desviarse

desviarse

► verbo pronominal

1 (avión, barco) to go off course; (coche) to make a detour

2 (golpe, balón) to be deflected

3 (persona, camino) to leave

■ tenemos que desviarnos de la carretera en el kilómetro cinco we have to turn off at the five-kilometre mark

4 figurado (tema) to stray (de, from), go (de, off)

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1) to turn aside, turn away

2) make a detour

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VPR

1) [de camino] [persona] to turn aside, turn away (de from)

[carretera] to branch off

desviarse de un tema — to stray off a subject

tomamos la primera salida que se desviaba de la carretera de la costa — we took the first turning off the coastal road

2) (Náut) to sail off course

3) (Aut) to make a detour

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(v.) = stray (from/outside), skew away, drift off, fork

Ex. Public libraries have had difficulty in establishing such a role without straying too far outside their own area of competence.

Ex. Management priorities are often skewed away from emphasis on continuing education.

Ex. The study loses track of its argument at times and drifts off into analyses of the peacemaking process that are not relevant.

Ex. Meanings in art come in layers, their ways forking and crossing one another like the meandering paths of a labyrinth.

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(v.) = stray (from/outside), skew away, drift off, fork

Ex: Public libraries have had difficulty in establishing such a role without straying too far outside their own area of competence.

Ex: Management priorities are often skewed away from emphasis on continuing education.

Ex: The study loses track of its argument at times and drifts off into analyses of the peacemaking process that are not relevant.

Ex: Meanings in art come in layers, their ways forking and crossing one another like the meandering paths of a labyrinth.

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■desviarse verbo reflexivo
1 (de un camino, ruta) to go off course
2 (tomar una desviación) to turn off
3 fig (del tema, asunto) to digress
'desviarse' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
derivar
- desviar
- divagar
- girar
- seguido
English:
branch off
- depart
- deviate
- off
- stray
- turn aside
- vary
- wander
- course
- deflect
- detour
- fork
- get
- way

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vpr

1. [cambiar de dirección] [conductor] to make a detour;

[vehículo] to go off course;

la carretera se desvía a la derecha the road goes off to the right;

desvíate en la próxima a la derecha take the next right turn

2. [apartarse]

desviarse de [camino, senda] to stray off;

[tema] to get off; [conversación] to get off the subject of, to go off at a tangent from; [propósito, idea] to lose sight of;

nadie se desviaba de la línea del partido no one departed from the party line

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desviarse

v/r

1 (girar) turn off

2 (bifurcarse) branch off

3 (apartarse) stray (de from)

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vr

1) : to branch off

2) apartarse: to stray

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desviarse vb

1. (girar) to turn off

en el cruce nos desviamos a la izquierda we turn left at the crossroads

2. (carretera) to branch off

el camino se desvía hacia la costa the path branches off towards the coast