Significado de detour en inglés

detour

/ˈdiː.tɔːr/ us

/ˈdiː.tʊr/

a different or less direct route to a place that is used to avoid a problem or to visit somewhere or do something on the way:

make a detour You'd be wise to make a detour to avoid the roadworks.

(UK diversion)

a different route that is used because a road is closed:

Traffic detours will be kept to a minimum throughout the festival.

an occasion when someone does something that is different from what is usual or expected, or says something that is not part of the main subject that is being talked or written about:

detour into His anti-alcohol campaign was a rare detour into the field of public health.

Barring any surprise detours, the governor is expected to sign both proposals.

While discussing education, she took a sharp detour into trade policy.

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detour

verb

mainly US

/ˈdiː.tɔːr/ us

/ˈdiː.tʊr/

[ I or T ]

to go or make someone go a different or less direct route to a place, in order to avoid a problem or to visit somewhere or do something on the way:

We had to detour around downtown, so it took us longer than usual.

[ T ]

to prevent someone from doing something or making progress for a period of time:

Detoured by family and children, she didn't focus on performing until the early 1990s.

[ I ]

to do something that is different from what is usual or expected, or to say something that is not part of the main subject that is being talked or written about:

detour into He came to the area to be a country doctor and detoured into state politics.

The book tries to speak to the layman but often detours into territory most interesting to medical technologists and statisticians.

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If just a tiny fraction of the outlet shoppers detoured downtown to visit the museum and do a little more shopping, it would be a big boost for the area.
Traffic was being detoured around potential hotspots in Manila.
Leaving the bedroom, he detoured into the kitchen to rinse out the mug and then wearily climbed back up the stairs to bed.
Conversation quickly detoured after Burch told his class The New York Times was interested in the story.
This country's sports fans have embraced a host of athletes whose careers appeared to be derailed or at least detoured by scandal.
Several factors could detour the agency's attempt at closure.
Your day might be detoured by a chance encounter with a friend.
Theroux was not happy to be reminded of this, and detoured into a long disquisition on literary sibling rivalry.

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(Definición de detour del Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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detour

noun [ C ]

/ˈdi·tʊər/

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a way of getting to a place that is indirect and longer than the usual way, and which is taken in order to avoid a particular problem or to do something special:

You’re advised to take a detour to avoid the road construction.

We made a little detour to drop Sarah off on the way home.

detour

verb [ I ] us

/ˈdi·tʊər/

We had to detour around the flooded road.

(Definición de detour del Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Ejemplos de detour

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These normalizing functions are defined in terms of simpler detourcontraction functions, where only detours of particular ordinal-levels are contracted.

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That first trip he had to make a long detour to his cousin's house in the mountains to stay the night.

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Instead, as if to avoid anatomically impossible movements, the motion takes longer paths and detours.

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We started to head to the wrong way to the side of the tent as we continued to make a detour avoiding the raven.

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There exist several possibilities to chose the detour mode.

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This patronage, however, was not consistent throughout; much of the detail of its detour thus requires a closer scrutiny.

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Whereas criticism must lead to reflexive insight, even if by detour and refraction.

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Similar problems require a detour into distributive categories to handle the conditional form of the filter function.

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But in order to state the view correctly, we must take a brief detour into the semantics of subjunctive conditionals.

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Section 5 makes a brief detour to consider some issues connected with the rule of transitivity (a notorious troublemaker in subtyping systems).

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This takes him on to his own position without too many detours.

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In this natural break, the listener could be taken on a literal and metaphorical detour, the juxtaposition of locations reflected in the false map.

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A left detour is performed in both cases, and the robot reaches its moving goal successfully.

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Presumably, detouring, running fast, hiding, and the like were the behaviors that gave humans a reproductive edge in this case.

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The renaming relation allows such detours to be eliminated.

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繞行的路，迂迴路, 繞行路線…

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