Diverted

Word DIVERTED
Character 8
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /daɪˈvɜːtəd/

Definitions and meanings of "Diverted"

What do we mean by diverted?

To turn aside from a course.

To distract.

To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)

To turn aside; to digress.

Someone who changes the topic of an argument, because they are losing the argument. Urban Dictionary

The Y-Shaped device in an airplane used for the directional evacuation of turd flow. Urban Dictionary

Female equivalent of the cock block. Urban Dictionary

To flirt with someone to get something out of them and then ditching them. Urban Dictionary

Don’t care about something or ignore something Urban Dictionary

To sell someone out to take the focus off of one's own devious ways Urban Dictionary

See mudflap. #squirrelgate Urban Dictionary

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The word "diverted" in example sentences

When the law has thus created a certain amount of obstacles, and when, to overcome them, humanity has diverted a corresponding amount of labor, you are no longer allowed to call for the reform of the law; for, if you point out the _obstacle_, they show you the labor which it brings into play; and if you say this is not labor created but _diverted_, they answer you as does the _Esprit ❋ Fr��d��ric Bastiat (1825)

Your long post of NON Iraqi related incidents once again diverted from the topic. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And if those contingency plans are going to work – and the airlines are to avoid hefty DOT fines – airports need to be ready to provide the extra ground operations support and in-terminal services for an increase in diverted flights and for the additional planes that need to return to the gate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Money was diverted from the planned completion of the outdoor space to help pay for the alarm system. ❋ Jim Shahin (2010)

I believe some of the chemicals and glassware that enabled me to do the more interesting chemistry experiments were diverted from the company stockroom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This, at least, keeps the average taxpayer diverted from the real disasters affecting or about to affect their lives .. the meltdown and bankrupting of everything American. ❋ Canadian Silver Bug/Green Assassin Brigade (2009)

And that really makes me wonder how I'm going to eventually react to the film adaptation, because if it's been diverted from the story that this book tells, and given some glossy "teen romp" veneer that pollutes so many movies, I'm going to be sorely disappointed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And she is off: her train of thought diverted from the blues by her other great passion, the True Colors organisation for gay rights, which she established in 2007. ❋ Alfred Hickling (2010)

“Recyclable”: The product has to be capable of being collected/diverted from the solid waste stream, and there must actually be existing programs in a substantial majority of the communities in which the product is sold or a substantial majority of the population to which the product is sold. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

EU members were unusually outspoken in appearances before the U.N. Human Rights Council, saying they were worried about preparations for a global racism conference to be held next month because attention was being diverted from the real problems of racial discrimination. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some Blue Line trains will be diverted from the disrupted area. ❋ Robert Thomson (2010)

That way, attention is diverted from the criminal practice of bundling bad mortgages for sale on speculation to investors — something only the banksters could do. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Having said that it seems too easy to distract the left with these conspiricies and allow energy to be diverted from a progressive agenda. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rather than focus on the fact that the public were being asked to insure RBS against losses, the story of Goodwin diverted attention. ❋ Not A Sheep (2009)

NASA hasn't been diverted from a lunar program by believing our own "propaganda" - instead, they've been wasting $100 billion as fast as they can by pouring it down the scientific dead-end known as ISS. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Food prices are on the increase and people are starving due in part to crops being diverted from the food supply to fuel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'm already on record in this cross-country wander as being once narrowly diverted from a career of horseplaying and a subscriber to Harper's, so it's perhaps no surprise that I recall vividly "Horseman, Pass By," John Jeremiah Sullivan's lengthy 2002 piece from that magazine on his father, a sportswriter, and Kentucky horse racing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At no time was my attention diverted from the screen, as it would have if Iron Man became boring or bombastic. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The way station to which they are suddenly diverted is subjected to hyperspatial gravity waves that are getting stronger and threaten countless planets in the galaxy, including Earth. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Riley] became a diverter after losing the [argument] with [Tracy]. ❋ BlesserLesser (2020)

Aaron grabbed the [turd diverter] to avoid [ramp] [trout]. ❋ LavatorySpecialist (2016)

We are 2 [single ladies] & we were out with our gay male friends and all the [single guys] assumed they were our boyfriends & didnt come over to us! So we said they were cock-blocking us female style and then after a few drinks made up the phrase [blurt divert]! ❋ Miss BT7 (2014)

Alicia was an expert at flirt and divert. She'd approach a guy at the bar, flirt with him all night so long as he paid for the drinks, and then left towards the end of the night when he went to the bathroom. "I'm going to give her a ride home but she wants to stop at the gas station first." "Dude, it's just flirt and divert, she's done it at every party I've seen her at. She's going to ask you for some smokes and then will [run up] a huge tab. The second you pull up she'll [jump out] and run up to her apartment [without so much as a] thank you." ❋ Brett Burkhardt (2008)

- I think she doesn’t [love me] anymore - Divert to your balls bro, there are lots of [hot girls] out there that want to be with [a guy like you] ❋ Guybrush299 (2018)

My brother [pulled out all the stops] when he did his usual [dirt divert] [move on] Mom ❋ It's Barnett Again (2019)

Behind my [wheels] there is a rock [diverter] to prevent [stones] being cast upon anothers vehicle. ❋ Jimi Smitts (2018)

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