(n.) A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to a severe disorganization of the inner optic chiasm irreC mutants display a subtle phenotype in the outer optic chiasm, in which some bundles of axons that leave the posterior equatorial part of the lamina on their way to the anterior medulla take a long detour before eventually finding their specific targets in the medulla neuropile.
(2) In Skipton, 20-year-old Alice Keirle had taken a 90-minute detour to avoid road closures and get to her waitressing job at the Boathouse Cafe.
(3) There is a brief compensatory detour into the wonders Blair worked in Northern Ireland, but the essential verdict remains withering.
(4) The most famous is Borough Market (the pioneer but has the tendency to bankrupt) but Maltby Street (weekends only) in Bermondsey and Lower Marsh Street (weekdays) in Waterloo are worth a detour.
(5) We previously reported that a large proportion of these neurones modulate during execution of a detour reaching task in which the movement phase was separated in time from the phase in which the monkey received a visual cue for the movement required to retrieve a food reward.
(6) This was seen as a slightly touristy and embarrassing thing to do, so my then (native) boyfriend left me to it and made a detour to the newly opened McDonald’s to buy multiple “cheeseburgery” (another word that cheered me greatly) to take on the 10-hour train journey back to St Petersburg, so that people at home could try this great delicacy.
(7) The present results affirm that this new detour maze provides a viable approach for assessing cognitive performance in a within-subject design and thereby offers new possibilities for testing various aspects of cognitive processing, particularly for aged rodent models, in a complex aversive situation.
(8) After many detours in the search for the basic mechanism of hypertension, evidence now seems to corroborate the earliest concept that developed in the 1800's, namely, that hypertension almost always results from a tendency of the kidneys to retain water and salt.
(9) Moreover, he overlooks in his exclusive 'calculatory valuation' that his argue of 'detour production' on the one hand violates the public claim on traffic security and on the other hand the constitutional claim of the alcohol conspicious drivers on proportion of national sanctions and measures.
(10) I've detoured well over 100 miles on drives to eat there.
(11) The test battery included both appetitively (three distinct climbing detour problems) and aversively (visual discrimination, three cul maze, and an inclined plane discrimination) motivated learning tasks.
(12) Songkick's Detour program has done something similar for some time though, not actually taking money but accepting pledges from fans who campaign for bands to come to their towns, who pay up once the pledge target has been met.
(13) To this day, she will take a detour around the Elysée when travelling in central Paris.
(14) Authorities believe the Boeing 777 detoured to the remote southern Indian Ocean and then plunged into the water.
(15) It's a huge, ugly thing to cross, and we make the journey longer by doing a 30-minute detour to use the loo at a cafe, the Gran Sometta, which turns out to be closed.
(16) If you like, detour slightly east to the solitary tree at the high point on Cleeve Common, which peaks nearby at a modest 330m (although locals say it's the highest point between here and the Urals).
(17) They made more errors during the sessions, specifically on the trials that were related to cognitive complexity, such as attempting to reach directly towards the reward through the transparent side of the box (a barrier reach), instead of reaching around it (detour) into the open side, as well as other awkward, perseverative or delayed reaches.
(18) The behavior of 12 adult ring doves [a small-brained species of Columbidae] was compared with that of 12 adult pigeons [a large-brained species of Columbidae] in a detour problem to see if Rensch's hypothesis of increased brain size being correlated with increased capability can be extended to a perceptual problem-solving task.
(19) They also showed an unwillingness to make detours when planning their own routes, even where the direct route was manifestly dangerous.
(20) Nothing, however, excuses Wright using the phrase "my anus" when the hand cream-as-face cream chat takes a detour into haemorrhoid cream territory.
Detur
Definition:
(n.) A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize.