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diverge

UK /daɪˈvɜːd͡ʒ/US /dɪˈvɝd͡ʒ/

verb 5
noun 1
forms 4

verb5

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To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
- Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / […] — 1916
•
To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
- The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.
•
(figurative) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
- Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.
•
(figurative) To become different, to separate (from another line or path).
- The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.
Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.

noun1

A point where a lane branches off from the main flow.

forms

diverged · diverging · diverges · divergeth

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