Crossword clues for veer
veer
- Steer off course
- Drive dangerously
- Change direction sharply
- Swerve off-course
- Make a sudden turn
- Do some weaving
- Depart from a straight line
- Avoid a pothole, say
- Avoid a pothole, perhaps
- Abruptly change course
- Turn quick
- Turn in a different direction
- Turn hard to the left, say
- Try to avoid a moose, maybe
- Try to avoid a crash, say
- Tack nautically
- Swing off the course
- Swerve off
- Suddenly turn in a different direction
- Suddenly turn
- Suddenly swerve
- Sudden shift
- Sudden change
- Peel off, say
- Not stay the course?
- Move to avoid a pothole, say
- Make a sudden course correction
- Make a sudden change of course
- Make a quick change of direction
- Leave one's lane suddenly
- Keep to one side
- Keep right, maybe
- Hang a sharp right
- Go off-course
- Dodge a pothole, perhaps
- Change direction
- Avoid another car, say
- Avoid an obstacle, in a way
- Avoid a suddenly stopped car, say
- Avoid a crash
- Angle off
- Alter one's course
- Turn sharply, I hope because you decided at the last minute to stop at that ice cream place on the side of the road!!!
- Change course suddenly
- Drive out of one's lane
- Tack, in a way
- Shift course
- Swerve (into)
- Yaw
- Go off in a new direction
- Zig or zag
- Bell rung at evening
- Recourse?
- Suddenly change course
- Deviate suddenly
- Angle (off)
- Turn aside
- Turn off
- Go off course
- Shift direction
- Tack, nautically
- Fork (off)
- Take a turn
- Really go out of one's way?
- Swerve sharply
- Change direction suddenly
- Alter course
- Swing off course
- Diverge
- Always chasing playing against wind
- Change tack at any time, driving leader back
- Old magistrate briefly brought up wind
- Suddenly change direction
- Turn suddenly
- Make a sharp turn
- Turn abruptly
- Swerve suddenly
- Jerk the wheel
- Avoid a collision, perhaps
- Swerve off course
- Shift sharply
- One way to avoid a collision
- Move out of the way
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Veer \Veer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Veered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Veering.] [F. virer (cf. Sp. virar, birar), LL. virare;
perhaps fr. L. vibrare to brandish, vibrate (cf. Vibrate);
or cf. L. viriae armlets, bracelets, viriola a little
bracelet (cf. Ferrule). Cf. Environ.]
To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the
west or north. ``His veering gait.''
--Wordsworth.
And as he leads, the following navy veers.
--Dryden.
an ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as
passion or as interest may veer about.
--Burke.
To veer and haul (Naut.), to vary the course or direction; -- said of the wind, which veers aft and hauls forward. The wind is also said to veer when it shifts with the sun.
Veer \Veer\, v. t. To direct to a different course; to turn; to wear; as, to veer, or wear, a vessel.
To veer and haul (Naut.), to pull tight and slacken
alternately.
--Totten.
To veer away or To veer out (Naut.), to let out; to slacken and let run; to pay out; as, to veer away the cable; to veer out a rope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "to change direction" (originally of the wind; 1610s of a ship), from Middle French virer "to turn" (12c.), of uncertain origin, perhaps (Diez) from the Latin stem vir- in viriae (plural) "bracelets." Gamillscheg finds von Wartburg's derivation of it from a Vulgar Latin contraction of Latin vibrare "to shake" to be nicht möglich. Related: veered, veering.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (context obsolete nautical English) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out. Etymology 2
n. A turn or swerve; an instance of veering. vb. (context intransitive English) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The Veer is an option running play often associated with option offenses in American football, made famous at the collegiate level by Bill Yeoman's Houston Cougars. It is currently run primarily on the high school level, with some usage at the collegiate and the professional level where the Veer's blocking scheme has been modified as part of the zone blocking system. The Veer is an effective ball control offense that can help minimize mismatches in a game for a team. However, it can lead to turnovers with pitches and handoff option reads.
Veer: An Epic Love story of a Warrior is a 2010 Indian action drama film directed by Anil Sharma, and starring Salman Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Sohail Khan, Jackie Shroff and Zarine Khan. The film was written by Salman Khan and set during the 1825 Pindari movement of Rajasthan, when India was ruled by the British.
Veer was released on 22 January 2010.
The Veer is an option running play often associated with option offenses in American football.
Veer may also refer to:
- Veer (microstock company) a Microstock company, a subsidiary of Corbis
- Veer Towers, condominium buildings in Paradise, Nevada
- Veer, one of Navarasa, in Indian aesthetics and literature
- Veer-Zaara, a 2004 Bollywood film starring Shahrukh Khan and Preity Zinta
- Veer (film), a 2010 Bollywood film starring Mithun Chakraborty, Salman Khan and Jackie Shroff
- Veer Mhaskoba, an avatar of the Hindu deity Shiva
- Veer Teja, a folk deity who lived in Rajasthan, India
- The Veer Union, an alternative rock/post-grunge quintet formed in 2004
- HP Veer, a 2011 smartphone by Hewlett-Packard
- A brave warrior is described as Veer in Hindi
- A GPS navigator brand in China
Usage examples of "veer".
He could not see the pilot, but he had a fair idea where the man would be huddled on the floor, and he was just aiming at that part of the floor when the helicopter veered sharply up the cliff.
He noticed that when he veered his feet delayed, did not achieve that harmonious coordination that an airman acquires like a sort of reflex.
When Marge arrived tonight, she would watch over Dunlap while the one-armed man and the son in need of a father would ride out to check the steers, and in the meantime, Slaughter leaned back, smiling, as the setting sun cast an alpenglow on Lucas who rode straight and strong, and a colt veered from its mother, and they gamboled in the sun.
A small mental push sent Bevel veering off toward the galley, obedient to the planted suggestion to share a glass of doctored wine with his captain.
Perceiving that his thoughts were beginning to veer wildly, Crockett gulped the last of his meal and followed Brockle Buhn to the anthracite tunnel.
They had done this before the sad day off the Crozets, and the sum was still much the same, amounting to the kedge alone and just enough cablets and hawsers to veer out a reasonable scope.
This happened quickly--the roar of flames, the clacketing of the rig, the heavy horses whipped to a lather through their fear, the wooden wheels bumping and veering between flames--but, quick as it was, Mamo never forgot.
Forewarned of a cliff beyond the next hill, he veered a quarter-mile out of his way to reach a stream he followed up a steep but climbable gorge.
As he suddenly veered from the glaring lights and confusion near the front door, Cumber slammed against him and they almost fell down.
The scene veered dizzily sideways, constantly drawing closer, until the pair was shown from the side.
She veered northeast to skirt the capital and soared still higher, thinking of Datan and what he would say to the news she brought of theomachy and flouted gods, of entelechies and Stormbringer and a problematical demigod called Tempus.
Veering, the Guajiro pilot took the plane to an altitude of three thousand feet.
Uriah Heep -- tall, ungainly, storklike, with a demeanor that veered uncomfortably between childlike arrogance and bourgeois obsequiousness.
Ignoring everybody, he loped through the scene without so much as an hola, veered into the bar door, banged it open, and plunged inside.
Van Hoven veered Iron Fist off the runway into the grass to avoid the Dornier, and as he passed the black night fighter he failed to note the figure that was following.