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veering 音標拼音: [v'ɪrɪŋ] 順轉 順轉 veering n 1: the act of turning aside suddenly [ synonym: { swerve}, { swerving}, { veering}] Veer \ Veer\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Veered}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Veering}.] [ F. virer ( cf. Sp. virar, birar), LL. virare; perhaps fr. L. vibrare to brandish, vibrate ( cf. { Vibrate}); or cf. L. viriae armlets, bracelets, viriola a little bracelet ( cf. { Ferrule}). Cf. { Environ}.] To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north. " His veering gait." -- Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster] And as he leads, the following navy veers. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] an ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] { To veer and haul} ( Naut.), to vary the course or direction; -- said of the wind, which veers aft and hauls forward. The wind is also said to veer when it shifts with the sun. [ 1913 Webster]
Veering \ Veer" ing\, a. Shifting. -- { Veer" ing* ly}, adv. [ 1913 Webster] 83 Moby Thesaurus words for " veering": aberrant, aberrative, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, choppy, circuitous, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, disconnected, discontinuous, discursive, eccentric, errant, erratic, excursive, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, guttering, halting, herky- jerky, heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, indirect, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, jerky, labyrinthine, lurching, mazy, meandering, nonuniform, out- of- the- way, patchy, planetary, rambling, rough, roving, scrappy, serpentine, shifting, snaky, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, stray, swerving, turning, twisting, uncertain, undirected, unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, vagrant, variable, wandering, wavering, winding, wobbling, wobbly, zigzag
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