Word Meanings - DEFLECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course. (more info) 1. The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation. The other leads to the same point,

Additional info about word: DEFLECTION

The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course. (more info) 1. The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation. The other leads to the same point, through certain deflections. Lowth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEFLECTION)

• Inversion
• Reversal
• deflection
• alteration
• permutation
• violation
• transposition
• Turn
• Revolution
• rotation
• recurrence
• change
• vicissitude
• winding
• bend
• curve
• alternation
• opportunity
• occasion
• time
• deed
• office
• act
• treatment
• purpose
• requirement
• convenience
• talent
• gift
• tendency
• character
• exigence
• crisis
• form
• cast
• shape
• manner
• mold
• fashion
• cut

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEFLECTION)

• Conserve
• retain
• stabilitate
• fix
• clinch
• stand
• endure
• last
• hold
• Straighten
• unbend
• rectilineate
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

Related words: (words related to DEFLECTION)

• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• WIND-RODE
  Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• CONVENIENCE; CONVENIENCY
  1. The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency,
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• WINDTIGHT
  So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• WINDLACE
  See SCOTT
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• TALENT
  tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure. See Thole, v. t., 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
• ALTERNATION
  Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.