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divert English

Meaning divert meaning

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divert Verb

— If you divert something, you change its path or flow so that it avoids a place it would have gone. The news release about the new funding was an attempt to divert attention from the government's problems. Money and resources were diverted from education into the war effort. The farmers were diverting water from the river. The Toronto-bound flight diverted to New York. — If you try to divert someone, you try to amuse them.

divert

— verb send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one — verb (= deviate) turn aside; turn away from — verb (= amuse) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion The play amused the ladies — verb withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions

Synonyms divert synonyms

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divert English » English

distract amuse entertain deflect turn turn away deviate sidetrack shunt avert shift diverge disport bend twist turn aside swerve stave off misappropriate hive off head off embezzle convert cheer avoid yaw waylay ward off wander from the subject veer undress turnabout turn towards transmute transform transfer tickle sublimate strip sport side-track rotate revolve reduce redirect recreate put off prevent please obstruct

Topics divert topics

What do people use divert to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation Working with water

Controlling water
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Attention

Conjugation divert conjugation

How do you conjugate divert?

divert · verb

Examples divert examples

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Movie subtitles

Giles, make sure there's an anaesthetist on their way down, and have the rest of the trauma call divert to Resus.
Misora's love and the brotherly affection of the two queens,.. saved by Farandola, can not divert him from his studies.
The French, advised by good intelligence of this most dreadful preparation, shake in their fear, and with pale policy, seek to divert the English purposes.
Divert all fighters from present missions to repel kamikaze attack on the fleet.
Oho. A triumph to divert them?
Trying to divert aircraft to crash for rescap protection of pilot.
Thus the pretty lady came through the wall, bed and all to divert herself with his highness.
Your attention. This may be a ruse to divert us..from some other part of the perimeter.
Our non-existent decoy, George Kaplan, created to divert suspicion from our actual agent, has fortuitously become a live decoy.
Give me 60 men to divert the Cossacks. I'll stampede the oxen.
I'll divert it to the sidetrack.
The next step would be to order the fighters after the bombers, to raise them visually and divert them from their course.
I thought you knew it and accused Adele to divert suspicion from me.
To divert our bombing effort from more important targets.
Moriarty concocted that Brandon case with all its fantastic convolutions expressly to divert my attention till the time the Star of Deli was delivered.
That was to divert suspicion from her.
To divert the noble lords and ladies of Paris.
Then what's the purpose? To divert attention from the fact that a single plane breaks formation each time it disappears.
And a very neat trick it was to divert suspicion from yourself but it struck me as odd that the man who murdered both Musgraves with such a sure hand should have missed so badly in your case unless of course, um, you yourself were the murderer.
You said they would divert suspicion but did they?
A quaint old maneuver to divert suspicion.
Would you be so good as to divert our friends. while Field Marshal Rommel and I have a few moments of private meditation?
A triumph to divert them?
This may be a ruse to divert us from some other part of the perimeter.
I devised additional apparatus that enabled me. to divert a portion of the atomic power. that was radiating between the ground station. and the radar aircraft circling 40,000 feet above.
The French, advised by good intelligence of this most dreadful preparation, shake in their fear and with pale policy seek to divert the English purposes.
Perhaps I can divert your attention with this.
What clever way to divert the conversation!
To divert the shame from me?
If you can divert their attention, we may get a chance to escape.
I'll be back, you don't divert.
The Daleks haven't attempted to divert us yet.
We received a subspace message asking us to divert here immediately.
Who would want to divert us here?
Divert all power to weapons.
It was thought the fiction of a court-martial would divert you from too soon regaining control of your vessel.
On our present course, you can divert to Vulcan with a loss of but 2.8 light-days.

News and current affairs

All the rest - scandals large and small, marijuana smoke, and errors of grammar - divert journalists but influence the results little.
Though international funding will be available, costs will fall largely to countries, with governments forced to divert scarce resources from development projects to adaptation initiatives.
The US should divert its wasteful military spending to new health financing.
The alternative would be to attempt to divert popular discontent at home by expanding Russia's intervention in Ukraine.
There is only one way to divert attention from this humiliating predicament: propaganda about self-reliance and the imminent threat from US imperialists and their South Korean lackeys must be turned up to a hysterical pitch.
Tucker's proposal makes good sense, but it is difficult - and arguably unethical - for charities that raised money to help Haitians now to divert some of those funds to programs to mitigate the damage caused by future earthquakes.
While many institutional reforms are development-friendly, they may not be targeted at key developmental goals - growth, improved governance, industrial and technological capability, poverty alleviation - and occasionally divert attention from them.
One of the great costs of the Bush administration's mistaken Iraq policy has been to divert attention and resources away from the just war in Afghanistan.
At the same time, Obama cannot allow these long-term issues to divert his attention from crucial short-term issues.
Thus, it hopes to divert public attention from still non-existent basic services, continuing sectarianism, weak oil production, scant infrastructure investment, and rampant corruption and cronyism.
When communism imploded, however, Yeltsin sought to divert Russia's intellectual energy toward money and the media.
The only thing you can do to prevent these five deaths is to throw a switch that will divert the trolley onto a side track, where it will kill only one person.
When asked what you should do in these circumstances, most people say that you should divert the trolley onto the side track, thus saving a net four lives.
This time, however, you are not standing near the track, but on a footbridge above the track. You cannot divert the trolley.
Much criticism has focused on the use of these numerical targets and indicators, which, skeptics argue, are misspecified, mismeasured, and divert attention from equally important areas.
Ethanol subsidies, such as those paid to American corn farmers, do not accomplish policymakers' avowed environmental goals, but do divert grain and thus help drive up world food prices.
On the contrary, it might merely divert attention from other issues of no less moment for those struggling to lift themselves out of poverty.
Transit countries such as Hungary try to divert refugees elsewhere.
His operation in Syria is partly designed to divert attention from his dismemberment of Ukraine.
Their coordinated efforts to divert North Korea peacefully from its nuclear course have also vindicated bilateral cooperation when both sides can define a common security stake.
The government is probably happy with these protests, for they divert attention from the real issue - the authorities' utter failure to address the fundamental problem.
Vast amounts of debt-financed spending will require higher future taxes, which will divert capital and labor from higher-value uses than can be sustained without permanent government lifelines.
Indeed, many regard Netanyahu's Iran obsession as nothing more than a successful ploy to divert attention from the Palestinian issue.
Any attempt in that direction is detrimental, because it would divert attention from the useful goal of disciplining the CDS market to make it more transparent, stable, and efficient.
Progress in economic thought after 1929 initially led to the argument that, in a depression, tariffs are justified because they would divert insufficient aggregate world demand to one's goods at the expense of others.
You cannot divert the trolley.

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