name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
veer
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /vɪə̯/
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General-American: /vɪ(ə)ɹ/
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CMU ARPABET: V IH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
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noun
Meaning 3
A piglet or a heifer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Cornwall
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verb
Meaning 4
To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
Meaning 5
To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
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verb
Meaning 6
To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- 1966, F. K. Hare, The Restless Atmosphere, 4th edition, Hutchinson University Library It is clear that when a front passes the observer, there must be a sudden shift in wind: in the northern hemisphere it will always veer, that is, shift in a clockwise sense.
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verb
Meaning 7
To shift aft.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
Meaning 8
To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
Meaning 9
To turn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 10
shift to a clockwise direction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the wind veered
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: back
Broader terms: switch, change over, shift
verb
Meaning 11
turn sharply; change direction abruptly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The car cut to the left at the intersection
- The motorbike veered to the right
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, slue, slew, cut
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: turn
Narrower terms: peel off, yaw
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French virer.
Borrowed from Middle Dutch vieren (“to slacken”).
Across languages
Translations
53 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: обръщане (obrǎštane) — turning
- Georgian: მობრუნება (mobruneba) — turning
- Italian: virata — turning
- Persian: ویراژ (virâž) — turning
- Russian: поворо́т (povorót) — turning
- Serbo-Croatian: obrtanje — turning
- Serbo-Croatian: skretanje — turning
- Bulgarian: промяна на посоката (promjana na posokata) — change of direction - of the wind
- Galician: rolar — change of direction - of the wind
- Māori: kōtore — change of direction - of the wind
- Serbo-Croatian: promjena smjera — change of direction - of the wind
- Serbo-Croatian: promena smera — change of direction - of the wind
- Chinese Mandarin: 转向 — to change direction or course suddenly
- Czech: stočit se — to change direction or course suddenly
- Czech: měnit směr — to change direction or course suddenly
- Czech: změnit směr — to change direction or course suddenly
- Czech: náhle zahnout — to change direction or course suddenly
- Finnish: kaartaa — to change direction or course suddenly
- French: virer — to change direction or course suddenly
- French: tourner — to change direction or course suddenly
- Georgian: მიმართულების შეცვლა (mimartulebis šecvla) — to change direction or course suddenly
- German: ausscheren — to change direction or course suddenly
- German: abdrehen — to change direction or course suddenly
- Italian: virare — to change direction or course suddenly
- Māori: tataha — to change direction or course suddenly
- Slovak: zahnúť — to change direction or course suddenly
- Slovak: zabočiť — to change direction or course suddenly
- Spanish: virar — to change direction or course suddenly
- Finnish: laskea — of wind: to shift in a clockwise direction
- German: rechtdrehen — of wind: to shift in a clockwise direction
- Māori: tōrua — of wind: to shift in a clockwise direction
- Māori: kōrure — of wind: to shift in a clockwise direction
- Bulgarian: хващам вятъра (hvaštam vjatǎra) — to change direction into the wind
- Finnish: kääntyä tuuleen — to change direction into the wind
- French: virer — to change direction into the wind
- Bulgarian: обръщам (obrǎštam) — transitive: to turn
- Czech: stočit — transitive: to turn
- Finnish: kääntää — transitive: to turn
- French: virer — transitive: to turn
- Georgian: მობრუნება (mobruneba) — transitive: to turn
- German: drehen — transitive: to turn
- Māori: kōtore — transitive: to turn
- Māori: tōrua — transitive: to turn
- Occitan: virar — transitive: to turn
- Persian: ویراژ دادن (virâž dâdan) — transitive: to turn
- Persian: تغییر جهت دادن (taġyir jahat dâdan) — transitive: to turn
- Portuguese: virar — transitive: to turn
- Russian: меня́ть курс (menjátʹ kurs) — transitive: to turn
- Russian: повора́чивать (povoráčivatʹ) — transitive: to turn
- Russian: поверну́ть (povernútʹ) — transitive: to turn
- Serbo-Croatian: скренути — transitive: to turn
- Serbo-Croatian: skrenuti — transitive: to turn
- Spanish: virar — transitive: to turn