detour
83
3.0
- noun
- /ˈdiːtʊr/
:
desvío
- Due to road construction, we had to take a detour through a small town.
- take a detour
- make a detour
- roadblocks and detours
So that was sort of the first detour out of LA that I had.
- So that was sort of the first detour out of LA that I had.
- Now we have to make a detour all night long.
- And you achieve that goal after a long trek, detours along the road, logs in the path.
- Well, maybe Palm Springs, maybe Joshua Tree, maybe we want to take a big detour down to Baja, right?
- We just took a long detour.
- If you, if you block some of the roads in such a highway system, there's usually detours around the blocked roads.
- You know, let's take a a little detour here into China for a second.
- I'm going to take a slight detour because this is on my mind.
- But it was a great detour.
- The road to success is paved with dead squirrels, potholes and detours.
Examples
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Marie took yet another detour and arrived at the laundromat almost half an hour late.
Fiction book (1995) -
Now we have to make a detour all night long.
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So that was sort of the first detour out of LA that I had.
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Took a little bit of a detour this morning.
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Yeah, we gotta take a detour.
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Let's take a little detour.
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We're taking a detour.
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Leave time for unexpected detours that often lead to richer ideas.
Academic text (2010) -
The signs directed us to a detour around the accident on the highway.
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We found a scenic detour that led us past beautiful lakes and mountains.
Synonyms
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5.2
A change that moves attention or action away from the main plan
1
4.1
A longer route that goes around a blocked road to reach a place
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4.2
A change that sends traffic onto a different road
How Long
83
3.0
122
1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Detour comes from French parts de- 'away' and tour 'turn'. So a detour is a temporary route that 'turns you away' from the usual road to avoid a block.