detour

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: de=tour

OXFORD DICTIONARY

detour, n. & v.
--n. a divergence from a direct or intended route; a roundabout course.
--v.intr. & tr. make or cause to make a detour.

Etymology

F d{eacute}tour change of direction f. d{eacute}tourner turn away (as DE-, TURN)

THESAURUS

detour

aberrancy, aberration, ambages, back door, back road, back stairs, back street, back way, bear off, bend, bias, branch off, branching off, by-lane, bypass, bypath, byroad, bystreet, byway, change the bearing, circuit, circuitousness, circumbendibus, circumnavigate, circumvent, corner, crook, curve, declination, depart from, departure, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, deviousness, digress, digression, discursion, divagate, divagation, divaricate, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversion, divert, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, go around, go round about, hairpin, heel, indirection, make a detour, obliquity, pererration, rambling, roundabout, roundabout way, runaround, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, side door, side road, side street, skew, slant, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, trend, turn, turn aside, turn away from, turning, twist, variation, vary, veer, wandering, warp, yaw, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

detour

Circuit

N circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour, circumbendibus, ambages, loop, winding, zigzag, circuitous, indirect, roundabout, zigzag, backhanded, by a side wind, by an indirect course, in a roundabout way, from pillar to post.

Curvature

N curvature, curvity, curvation, incurvature, incurvity, incurvation, bend, flexure, flexion, flection, conflexure, crook, hook, bought, bending, deflection, deflexion, inflection, inflexion, concameration, arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep, curl, curling, bough, recurvity, recurvation, sinuosity, kink, carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck, parabola, hyperbola, helix, spiral, catenary, festoon, conchoid, cardioid, caustic, tracery, arched ceiling, arched roof, bay window, bow window, sine curve, spline, spline curve, spline function, obliquity, curved, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, devex, devious, recurved, recurvous, crump, bowed, vaulted, hooked, falciform, falcated, semicircular, crescentic, sinusoid, parabolic, paraboloid, luniform, lunular, semilunar, conchoidal, helical, double helical, spiral, kinky, cordiform, cordated, cardioid, heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped, kidney-shaped, reniform, lentiform, lenticular, bow-legged, oblique, circular, aduncated, arclike, arcuate, arched, beaked, bicorn, bicornuous, bicornute, clypeate, clypeiform, cymbiform, embowed, galeiform, hamate, hamiform, hamous, hooked, linguiform, lingulate, lobiform, lunate, navicular, peltate, remiform, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriferous, rostroid, scutate, scaphoid, uncate, unguiculate, unguiform.

Deviation

N deviation, swerving, obliquation, warp, refraction, flection, flexion, sweep, deflection, deflexure, declination, diversion, digression, depart from, aberration, divergence, zigzag, detour, divagation, wandering, vagrancy, evagation, bypaths and crooked ways, byroad, sidling, knight's move at chess, deviating, aberrant, errant, excursive, discursive, devious, desultory, loose, rambling, stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag, crab-like, astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways, circuitously, obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.