different between swerve vs sidestep
swerve
English
Alternative forms
- swarve
Etymology
From Middle English swerven, swarven, from Old English sweorfan (“to file; rub; polish; scour; turn aside”), from Proto-Germanic *swerban? (“to rub off; wipe; mop”), from Proto-Indo-European *swerb?- (“to turn; wipe; sweep”). Cognate with West Frisian swerve (“to wander; roam; swerve”), Dutch zwerven (“to wander; stray; roam”), Low German swarven (“to swerve; wander; riot”), Swedish dialectal svärva (“to wipe”), Icelandic sverfa (“to file”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sw??(?)v/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sw?v/
- Rhymes: -??(r)v
Verb
swerve (third-person singular simple present swerves, present participle swerving, simple past and past participle swerved)
- (archaic) To stray; to wander; to rove.
- A maid thitherward did run, / To catch her sparrow which from her did swerve.
- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
- 1785, The Book of Common Prayer According to the Use in King's Chapel
- I swerve not from thy commandments.
- They swerve from the strict letter of the law.
- October 28, 1705, Francis Atterbury, a sermon
- many who, through the contagion of evil example, swerve exceedingly from the rules of their holy Faith
- 1785, The Book of Common Prayer According to the Use in King's Chapel
- To bend; to incline.
- To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
- c. 1692, John Dryden, Amaryllis
- The tree was high; / Yet nimbly up from bough to bough I swerved.
- c. 1692, John Dryden, Amaryllis
- To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
- Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
- To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
- 1869, Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace, Part 10, Chapter 39:
- The French invaders, like an infuriated animal that has in its onslaught received a mortal wound, felt that they were perishing, but could not stop, any more than the Russian army, weaker by one half, could help swerving.
- 1869, Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace, Part 10, Chapter 39:
Related terms
- swarf
Translations
Noun
swerve (plural swerves)
- A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.
- 1990, American Motorcyclist (volume 44, number 7, page 11)
- The distinction between using a skill subconsciously and employing it in the full knowledge of what was happening made a dramatic difference. I could execute a swerve to avoid an obstacle in a fraction of the time it previously took.
- 1990, American Motorcyclist (volume 44, number 7, page 11)
- A deviation from duty or custom.
- 1874, William Edwin Boardman, Faith-work, Or the Labours of Dr. Cullis, in Boston (page 56)
- […] indubitable evidence of a swerve from the principle of the work.
- 1874, William Edwin Boardman, Faith-work, Or the Labours of Dr. Cullis, in Boston (page 56)
Derived terms
- body swerve
Translations
Anagrams
- Wevers
Middle English
Verb
swerve
- Alternative form of swerven
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sidestep
English
Etymology
From side +? step.
Noun
sidestep (plural sidesteps)
- A step to the side.
- A motion, physical or metaphorical, to avoid or dodge something.
Verb
sidestep (third-person singular simple present sidesteps, present participle sidestepping, simple past and past participle sidestepped)
- (intransitive) To step to the side.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 180:
- I […] knocked and waited. […] He sidestepped, and I went in.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "Die Like a Dog", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 180:
- (transitive) To avoid or dodge.
- They sidestepped the issue.
Translations
Anagrams
- despites, seed pits, stepside
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