Detour

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Detour \De`tour"\, n. [F. d['e]tour, fr. d['e]tourner to turn
     aside; pref. d['e]- (L. dis-) + tourner to turn. See {Turn}.]
     A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct
     course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  96 Moby Thesaurus words for "detour":
     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
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Detour, MD
    Zip code(s): 21725