DIVERGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diverge mean? 

• DIVERGE (verb)
  The verb DIVERGE has 4 senses:

1. move or draw apart

2. have no limits as a mathematical series

3. extend in a different direction

4. be at variance with; be out of line with

  Familiarity information: DIVERGE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVERGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they diverge    ... he / she / it diverges   
Past simple: diverged   
Past participle: diverged   
-ing form: diverging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move or draw apart

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The two paths diverge here

Hypernyms (to "diverge" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diverge"):

branch; fork; furcate; ramify; separate (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Antonym:

converge (move or draw together at a certain location)

Derivation:

divergence; divergency (the act of moving away in different direction from a common point)

divergent (tending to move apart in different directions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Have no limits as a mathematical series

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "diverge" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Antonym:

converge (be adjacent or come together)

converge (approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit)

Derivation:

divergence; divergency (an infinite series that has no limit)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Extend in a different direction

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

Their interests diverged

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diverge"):

divaricate (branch off)

bifurcate (split or divide into two)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Antonym:

converge (be adjacent or come together)

Derivation:

divergency (the act of moving away in different direction from a common point)

divergent (tending to move apart in different directions)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be at variance with; be out of line with

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

depart; deviate; diverge; vary

Hypernyms (to "diverge" is one way to...):

differ (be different)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "diverge"):

aberrate (diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration)

aberrate (diverge from the expected)

belie; contradict; negate (be in contradiction with)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

divergence (a variation that deviates from the standard or norm)

divergent (diverging from another or from a standard)

 Context examples 

Thus they slowly diverged toward the west, drawing farther away from the remainder of the boats in their line.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

With 56% identity to Patched-1, mouse Patched-2 diverges in the hydrophilic region between transmembrane domains 6 and 7 and in a region of the intracellular C terminus.

(Patched Homolog 2, NCI Thesaurus)

A form of ocular misalignment where the visual axes diverge inappropriately.

(Divergent Strabismus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An artery formed by the union of the two vertebral arteries at the posterior border of the pons then diverges at the anterior border forming the two superior and two posterior cerebral arteries.

(Basilar Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

The strain responsible for this outbreak appeared to diverge as early as 2004 from one found in Central Africa, indicating movement from Central to West Africa over the span of a decade.

(Genetics of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, NIH)

Mr. Spenlow and I falling into this conversation, prolonged it and our saunter to and fro, until we diverged into general topics.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Continuing then to pursue his walk in silence, I ventured to recall him to the point whence he had abruptly diverged—"Did you leave the balcony, sir," I asked, "when Mdlle. Varens entered?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The consensus view of human history is that the ancestors of present-day humans diverged from the ancestors of extinct Neanderthal and Denisovan groups around 500,000-700,000 years ago, before the emergence of ‘modern’ humans in Africa in the last few hundred thousand years.

(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)