N. change, alteration,
mutation,
permutation, variation, modification,
modulation,
inflexion,
mood,
qualification,
innovation,
metastasis,
deviation, turn, evolution, revolution,
diversion, break, transformation,
transfiguration,
metamorphosis,
transmutation,
deoxidization,
transubstantiation, mutagenesis,
transanimation,
transmigration, metempsychosis|,
avatar,
alterative, conversion, revolution inversion, displacement,
transference,
changeableness,
tergiversation V. change, alter, vary, wax and wane,
modulate,
diversify,
qualify, tamper with, turn,
shift,
veer,
tack,
chop,
shuffle,
swerve,
warp,
deviate, turn aside,
evert,
intervert, pass to, take a turn, turn the corner,
resume, work a change,
modify,
vamp,
superinduce,
transform,
transfigure,
transmute,
transmogrify,
transume,
metamorphose, ring the changes,
innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards, give a turn to, give a color to, influence, turn the scale, shift the scene, turn over a new leaf, recast, reverse,
disturb, convert into
Adv. mutatis mutandis
Int. quantum mutatus, phr, "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream", nous avons change tout cela, tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis, non sum qualis eram, casaque tourner, corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur, in statu quo ante bellum, "still ending and beginning still", vox audita perit littera scripta manet
N. curvature,
curvity,
curvation, incurvature, incurvity|,
incurvation, bend,
flexure,
flexion,
flection, conflexure|,
crook, hook, bought, bending,
deflection,
deflexion,
inflection,
inflexion,
concameration,
arcuation, devexity|, turn,
deviation,
detour,
sweep,
curl,
curling,
bough,
recurvity,
recurvation,
sinuosity,
kink,
carve, arc, arch,
arcade,
vault, bow,
crescent,
half-moon,
lunule,
horseshoe,
loop, crane neck,
parabola,
hyperbola,
helix, spiral,
catenary,
festoon,
conchoid,
cardioid,
caustic,
tracery, arched ceiling, arched roof,
bay window, bow window, sine curve,
spline, spline curve, spline function,
obliquity V. be curved, curve,
sweep,
sway,
swag,
sag,
deviate,
curl, turn, reenter, render curved,
flex, bend, curve,
incurvate,
inflect,
deflect,
scatter, refract (light) 420,
crook, turn, round, arch,
arcuate, arch over,
concamerate, bow,
curl, recurve,
frizzle,
rotundity,
convexity Adj. curved,
curviform,
curvilineal,
curvilinear, devex|,
devious, recurved,
recurvous,
crump, bowed,
vaulted, hooked,
falciform,
falcated,
semicircular,
crescentic,
sinusoid,
parabolic,
paraboloid,
luniform,
lunular,
semilunar,
conchoidal,
helical, double helical, spiral,
kinky,
cordiform,
cordated,
cardioid, heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped, kidney- shaped,
reniform,
lentiform,
lenticular,
bow-legged, oblique, circular, aduncated, arclike,
arcuate, arched,
beaked,
bicorn, bicornuous, bicornute,
clypeate,
clypeiform,
cymbiform, embowed, galeiform,
hamate,
hamiform,
hamous, hooked,
linguiform,
lingulate, lobiform,
lunate,
navicular,
peltate,
remiform, rhamphoid,
rostrate, rostriferous, rostroid,
scutate,
scaphoid, uncate,
unguiculate,
unguiform N. deviation,
swerving, obliquation|,
warp, refraction,
flection,
flexion,
sweep,
deflection,
deflexure, declination,
diversion,
digression, depart from,
aberration,
divergence,
zigzag,
detour,
divagation, wandering,
vagrancy,
evagation, bypaths and crooked ways,
byroad,
sidling, knight's move at chess
V. alter one's course,
deviate, depart from, turn,
trend, bend, curve,
swerve,
heel, bear off,
gybe, wear,
intervert,
deflect,
divert, divert from its course, put on a new scent,
shift,
shunt, draw aside,
crook,
warp,
stray,
straggle,
sidle,
diverge, tralineate|,
digress,
wander, wind, twist,
meander,
veer,
tack, divagate, sidetrack, turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from, wheel, steer clear of,
ramble,
rove, drift, go astray, go adrift,
yaw,
dodge, step aside, ease off, make way for,
shy, fly off at a tangent, glance off, wheel about, face about, turn to the right about, face to the right about,
waddle, go out of one's way, lose one's way
Adj. deviating,
aberrant,
errant,
excursive,
discursive,
devious,
desultory, loose,
rambling,
stray,
erratic,
vagrant, undirected,
circuitous, indirect,
zigzag, crab-like
Adv. astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways,
circuitously, obliquely,
sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard
V. diverge,
divaricate,
radiate,
ramify, branch off, glance off, file off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, spread,
scatter,
disperse,
deviate, part
