Dictionary Definition
detour n : a roundabout road (especially one that
is used temporarily while a main route is blocked) [syn: roundabout
way] v : travel via a detour
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
/ˈdi:tʊə/Translations
a diversion or deviation from one's original
route
Verb
- To make a detour.
- To direct or send on a detour.
Translations
intransitive: to make a detour
- Japanese: 迂回する (ukai-suru)
transitive: to direct or send on a detour
- Japanese: 迂回する (ukai-suru)
Anagrams
Extensive Definition
Detour can refer to:
- A route around a closed road.
- Detour (novel), a 1939 novel
- Detour (1945 film), a 1945 movie
- Detour (1999 film), a 1999 movie
- Detour (2002 film), a 2002 movie directed by David Dellecese.
- Detour (song), a 1951 song recorded by Patti Page.
- Detour, The, an adult-oriented cartoon block on the Canadian television channel TELETOON.
- Detour Records, a record label
- Detours, a 2008 studio album by Sheryl Crow
- Microsoft Detours a Microsoft library for instrumenting arbitrary Win32 functions on x86, x64, and IA64 machines.
detour in German: Detour
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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