go off at a tangent
91digress — I verb aberrare, alter course, be diffuse, branch out, change direction, depart, detour, deviate, digredi, divagate, divaricate, diverge, divert, drift, expatiate, fly off at a tangent, go astray, meander, ramble, rove, shift, sidestep, sidetrack …
92angularity — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Quality of having angles Nouns 1. (quality of having an angle) angularity, obliquity; angle, notch, fork, bifurcation; elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, shoulder, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke; zigzag,… …
93tangential — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. digressing, diverging, divergent, digressive, unrelated, extraneous. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. divergent, digressing, off on a tangent, straying, shifting, rambling, peripheral, barely related. ANT.: related, on… …
94Twaining — To meader away repeatedly from the point of a story, in the manner of master meanderer Mark Twain. He started telling us about the event, but got off on a tangent about who was related to whom. He s really bad about Twaining like that …
95Twaining — To meader away repeatedly from the point of a story, in the manner of master meanderer Mark Twain. He started telling us about the event, but got off on a tangent about who was related to whom. He s really bad about Twaining like that …
96descant — v 1. sing, warble, croon, trill, peal. 2. comment on, discourse, relate; elaborate, expatiate, dilate, amplify, dissertate, expand, enlarge, spell out; harp on, dwell on, hammer away at, beat into the ground, insist, yammer; digress, deviate,… …
97sub|tan|gent — «suhb TAN juhnt», noun. Geometry. the part of the axis of a curve cut off between the tangent and the ordinate of a given point in the curve …
98List of QI episodes (B series) — infobox tvseason season name = QI Series B caption = The front cover of the QI series B DVD, featuring Stephen Fry (left) and Alan Davies (right). dvd release date = 17 March, 2008 country = UK network = BBC first aired = 8 October, 2004 last… …
99List of QI episodes (E series) — infobox tvseason season name = QI Series E caption = dvd release date = country = UK network = BBC first aired = 21 September 2007 last aired = 14 December 2007 num episodes = 13 prev series = Series D next series = Series F|This is a list of… …
100keyboard instrument — ▪ music Introduction any musical instrument on which different notes can be sounded by pressing a series of keys, push buttons, or parallel levers. In nearly all cases in Western music the keys correspond to consecutive notes in the… …
