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verb vɪəvɪr 1no object, with adverbial of direction Change direction suddenly. 突然改变方向；转向 an oil tanker that had veered off course 一艘突然偏离了航道的油船。 Example sentencesExamples - The Subaru then veered across the road and hit a telegraph pole, eventually becoming lodged between the pole and a tree.
- So we shouldn't be surprised that she veered off course and didn't go the way that we originally thought that she was going to go.
- Dusk was gathering over the North Sligo landscape as the plane veered off course from its intended flight to Derry.
- We traveled eight days along the main road before veering away from our fellow travelers onto a smaller path heading north towards the Silver Crossings.
- After this the path veers right, away from the river.
- Suddenly the path veered sharply to the right and up the side of the mountain.
- One can veer off the main paths into gorgeous, overgrown woodland areas.
- Suddenly, the helicopter veered from its course and started climbing.
- Early reports suggest he was running down Bradshawgate when he suddenly veered into the road into the path of the police vehicle, which had its blue lights flashing and siren wailing.
- Suddenly something went wrong with her steering, and she veered sharply into the path of one of the convoy's escort trawlers.
- The island was directly in the path of the hurricane which devastated neighbouring Grenada, but was spared at the last minute when it suddenly veered off course.
- That's when we veered off course and nose-dived thousands of feet.
- Powell, 20, was giving two girls a lift home when he drove too fast on a bend and suddenly veered across the road.
- The marker posts lead under power lines to a hawthorn tree, where the path veers right, towards the ridge.
- The researchers noted that the helicopters stayed impressively true to the calculated flight paths, never veering more than 12-inches off course.
- She died after her Ford Fiesta was hit by a truck that veered into her path, an inquest heard yesterday.
- They were unaware that the jet had suddenly and inexplicably veered off course.
- At about 12 pm the driver of a blue Renault was travelling into Seend when he lost control of the car and veered into the path of a Land Rover travelling in the opposite direction.
- But at the launch an on-board computer cut the rocket's engines when a first-stage rocket failed, causing it to veer off course.
- We were on a boat tour when the captain dramatically veered off course, frantically talking on his cell phone.
Synonyms swerve, career, skew, swing, sheer, weave, wheel change direction, change course, go off course, deviate, be deflected, diverge turn (aside), branch off, curve, twist, bend, curl, incline, swivel, zigzag Sailing tack rare divagate - 1.1 Suddenly change an opinion, subject, type of behaviour, etc.
〈喻〉突然改变（观点，话题，行为） the conversation eventually veered away from theatrical things 谈话最终偏离了有关戏剧的事。 Example sentencesExamples - Althoff's paintings are eerily beautiful, displaying delicate mastery of line, color and form, while their subjects veer toward the strange and macabre.
- He would shout things out excitedly, or suddenly veer off the subject, or even run forward and violently shake a bored student.
- Charlie veered away from that topic of conversation, not feeling the need to talk about it anymore.
- They veer away from discussion, change the subject, or even ask openly if we can stop talking about whatever-it-is because it makes them too uncomfortable.
- Her Scottish accent is absolutely terrible, veering alarmingly between Australian, Irish and Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire.
- When questioning veers anywhere near these subjects he makes it clear he's fed up of talking about it.
- In later years Dave's politics veered in an anarchist direction.
- Packard's tone sometimes veers toward the self-congratulatory, but in this case, it somehow seems justified.
- Elsewhere in the cast, Justin Theroux plays Drew Barrymore's old boyfriend: an Irish gangster with an accent veering wildly from Glasgow to Dublin via Los Angeles.
- Shane veered the subject off course and Andrew felt a rush of gratitude.
- Occasionally Chef Wan veers off the subject of food altogether and breaks into a rant on, say, family values.
- This conversation was veering off the original topic, and onto the one Lauren was afraid it would come to.
- With no end in sight, Li veers between optimism and despair.
- It veers from Northern to Southern often within the same sentence.
- The conversation veered towards language and accents.
- In the show - running at the Tamarind Theatre in Los Angeles - Key veers from humor to tears to outrage in the blink of an eye.
- Eyes everywhere watched me, conversations hesitating, veering off in new directions as Mai and I entered.
- His mood could change in an instant and he would keep veering off the topic of conversation, forgetting what they had been talking about.
- The weather changes every five minutes, veering from sunshine to blizzards and back.
- Her opinions, too, arguably veer from the eminently sensible to the inexplicable.
- 1.2 (of the wind) change direction clockwise around the points of the compass.
（风）顺转 风向顺转了一度。BACK 的反义词。 The opposite of back Example sentencesExamples - At sunset, the wind freshened and veered to the north.
- The race began in a fresh south-westerly wind, which soon veered to the west and then swung round to the north before virtually dying away altogether.
- As we arrived at the river, the cold easterly gale had veered to a light westerly breeze with a touch of warmth in it, perfect for river trouting.
- The wind veers far enough to the east to take the boat along the north coast to Islas Margaritas, a pair of vertical rocky islands with a natural arch big enough to take the boat through sideways.
- At this stage it looks like we'll just get gale force winds tonight (unless it veers to the south), but nothing too destructive.
noun vɪəvɪr 1A sudden change of direction. 突然转向 Example sentencesExamples - In particular, Sword wants to discover what triggers the insects' specific movements - a sudden veer or turn or an increase in speed, for example.
- What had seemed at the time like an unexpected veer off into uncharted territory ultimately proved to be an anomaly as Henson returned to much safer and more familiar ground in subsequent series.
2American Football
An offensive play using a modified T-formation with a split backfield, which allows the quarterback the option of passing to the fullback, pitching to a running back, or running with the ball. 〔美橄〕T字阵式后卫变阵进攻 Example sentencesExamples - The veer offensive requires the quarterback to make the decision to run or hand off the ball even faster.
OriginLate 16th century: from French virer, perhaps from an alteration of Latin gyrare (see gyrate). gyrate from early 19th century: The Greek word guros meaning ‘a ring’ is the base of English gyrate. This passed into Latin as gyrare ‘to revolve’. Different as it may seem, to veer (late 16th century) is thought to be from the same source. It comes directly from French virer which is thought to be an alteration of gyrare. The original use in English was nautical in reference to the wind, meaning ‘change gradually’; it came to mean ‘change course’ from the early 17th century.
Rhymesadhere, Agadir, Anglosphere, appear, arrear, auctioneer, austere, balladeer, bandolier, Bashkir, beer, besmear, bier, blear, bombardier, brigadier, buccaneer, cameleer, career, cashier, cavalier, chandelier, charioteer, cheer, chevalier, chiffonier, clavier, clear, Coetzee, cohere, commandeer, conventioneer, Cordelier, corsetière, Crimea, dear, deer, diarrhoea (US diarrhea), domineer, Dorothea, drear, ear, electioneer, emir, endear, engineer, fear, fleer, Freer, fusilier, gadgeteer, Galatea, gazetteer, gear, gondolier, gonorrhoea (US gonorrhea), Greer, grenadier, hand-rear, hear, here, Hosea, idea, interfere, Izmir, jeer, Judaea, Kashmir, Keir, kir, Korea, Lear, leer, Maria, marketeer, Medea, Meir, Melilla, mere, Mia, Mir, mishear, mountaineer, muleteer, musketeer, mutineer, near, orienteer, pamphleteer, panacea, paneer, peer, persevere, pier, Pierre, pioneer, pistoleer, privateer, profiteer, puppeteer, racketeer, ratafia, rear, revere, rhea, rocketeer, Sapir, scrutineer, sear, seer, sere, severe, Shamir, shear, sheer, sincere, smear, sneer, sonneteer, souvenir, spear, sphere, steer, stere, summiteer, Tangier, tear, tier, Trier, Tyr, veneer, Vere, Vermeer, vizier, volunteer, Wear, weir, we're, year, Zaïre verb vɪəvɪr [with object]Nautical dated Slacken or let out (a rope or cable) in a controlled way. 〔航海〕〈古〉放松（缆绳等）
OriginLate Middle English: from Middle Dutch vieren. verbvɪrvir 1no object, with adverbial of direction Change direction suddenly. 突然改变方向；转向 an oil tanker that had veered off course 一艘突然偏离了航道的油船。 Example sentencesExamples - We traveled eight days along the main road before veering away from our fellow travelers onto a smaller path heading north towards the Silver Crossings.
- The island was directly in the path of the hurricane which devastated neighbouring Grenada, but was spared at the last minute when it suddenly veered off course.
- The marker posts lead under power lines to a hawthorn tree, where the path veers right, towards the ridge.
- She died after her Ford Fiesta was hit by a truck that veered into her path, an inquest heard yesterday.
- Suddenly, the helicopter veered from its course and started climbing.
- Dusk was gathering over the North Sligo landscape as the plane veered off course from its intended flight to Derry.
- So we shouldn't be surprised that she veered off course and didn't go the way that we originally thought that she was going to go.
- That's when we veered off course and nose-dived thousands of feet.
- Suddenly something went wrong with her steering, and she veered sharply into the path of one of the convoy's escort trawlers.
- After this the path veers right, away from the river.
- The researchers noted that the helicopters stayed impressively true to the calculated flight paths, never veering more than 12-inches off course.
- The Subaru then veered across the road and hit a telegraph pole, eventually becoming lodged between the pole and a tree.
- We were on a boat tour when the captain dramatically veered off course, frantically talking on his cell phone.
- At about 12 pm the driver of a blue Renault was travelling into Seend when he lost control of the car and veered into the path of a Land Rover travelling in the opposite direction.
- Early reports suggest he was running down Bradshawgate when he suddenly veered into the road into the path of the police vehicle, which had its blue lights flashing and siren wailing.
- Powell, 20, was giving two girls a lift home when he drove too fast on a bend and suddenly veered across the road.
- Suddenly the path veered sharply to the right and up the side of the mountain.
- They were unaware that the jet had suddenly and inexplicably veered off course.
- One can veer off the main paths into gorgeous, overgrown woodland areas.
- But at the launch an on-board computer cut the rocket's engines when a first-stage rocket failed, causing it to veer off course.
Synonyms swerve, career, skew, swing, sheer, weave, wheel - 1.1 Suddenly change an opinion, subject, type of behavior, etc.
〈喻〉突然改变（观点，话题，行为） the conversation eventually veered away from theatrical things 谈话最终偏离了有关戏剧的事。 Example sentencesExamples - He would shout things out excitedly, or suddenly veer off the subject, or even run forward and violently shake a bored student.
- Eyes everywhere watched me, conversations hesitating, veering off in new directions as Mai and I entered.
- Charlie veered away from that topic of conversation, not feeling the need to talk about it anymore.
- Her opinions, too, arguably veer from the eminently sensible to the inexplicable.
- It veers from Northern to Southern often within the same sentence.
- In the show - running at the Tamarind Theatre in Los Angeles - Key veers from humor to tears to outrage in the blink of an eye.
- Occasionally Chef Wan veers off the subject of food altogether and breaks into a rant on, say, family values.
- The conversation veered towards language and accents.
- Packard's tone sometimes veers toward the self-congratulatory, but in this case, it somehow seems justified.
- Shane veered the subject off course and Andrew felt a rush of gratitude.
- His mood could change in an instant and he would keep veering off the topic of conversation, forgetting what they had been talking about.
- With no end in sight, Li veers between optimism and despair.
- When questioning veers anywhere near these subjects he makes it clear he's fed up of talking about it.
- This conversation was veering off the original topic, and onto the one Lauren was afraid it would come to.
- Her Scottish accent is absolutely terrible, veering alarmingly between Australian, Irish and Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire.
- The weather changes every five minutes, veering from sunshine to blizzards and back.
- In later years Dave's politics veered in an anarchist direction.
- They veer away from discussion, change the subject, or even ask openly if we can stop talking about whatever-it-is because it makes them too uncomfortable.
- Althoff's paintings are eerily beautiful, displaying delicate mastery of line, color and form, while their subjects veer toward the strange and macabre.
- Elsewhere in the cast, Justin Theroux plays Drew Barrymore's old boyfriend: an Irish gangster with an accent veering wildly from Glasgow to Dublin via Los Angeles.
- 1.2 (of the wind) change direction clockwise around the points of the compass.
（风）顺转 the wind veered southwest 风向顺转了一度。BACK 的反义词。 The opposite of back Example sentencesExamples - The wind veers far enough to the east to take the boat along the north coast to Islas Margaritas, a pair of vertical rocky islands with a natural arch big enough to take the boat through sideways.
- At sunset, the wind freshened and veered to the north.
- As we arrived at the river, the cold easterly gale had veered to a light westerly breeze with a touch of warmth in it, perfect for river trouting.
- At this stage it looks like we'll just get gale force winds tonight (unless it veers to the south), but nothing too destructive.
- The race began in a fresh south-westerly wind, which soon veered to the west and then swung round to the north before virtually dying away altogether.
nounvɪrvir 1A sudden change of direction. 突然转向 Example sentencesExamples - What had seemed at the time like an unexpected veer off into uncharted territory ultimately proved to be an anomaly as Henson returned to much safer and more familiar ground in subsequent series.
- In particular, Sword wants to discover what triggers the insects' specific movements - a sudden veer or turn or an increase in speed, for example.
2American Football
An offensive play using a modified T-formation with a split backfield, which allows the quarterback the option of passing to the fullback, pitching to a running back, or running with the ball. 〔美橄〕T字阵式后卫变阵进攻 Example sentencesExamples - The veer offensive requires the quarterback to make the decision to run or hand off the ball even faster.
OriginLate 16th century: from French virer, perhaps from an alteration of Latin gyrare (see gyrate). verbvɪrvir [with object]Nautical dated Slacken or let out (a rope or cable) in a controlled way. 〔航海〕〈古〉放松（缆绳等）
OriginLate Middle English: from Middle Dutch vieren. |