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/daɪvˈɜːʃən/
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[ US /daɪˈvɝʒən, dɪˈvɝʒən/ ]
[ US /daɪˈvɝʒən, dɪˈvɝʒən/ ]
NOUN
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an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates
drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation
for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles
scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists -
a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
a digression into irrelevant details
a diversion from the main highway
a deflection from his goal - an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack
How To Use diversion In A Sentence
- From Poiso we make a short diversion to drive to the top of the mountain.
- In the south the French division mounted a diversionary amphibious raid at Kum Kale on the Asian side of the Dardanelles.
- This induced those airs, and a love to those diversions, which make a young widow, of so lively a turn, the unfittest tutoress in the world, even to her own daughter. Clarissa Harlowe
- Hydrotherapy - relaxed swimming and flotation decrease the energy required in everyday life just to support the body weight, allowing the diversion of this energy to recovery.
- Handed one of his enemy Colly Cibber's pamphlets against him, he supposedly declared, "These things are my diversion"--but those who watched as he read it saw "his features writhen with anguish". Archive 2009-09-01
- A key component of that warfare by the ubër rich was to emaciate or destroy the unions through new laws restricting unionization, bankruptcy courts killing labor contracts, diversion of pension funds, abusive tactics against organizers, shipping jobs elsewhere and PR campaigns vilifying the very concept of collective bargaining to redress serious economic disadvantages. Sneak Attack
- So that one of his Oxford friends, as he traveled through Childrey, inquiring for his diversion of some of the people, Who was their minister, and how they liked him? received this answer: Our parson is one Mr. Pococke, a plain honest man. A Reader's Manifesto
- If you do, and you are perhaps more familiar with The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril (also featuring Lovecraft), then the aforementioned is very much in the tradition of this book, except Shadows Bend does not suffer from the sometimes tedious diversions in the other book. Superhero Prose Fiction: Related - Shadows Bend
- With all due respect, I think that your perspective here is horribly simplistic, uncomfortably mis-targeted (to the point of near endorsement), and quite diversionary from the essential core issue. Oaxaca to Guadalajara: The good.. the bad.. & the ugly
- Such items encouraged meaningful reflection on the Union victory; they also provided hours of entertainment and diversion.