divert vs deviate
Definitions
verb
- send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one
- withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions
- occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
- turn aside; turn away from
Examples
All the essential B vitamins and folic acid from the food are grabbed by the bacteria present in diverticula caused by faecal matter and stagnant food which prevents these vitamins to reach the blood.
The efforts of the Emperor Franz Joseph and the ruling elite to divert attention from their country's increasingly threadbare imperial pretensions furnished Musil with comic material galore.
Passengers' eyes divert to Lauren and they begin to mutter incoherently about her.
Definitions
adjective
- markedly different from an accepted norm
verb
- be at variance with; be out of line with
- turn aside; turn away from
- cause to turn away from a previous or expected course
noun
- a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
Examples
The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces.
Each school has to respect the system, but the system itself is always being tinkered with, each ranker is constantly making changes (as you note), and neither can deviate too far away from a system that at least makes some sense.
She fought the temptation to urinate, as she'd done to the first, as a deviate had done to her long ago.
