Crossword clues for swerve
swerve
- Wife involved with minister to avoid
- Abrupt change of course
- Suddenly turn to render assistance, grabbing wife
- Sudden deviation from straight course
- Abruptly go off course
- Change course suddenly
- Change direction abruptly
- One way to avoid an accident
- Do some weaving
- Avoid an accident
- Avoid a pothole, say
- What Jesus will probably do if you let him take the wheel
- Weave on the road
- Try to avoid a collision, in a way
- Try to avoid a collision
- One way to avoid a crash
- Avoid while driving
- Avoid a collision, in a way
- Turn abruptly
- Try not to have an accident, say
- Turn suddenly
- Deviate
- Try to avoid hitting
- Veer sharply
- Avoid a pothole, maybe
- Try to avoid an accident, maybe
- Veer suddenly
- Take a sudden turn
- The act of turning aside suddenly
- An erratic deflection from an intended course
- Turn aside abruptly
- Turn sharply and suddenly
- Sudden turn
- Move to avoid wife during ball at court
- Move to avoid waltz’s beginning during ball at court
- Change of direction in Society - we have to adopt rule
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swerve \Swerve\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swerved; p. pr. & vb. n. Swerving.] [OE. swerven, AS. sweorfan to wipe off, to file, to polish; akin to OFries. swerva to creep, D. zwerven to swerve, to rope, OS. swerban to wipe off, MHG. swerben to be whirled, OHG. swerban to wipe off, Icel. sverfa to file, Goth. swa['i]rban (in comp.) to wipe, and perhaps to E. swarm. Cf. Swarm.]
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To stray; to wander; to rope. [Obs.]
A maid thitherward did run, To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.
--Sir P. Sidney. To go out of a straight line; to deflect. ``The point [of the sword] swerved.''
--Sir P. Sidney.-
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.
--Bk. of Com. Prayer.They swerve from the strict letter of the law.
--Clarendon.Many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy religion.
--Atterbury. To bend; to incline. ``The battle swerved.''
--Milton.-
To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
The tree was high; Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved.
--Dryden.
Swerve \Swerve\, v. t.
To turn aside.
--Gauden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "to depart, go make off; turn away or aside;" c.1300, "to turn aside, deviate from a straight course;" in form from Old English sweorfan "to rub, scour, file away, grind away," but sense development is difficult to trace. The Old English word is from Proto-Germanic *swerb- (cf Old Norse sverfa "to scour, file," Old Saxon swebran "to wipe off"), from PIE root *swerbh- "to turn; wipe off." Cognate words in other Germanic languages (cognates: Old Frisian swerva "to creep," Middle Dutch swerven "to rove, roam, stray") suggests the sense of "go off, turn aside" might have existed in Old English, though unrecorded. Related: Swerved; swerving.
1741, from swerve (v.).
Wiktionary
vb. 1 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. 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
WordNet
Wikipedia
Swerve is the name given to several fictional characters in the Transformers universes. Swerve is always depicted as an Autobot land vehicle with red color. Up until 2008, there has never been a Transformer named Swerve with his own original mold - he has only been a repaint or remold from someone else but the running theme of him being red in color continues. The only original Transformer figure given the name Swerve was a Chevrolet Aveo given away as a promotional item for General Motors.
Swerve may refer to:
- Turning an automobile sharply to avoid a road hazard
- Clinamen, a concept in early atomic theory
- The curved flight of a spinning object due to the Magnus effect
Swerve is a 2011 Australian thriller film written and directed by Craig Lahiff. It stars Emma Booth, Jason Clarke, and David Lyons. Lyons plays an honest man who, after a car accident, retrieves a suitcase full of cash from the other car.
Swerve was a flavored and vitamin-fortified dairy drink introduced in 2003 by The Coca-Cola Company. It contained 51% skim milk, was sweetened by a blend of sugar and sucralose, and provided 30% of the recommended daily allowance of Vitamins A, C & D and Calcium. It was available in three flavors: a vanilla- banana flavor called Vanana, a blueberry- strawberry flavor called Blooo, and a Chocolate drink flavor. It was most often found in school cafeterias.
The drink carried the American Heart Association's "Heart Smart" seal, for meeting "food criteria for saturated fat and cholesterol for healthy people over age 2." It also carried the dairy industry's "Real Seal" because it had 51% real milk by weight (51% is the minimum requirement for obtaining the seal).
But others pointed out that water and sweeteners made up much of the other 49% of the drink, and that the calorie content was such that an 11 oz (325 ml) can of Swerve Chocolate Drink contained 160 calories, contrasted with the 140 calories found in a 12 oz can (355 ml) of Coca-Cola Classic.
The drink did not reach a high level of popularity among children and became increasingly harder to find. In fact, by the time Coca-Cola discontinued Swerve in 2005, only the chocolate flavored drink remained.
Swerve is a 2009 novel by Australian author Phillip Gwynne. It follows a boy named Hugh, a successful young cellist who lives in Sydney. His grandfather takes him on a trip to Uluru, where many mishaps happen.
Usage examples of "swerve".
We had swerved, close in, around the second headland, and were tearing across the mouth of the bay toward Agios Georgios.
One of the fat ugly Albacore sharks saw me as I slid down the dark cliff face, and he swerved towards me.
Only when collision seemed inevitable did the German pilot lose his nerve and swerve, and Biggies whirled round on his tail in the lightning right-hand turn for which the Camel was famous.
He swerved away from the Beaters, one of whom had hit the Bludger toward him before he realized what Harry had done, and, Snitch in hand, Harry ducked the metal sphere once again before hovering near the middle of the field, holding up the Snitch with a triumphant grin.
Kamahl continued to run, keeping an eye on Brue and swerving back and forth to keep the mage guessing where he was headed.
SPIRIT OF THE YEARS Hold what ye list, fond believing Sprites, You cannot swerve the pulsion of the Byss, Which thinking on, yet weighing not Its thought, Unchecks Its clock-like laws.
She answered that happiness could not be obtained by offending every moral law, and by swerving from our duties.
Raymond was to inspire them with his beneficial will, and the mechanism of society, once systematised according to faultless rules, would never again swerve into disorder.
Yama charged at the doctor then, and one of the flock of machines which floated in the big, airy room swerved and clipped him on the side of the head.
Only the edge of the storm had touched the fumarole field before it had swerved, leaving them unscathed.
John the gerbil, free from his hideaway, ran across the sofa down to the floor and swerved between their legs.
As the stranger moved on toward the unlighted swerve, Hurd slipped out of the doorway and followed him.
The jalopy swerved around a corner through a wind that smelled of turpentine and whitewash.
With a clownish skip of his black, scaly feet, and a show-offish swerve of his dusty ebon wings, Kaw took to the air once more.
VooDoo got outside, Kyre helplessly watched him run across the street, cars skidding and swerving to avoid the raving lunatic wailing and running with his arms flailing.