diverge
/daɪˈvɜːd͡ʒ/US/dɪˈvɝd͡ʒ/
diverge verb: to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
Verb
diverge (third-person singular simple present diverges, present participle diverging, simple past and past participle diverged)
- To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
- Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / […]1916, Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (poem), in Mountain Interval
- To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
- Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.
- The brooding, black-clad singer bridged a stark divide that emerged in the recording industry in the 1950s, as post-Elvis pop singers diverged into two camps and audiences aligned themselves with either the sideburned rebels of rock 'n' roll or the cowboy-hatted twangsters of country music.2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 28
- To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
- The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.
- The last 61 miles of the journey, from Kongsberg to Oslo, are through much less mountainous country. The railway curves sharply away from the Lågan^([sic]), and descends steadily, and in places steeply, past the head of Lake Fiskerumvatn to Hokksund, where the connecting line to the Bergen-Oslo...1956 April, H. A. Vallance, “To Oslo via Stavanger”, in Railway Magazine, page 219
- To become different, to separate (from another line or path).
- The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.
- Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
- The sequence x#95;n#61;n² diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.
- The sequence a#95;n#61;(-1)ⁿ diverges; it keeps oscillating between -1 and 1.
Noun
diverge (plural diverges)
- A point where a lane branches off from the main flow.
diverge meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
diverge in Tamil
- பிரிந்து செல், விலகு, விரி
diverge in Urdu
- بھٹک جانا, کھلنا, منحرف ہونا, پھیلنا, پھوٹنا, کھولنا
diverge in Bengali
- ভিন্ন দিকে যাওয়া, বিচ্যুত হওয়া, মতের অমিল হওয়া
diverge in Malayalam
- അകലുക, വ്യാപിക്കുക, തമ്മിൽ അകന്നുപോവുക, വിട്ടുമാറുക
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- diverge in Kannada
- ಕವಲಾಗು, ಸೀಳು, ಬೇರಾಗು, ಬೇರ್ಪಡು
- diverge in Sanskrit
- ह्वरति hvarati
Examples of diverge in a sentence
- Lojban started as a relex of Loglan, but the languages' grammars have since diverged.
- Here, the railway and the A9 trunk road, which have hitherto run close together, diverge.
- Ancestral vampyropods diverged from the ancestors of squid way back in the Triassic.
Antonyms of diverge
Forms of diverge
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | diverges |
| present participle | diverging |
| past participle | diverged |
| past | diverged |
| Noun | |
| plural | diverges |
Origin of diverge
From Medieval Latin dīvergō (“bend away from, go in a different direction”), from Latin dī- + vergō (“bend”).
Words formed from diverge
Words that rhyme with diverge
Questions about diverge
- What does diverge mean?
- Diverge means to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
- What is diverge in Tamil?
- Diverge in Tamil is பிரிந்து செல், விலகு, விரி. See Diverge meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is diverge?
- Diverge can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce diverge?
- Diverge is pronounced /daɪˈvɜːd͡ʒ/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of diverge?
- The past tense of diverge is diverged.
Words near diverge in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: diverge (page history and authors); diverge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); diverge (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Diverge (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); diverge (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); diverge (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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