses: To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
raw_tags: of lines or paths
examples: text: Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.
text: The brooding, black-clad singer bridged a stark divide that emerged in the recording industry in the 1950s, as post-Elvis pop singers diverged into two camps and audiences aligned themselves with either the sideburned rebels of rock 'n' roll or the cowboy-hatted twangsters of country music.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 28:
text: “Earth Two,” a new series by writer James Robinson and artist Nicola Scott, reintroduces the concept by putting a new spin on the original versions of characters like the Green Lantern, the Flash and Superman that diverges notably from the past several decades of DC lore.
ref: 2012 June 1, Matthew Perpetua, “Original Green Lantern comes out as gay in DC Comics’ ‘Earth Two’”, in CNN:
qualifier: opinions; or anything else; opinions; or anything else
glosses: To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
raw_tags: of interests
examples: text: The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.
text: The last 61 miles of the journey, from Kongsberg to Oslo, are through much less mountainous country. The railway curves sharply away from the Lågan^([sic]), and descends steadily, and in places steeply, past the head of Lake Fiskerumvatn to Hokksund, where the connecting line to the Bergen-Oslo Railway at Hønefoss diverges.
ref: 1956 April, H. A. Vallance, “To Oslo via Stavanger”, in Railway Magazine, page 219:
text: Aedeagus in lateral view with preatrium well developed, almost as long as shaft, shaft slender, tubular, straight, diverging from line of preatrium about 30°, with membranous flanges on dorsal side variable in shape, dorsoatrium absent but with pair of ligaments connecting to anal tube laterally, in ventral view aedeagus shaft and preatrium nearly broadened at atrium, gonopore apical (Figs 4C, 4F–4I, 5A and 5G–5I ).
ref: 2015 October 1, “Clarification of the Identity of the Tea Green Leafhopper Based on Morphological Comparison between Chinese and Japanese Specimens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: North of Tain [...], the line reaches the southern shore of Dornoch Firth. Here, the railway and the A9 trunk road, which have hitherto run close together, diverge.
ref: 2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 49:
glosses: To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
raw_tags: of a line or path
examples: text: The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.
qualifier: opinion; or anything else; opinion; or anything else
glosses: To become different, to separate (from another line or path).
raw_tags: of an interest
examples: text: The sequence x#95;n#61;n² diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.
text: The sequence a#95;n#61;(-1)ⁿ diverges; it keeps oscillating between -1 and 1.
topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: series; or function; series; or function
glosses: Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
raw_tags: of a sequence
Derived terms: codiverge
divergement
divergence
divergent