go off at a tangent
41deviation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Turning away Nouns deviation; swerving, warp, refraction; deflection, declination; diversion, divergence, digression, excursion, departure from, aberration; zigzag; siding; detour, bypass, byroad,… …
42tan·gent — /ˈtænʤənt/ noun, pl gents [count] geometry : a line that touches a sphere or circle at only one point go off on a tangent (US) (or Brit go off at a tangent) : to start talking about something that is only slightly or indirectly related to the… …
43Saturday Night Live characters appearing on Weekend Update — Weekend Update has been a platform for Saturday Night Live characters to grow and gain popularity ever since Gilda Radner used it to create Emily Litella and Roseanne Roseannadanna. Many cast members have used Update as the primary vehicle for a… …
44adjacent — adjacent, adjoining, contiguous, abutting, tangent, conterminous, juxtaposed mean being in close proximity. Adjacent does not always imply actual contact but it does indicate that nothing of the same kind comes between; adjacent lots are in… …
45deviate — I verb aberrare, alter course, angle off, be at variance, be different, be distinguished from, be oblique, bear no resemblance, bear off, branch out, break bounds, break the pattern, change direction, clash, clash with, conflict with, contrast,… …
46ramble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. stroll, saunter, stray, rove, wander; digress, maunder. See travel, loquacity, deviation, diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To saunter] Syn. stroll, pRomenade, roam, wander; see roam , walk 1 . 2 …
47Deviation — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Deviation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 deviation deviation Sgm: N 1 swerving swerving &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 obliquation| obliquation| warp refraction Sgm: N 1 flection flection flexion …
48diverge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. separate, branch off, fork; sunder; divaricate, deviate; differ, vary, disagree; veer, swerve; detach; go off at a tangent; radiate. See difference, deviation, disagreement. II (Roget s IV) v. 1.… …
49wander — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. rove, ramble, stroll, walk, range; digress, swerve, deviate, stray; rave, maunder, be delirious; moon; straggle, forage. See travel, deviation, insanity, motion. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To stroll]… …
50digress — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. diverge, ramble, deviate, wander. See deviation, loquacity, diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. stray, diverge, maunder, deviate; see deviate , ramble 2 . See Synonym Study at deviate . III (Roget …
