Skip to main content

veer

/veer/US // vɪər //UK // (vɪə) //

倾向性,倾向于,倾向性的,倾向

Related Words

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another: The speaker kept veering from his main topic. The car veered off the road.
    • : to change direction clockwise.Nautical.to shift to a direction more nearly astern.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to alter the direction or course of; turn.
    • : Nautical. to turn away from the wind; wear.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a change of direction, position, course, etc.: a sudden veer in a different direction.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbchange direction
Forms: veered, veering

Examples

  • Almost immediately, my co-founder made it clear that my project management style was veering toward disaster.

  • The pandemic's effect on sleepEpstein has found that pandemic sleep habits have veered in two directions — better and worse — which have had an effect on naps.

  • Most notably, Miami-Dade County veered 22 points to the right in 2020 after drifting left in both 2012 and 2016.

  • The studied elegance of his “less-is-more” aesthetic keeps his film from veering into the manipulative territory that could easily undermine the cumulative emotional power it works so carefully to build.

  • So unless the sponsor really veers off course with the acquisition target, the investors are likely to go along with the acquisition.

  • Urban Outfitters has a track record of putting out products that veer into attention-grabbing, supposedly edgy territory.

  • “We were taught with Reefer Madness that it was a hard-core drug and we should veer away from it,” she says.

  • The woman allegedly decided to hit her brakes suddenly and veer toward an exit, losing Tirico.

  • And yet Cinco de Mayo can veer so, so quickly into Cinco de Weirdly Racist Douchebaggery.

  • It is also his tendency to occasionally veer off-script, as he did recently with his attacks on Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.

  • A moment later they were edging their way down the declivity of what once had been a railroad track, at last to veer.

  • If it should veer to the east before the second frame could be constructed the peril would be great.

  • It requires another head than mine to veer round so often (changer si souvent de systame).

  • In her preoccupation she let her fork veer away from her plate.

  • Jean Greb, seeing the peril, had chosen to climb above the steep portion on the west slope, rather than veer to the east.