swerve

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To stray; to wander; to rove.

   “A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.”

2. fiil To go out of a straight line; to deflect.

   “with the slipping of the pommel , the point swerved”

3. fiil 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.

   “I swerve not from thy commandments.”

4. fiil To bend; to incline; to give way.

   “The battle swerved.”

5. fiil To climb or move upward by winding or turning.

   “The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved.”

6. fiil To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
7. fiil Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line

   “Snodgrass also saw a free-kick swerve just wide before Arsenal, with Walcott and Fabregas by now off the bench, turned their vastly superior possession into chances in the closing moments”

8. fiil To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.

   “The French invaders, like an infuriated animal that has in its onslaught received a mortal wound, felt that they were perishing, but could not stop, any more than the Russian army, weaker by one half, could help swerving.”

9. fiil To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.

   “If I see that type o' muthafucka in the club I just swerve him.”

10. isim A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.

    “The distinction between using a skill subconsciously and employing it in the full knowledge of what was happening made a dramatic difference. I could execute a swerve to avoid an obstacle in a fraction of the time it previously took.”

11. isim A deviation from duty or custom.

    “[…] indubitable evidence of a swerve from the principle of the work.”

12. isim Synonym of drift (“sideways movement imparted by spin bowler”).