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Definition of detour in English: detournoun ˈdiːtʊəˈditʊr 1A long or roundabout route that is taken to avoid something or to visit somewhere along the way. he had made a detour to a cafe Example sentencesExamples - On their way from playoff also-rans to just plain also rans, the Timberwolves have made an improbable detour into the NBA's elite.
- A didactic air creeps into the proceedings as the two men pick at the bones of friendship and trust, making an unexpected detour into the morality of modern marketing techniques.
- A detour into the machine's guts to clean the heads yielded nothing, until I realized that the unit's analog recording function was fine.
- In order to arrive at that determination, though, we must first take a detour through the philosophical puzzle know as Newcomb's Paradox.
- On the way to the station we take a detour to visit the flat that Joe Orton lived in for seven years prior to his death.
- In Slovenia I made a detour to Lake Bohinj, where Agatha and second husband Max had once tried to holiday incognito, only to be run to ground by enthusiastic Slovene journalists.
- Today as we were driving back from Arnprior, Ontario after a busy Thanksgiving weekend, K suggested we take a detour through Carp to see this building pictured above.
- She lives near here, and I keep on thinking I should take a detour past her house on the way to town, but I'm always running late so I've never done it before.
- So when confronted with a hill, elephants prefer to take a detour along level terrain, the researchers conclude.
- When we travel further along the road to Foca, and take a detour into the Treskavica mountains, it is easier to see what she means.
- The impeccable timing of all the actors helps make Le Rire de la mer laugh-out-loud funny all the way through, and ultimately quite moving, without a single detour into maudlin.
- Many technical careers take a detour into management.
- P.S. Is everybody enjoying the detour into securities law?
- Having taken a detour into international pop stardom, he has returned to his first love, jazz music, to record three albums for the Concord label since 2001.
- I was a bit tired at this point, so it was good to take a detour into Buckden and pause for cups of sweet tea, coffee cake and jam scone at the excellent West Winds Cottage Tea Room.
- While on their way to sunny Hollywood, California, the Carters take a detour to visit an old abandoned silver mine.
- Which means I have to take a detour from my trip to the bathroom, to go the supply closet upstairs and locate more toilet paper or paper towels or whatever else is needed.
- They are quite an attraction, lots of people come to have, like relatives who are visiting family in the area, take a detour to come and have a look.
- On the way to Lake Hood, take a detour to Earthquake Park.
- Travelling with her parents to their new home in the countryside, they take a detour to explore an old-fashioned Japanese bath-house, which is actually a bath-house for spirits.
- 1.1 An alternative route for use by traffic when the usual road is temporarily closed.
Example sentencesExamples - A temporary detour has been constructed while the main road is being rebuilt and resurfaced.
- Then it built a wooden detour around the closed portion until repairs could be made.
- When there is a traffic detour or a kid gets sick or I wake up late?
- Traffic and the general public are greatly inconvenienced by delays and detours severely impacting on road users in the area.
- Much of the road at Strandside North, which leads to several other major housing estates, was also heavily flooded forcing residents to take a detour along the Military Road to get home.
- But when I took the no. 7 bus to work in the morning, it took a detour around the flooded roads (it must have been pretty bad).
- This route is a longer detour than the underpass now being built at Top Lane, but would likely not be a major inconvenience for car users.
- A closed road and a detour on the way, but I manage to find my way around that.
- The tree lay supine across the street and vehicles had to take a detour for over three hours, which time it took the Corporation employees to axe the tree into transportable portions.
- A five-mile section of the upland route between Llanbrynmair and Llangadfan has not yet been completed, so walkers are sent on tedious road detours.
- When you reach a roadblock, you have three choices: Retreat, ram stubbornly into the barrier, or take a detour and continue forward.
- I'm actually one of those pathetic drivers who when having to take a detour, just heads in the right direction.
- Once approved, all requests are passed along to Lucien Lespérance in the circulation department, whose job is to work out all the traffic detours.
- For many motorists, daily back-ups between the Fort Duquesne and West End bridges on the detour for outbound traffic were the worst part of the construction.
- With a high degree of ongoing roadworks on the province's roads and resultant narrowing of roads or gravel detours, conditions become even more treacherous.
- All this means construction vehicles, traffic detours and arm-waving, red-stick people abound.
- There are traffic restrictions and detours in operation in the area so motorists are asked to be careful.
- This is a view from the west towards the construction site of the new bridge across the Klein Windhoek river where traffic has to negotiate the detour and temporary road markings.
- ‘With the opening of the grade separator, residents of east Bangalore and surrounding areas no longer have to put up with traffic detours and dusty roads,’ he said.
- This meant that you'd be driving along, and suddenly have to take a detour, sometimes of up to 15 kilometres.
Synonyms roundabout route, indirect route, circuitous route, scenic route, tourist route, diversion, bypass, ring road, alternative route, digression, deviation, byway, bypath British relief road British informal rat run
verb ˈdiːtʊəˈditʊr North American 1no object, with adverbial of direction Take a long or roundabout route. he detoured around the walls Example sentencesExamples - The crews detoured in a zigzag route through 19 cities before reaching Seattle.
- After his victory, Alexander rolled through Asia Minor, detouring to Gordium to meet up with his general Parmenio.
- We detoured around two possible car bombs that had been cordoned off while Iraqis cautiously approached.
- My Mother brow beat me into making this trip and my cousin, the one who knows how crazy they all are, wants me to detour on the way home to go see her Mother.
- Jason detoured from his route to the bar and opened the door.
- Scott, as I've suggested, follows the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers while detouring through Burke's Reflections.
- He will detour through the town where my aunt is buried.
- Having eschewed the idea of going to the gym after work, I detoured to the grocery store.
- Some spectators were dancing right in front of the bandstand and every so often, a runner would detour out of the lane to join them in a few steps.
- Without abandoning their own genres - mostly rock, but also soul, country and western, and Latin - they have detoured into Sinatra country as a way of paying musical tribute.
- Many users can get around such blocks, however, through the use of proxy servers that detour around them.
- Even Bryson himself is not immune; he detoured from his planned route to visit Bryson City, and found himself regretting he did not have a crowbar to remove a souvenir sign.
- We're detouring from the main trekking route to visit Babu's parents - Lhakpa is now 63, and Babu's mother, Pasi, is 61.
- Often losing sight of its prey, Portia spends twenty minutes detouring through the foliage to reach the optimal vantage point.
- On the other hand, you can also affect where the traffic detours through the house via where you store popular items.
- Most editorial writers seem determined to detour around obvious parallels with apartheid-era South Africa.
- Then my brother called, saying he had forgotten to buy video tape for the camcorder, so two bridesmaids detoured to find a Safeway to buy video tape.
- He gets up and heads for the mover, though he detours long enough to open the rampwell door.
- As my husband and I try to leave, a Burroughs dad stops us to insist that we detour past the lunchroom, where volunteers have set out cookies and Dunn Bros coffee.
- It was felt the route could become deeply rutted by uncontrolled vehicular use, encouraging drivers to detour off the route onto the fells.
- 1.1with object Avoid by taking a detour.
I would detour the endless stream of motor homes Example sentencesExamples - But that path detours the real problems of relationships today and their official recognition.
- It detours the usual ways that you think about exercise and tunes in to what you really need.
- It is the price we pay for fifty years of political and intellectual stagnation, a time when the political dynamic of capitalism was detoured and frozen onto a cold war sidetrack.
- And when he looked up and out he was startled to see a people so numerous on the seashore that he thought for a moment they were nkrane, the black ants he had detoured a hundred strides before.
- Occasionally on these walks I would encounter something that was not comfortable, and frequently would have to detour certain areas because of it.
Origin Mid 18th century (as a noun): from French détour 'change of direction', from détourner 'turn away'. Definition of detour in US English: detournounˈditʊrˈdēto͝or 1A long or roundabout route that is taken to avoid something or to visit somewhere along the way. he had made a detour to a cafe Example sentencesExamples - The impeccable timing of all the actors helps make Le Rire de la mer laugh-out-loud funny all the way through, and ultimately quite moving, without a single detour into maudlin.
- A detour into the machine's guts to clean the heads yielded nothing, until I realized that the unit's analog recording function was fine.
- So when confronted with a hill, elephants prefer to take a detour along level terrain, the researchers conclude.
- While on their way to sunny Hollywood, California, the Carters take a detour to visit an old abandoned silver mine.
- A didactic air creeps into the proceedings as the two men pick at the bones of friendship and trust, making an unexpected detour into the morality of modern marketing techniques.
- I was a bit tired at this point, so it was good to take a detour into Buckden and pause for cups of sweet tea, coffee cake and jam scone at the excellent West Winds Cottage Tea Room.
- On the way to Lake Hood, take a detour to Earthquake Park.
- Which means I have to take a detour from my trip to the bathroom, to go the supply closet upstairs and locate more toilet paper or paper towels or whatever else is needed.
- In order to arrive at that determination, though, we must first take a detour through the philosophical puzzle know as Newcomb's Paradox.
- They are quite an attraction, lots of people come to have, like relatives who are visiting family in the area, take a detour to come and have a look.
- Having taken a detour into international pop stardom, he has returned to his first love, jazz music, to record three albums for the Concord label since 2001.
- On their way from playoff also-rans to just plain also rans, the Timberwolves have made an improbable detour into the NBA's elite.
- On the way to the station we take a detour to visit the flat that Joe Orton lived in for seven years prior to his death.
- Today as we were driving back from Arnprior, Ontario after a busy Thanksgiving weekend, K suggested we take a detour through Carp to see this building pictured above.
- Many technical careers take a detour into management.
- Travelling with her parents to their new home in the countryside, they take a detour to explore an old-fashioned Japanese bath-house, which is actually a bath-house for spirits.
- When we travel further along the road to Foca, and take a detour into the Treskavica mountains, it is easier to see what she means.
- P.S. Is everybody enjoying the detour into securities law?
- In Slovenia I made a detour to Lake Bohinj, where Agatha and second husband Max had once tried to holiday incognito, only to be run to ground by enthusiastic Slovene journalists.
- She lives near here, and I keep on thinking I should take a detour past her house on the way to town, but I'm always running late so I've never done it before.
- 1.1 An alternative route for use by traffic when the usual road is temporarily closed.
Example sentencesExamples - Once approved, all requests are passed along to Lucien Lespérance in the circulation department, whose job is to work out all the traffic detours.
- Much of the road at Strandside North, which leads to several other major housing estates, was also heavily flooded forcing residents to take a detour along the Military Road to get home.
- This route is a longer detour than the underpass now being built at Top Lane, but would likely not be a major inconvenience for car users.
- Traffic and the general public are greatly inconvenienced by delays and detours severely impacting on road users in the area.
- A temporary detour has been constructed while the main road is being rebuilt and resurfaced.
- The tree lay supine across the street and vehicles had to take a detour for over three hours, which time it took the Corporation employees to axe the tree into transportable portions.
- When you reach a roadblock, you have three choices: Retreat, ram stubbornly into the barrier, or take a detour and continue forward.
- This meant that you'd be driving along, and suddenly have to take a detour, sometimes of up to 15 kilometres.
- A closed road and a detour on the way, but I manage to find my way around that.
- ‘With the opening of the grade separator, residents of east Bangalore and surrounding areas no longer have to put up with traffic detours and dusty roads,’ he said.
- This is a view from the west towards the construction site of the new bridge across the Klein Windhoek river where traffic has to negotiate the detour and temporary road markings.
- For many motorists, daily back-ups between the Fort Duquesne and West End bridges on the detour for outbound traffic were the worst part of the construction.
- I'm actually one of those pathetic drivers who when having to take a detour, just heads in the right direction.
- A five-mile section of the upland route between Llanbrynmair and Llangadfan has not yet been completed, so walkers are sent on tedious road detours.
- When there is a traffic detour or a kid gets sick or I wake up late?
- There are traffic restrictions and detours in operation in the area so motorists are asked to be careful.
- But when I took the no. 7 bus to work in the morning, it took a detour around the flooded roads (it must have been pretty bad).
- With a high degree of ongoing roadworks on the province's roads and resultant narrowing of roads or gravel detours, conditions become even more treacherous.
- Then it built a wooden detour around the closed portion until repairs could be made.
- All this means construction vehicles, traffic detours and arm-waving, red-stick people abound.
Synonyms roundabout route, indirect route, circuitous route, scenic route, tourist route, diversion, bypass, ring road, alternative route, digression, deviation, byway, bypath
verbˈditʊrˈdēto͝or North American 1no object, with adverbial of direction Take a long or roundabout route. he detoured around the walls Example sentencesExamples - Having eschewed the idea of going to the gym after work, I detoured to the grocery store.
- The crews detoured in a zigzag route through 19 cities before reaching Seattle.
- Jason detoured from his route to the bar and opened the door.
- We're detouring from the main trekking route to visit Babu's parents - Lhakpa is now 63, and Babu's mother, Pasi, is 61.
- It was felt the route could become deeply rutted by uncontrolled vehicular use, encouraging drivers to detour off the route onto the fells.
- We detoured around two possible car bombs that had been cordoned off while Iraqis cautiously approached.
- Then my brother called, saying he had forgotten to buy video tape for the camcorder, so two bridesmaids detoured to find a Safeway to buy video tape.
- Without abandoning their own genres - mostly rock, but also soul, country and western, and Latin - they have detoured into Sinatra country as a way of paying musical tribute.
- He will detour through the town where my aunt is buried.
- Some spectators were dancing right in front of the bandstand and every so often, a runner would detour out of the lane to join them in a few steps.
- Scott, as I've suggested, follows the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers while detouring through Burke's Reflections.
- Even Bryson himself is not immune; he detoured from his planned route to visit Bryson City, and found himself regretting he did not have a crowbar to remove a souvenir sign.
- Most editorial writers seem determined to detour around obvious parallels with apartheid-era South Africa.
- As my husband and I try to leave, a Burroughs dad stops us to insist that we detour past the lunchroom, where volunteers have set out cookies and Dunn Bros coffee.
- He gets up and heads for the mover, though he detours long enough to open the rampwell door.
- Many users can get around such blocks, however, through the use of proxy servers that detour around them.
- My Mother brow beat me into making this trip and my cousin, the one who knows how crazy they all are, wants me to detour on the way home to go see her Mother.
- On the other hand, you can also affect where the traffic detours through the house via where you store popular items.
- After his victory, Alexander rolled through Asia Minor, detouring to Gordium to meet up with his general Parmenio.
- Often losing sight of its prey, Portia spends twenty minutes detouring through the foliage to reach the optimal vantage point.
- 1.1with object Avoid or bypass (something) by taking a roundabout route.
I would detour the endless stream of motor homes Example sentencesExamples - It is the price we pay for fifty years of political and intellectual stagnation, a time when the political dynamic of capitalism was detoured and frozen onto a cold war sidetrack.
- It detours the usual ways that you think about exercise and tunes in to what you really need.
- But that path detours the real problems of relationships today and their official recognition.
- And when he looked up and out he was startled to see a people so numerous on the seashore that he thought for a moment they were nkrane, the black ants he had detoured a hundred strides before.
- Occasionally on these walks I would encounter something that was not comfortable, and frequently would have to detour certain areas because of it.
Origin Mid 18th century (as a noun): from French détour ‘change of direction’, from détourner ‘turn away’. |