Crossword clues for diverge
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diverge \Di*verge"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Diverged; p. pr. & vb. n. Diverging.] [L. di- = dis- + vergere to bend, incline. See Verge.]
To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.
To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive literally of lines or paths English) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions. 2 (context intransitive figuratively of interests, opinions, or anything else English) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions. 3 (context intransitive literally of a line or path English) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path). 4 (context intransitive figuratively of an interest, opinion, or anything else English) To become different, to separate (from another line or path). 5 (context intransitive mathematics of a sequence, series, or function English) Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
WordNet
v. move or draw apart; "The two paths diverge here" [ant: converge]
have no limits as a mathematical series [ant: converge, converge]
extend in a different direction; "The lines start to diverge here"; "Their interests diverged" [ant: converge]
be at variance with; be out of line with [syn: deviate, vary, depart] [ant: conform]
Usage examples of "diverge".
Separated bands of cousins went their diverging genetic ways, adapting to new challenges, discovering diverse techniques for living.
The flower under observation at first diverged a little from its upright position, so as to occupy the open space caused by the removal of the adjoining flowers.
The main current now runs straight, the anabranch diverges and then rejoins.
The churchyard at Ashford, and the stone cross, from whence diverged the several roads to London, Canterbury, and Ashford, situated midway between the two latter places, served, so tradition avouched, as nocturnal theatres for the unhallowed deeds of the Wulfrics, who thither prowled by moonlight, it was said, to batten on the freshly-buried dead, or drain the blood of any living wight who might be rash enough to venture among those solitary spots.
The exception is when the forks run parallel after bifurcating and then diverge.
After riding twelve miles I got bread and milk for myself and a feed for Birdie at a large house where there were eight boarders, each one looking nearer the grave than the other, and on remounting was directed to leave the main road and diverge through Monument Park, a ride of twelve miles among fantastic rocks, but I lost my way, and came to an end of all tracks in a wild canyon.
Now and then my touch would reveal a doorless intersecting passage, and I several times encountered junctions with two, three, and four diverging avenues.
Something short of the summit of the Saint Gothard pass, the great road of the Furca diverges to the right, passes the Rhone Glacier, enters the Rhone Valley, and conducts you to Brieg and the foot of the Simplon.
Godspeed, as Gwalchmai grew huger in size and their paths of lif e diverged?
Here their stories diverged: Bowlby claimed she wanted things to go no further but Muscadine got on top of her and entered her by force.
Yet the beliefs of the populace, the insights of the rhapsodists, and the theories of the metaphysicians have so far diverged that few of them can so much as comprehend what the others say, and someone who knew nothing of any of their ideas might well believe there was no connection at all between them.
He diverged far enough from the human somatotype to be considered a joker.
When I am close enough to the singularity, my subj time will diverge to infinity.
In the new paving of the crown of the causey, some years before, the rise in the middle had been levelled to an equality with the side loans, and in disposing of the lamp-posts, it was thought advantageous to place them halfway from the houses and the syvers, between the loans and the crown of the causey, which had the effect at night, of making the people who were wont, in their travels and visitations, to keep the middle of the street, to diverge into the space and path between the lamp-posts and the houses.
The whole party escorted us to where the tracks diverge and the Wangaroo Creek runs into the Ubi, at this point deepening into a pool, surrounded by ferns and arums and overshadowed by ti-trees.