(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.
Tour
Definition:
(n.) A tower.
(v. t.) A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England.
(v. t.) A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies.
(v. t.) anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.
(v. i.) To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(2) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
(3) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
(4) Tracks were almost exclusively written on tour, including this jolting number, with an additional four tracks recorded in the studio.
(5) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
(6) The wives and girlfriends who were originally invited to accompany their playing partners on the World Cup tour have had their invitations formally rescinded.
(7) That is why he once considered a move to the Foreign Office, and why he will be touring Europe’s capitals over the coming months, starting with Paris this week.
(8) Groups on both sides have published blog posts, and some offer tours of the area and its history.
(9) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
(10) Findings and impressions of a member of a British medical support group who toured the health services in newly independent Mozambique in September 1975.
(11) I encourage you to visit your local care home on Friday to take part in the activities, from dance classes to tours of care homes.
(12) Sources said that when Mitchell toured the Commons tea rooms on Wednesday and Thursday, he was taken aback by the opposition to him staying put, despite Cameron's support.
(13) The US had said a Kenyatta win would have "consequences" and, when president Barack Obama undertook on a tour of Africa in June and July, he did not visit his ancestral home.
(14) But this no-nonsense venue, just 10km but a world away from parliament, is the latest stop in a national pro-renewables tour that is making the Abbott government decidedly uncomfortable.
(15) Sera collected in winter contain significantly (p less than 0.05) higher concentrations of the first tour--14.9, 13.4, 9k9, and 7.5%, respectively--than do sera collected in summer; thyrotropin concentrations are similar in samples collected during winter and summer (p greater than 0.05).
(17) Morrissey has cancelled his entire US tour, citing a respiratory infection and 'acute fever ' he claims he caught from his support act, Kristeen Young.
(18) We haven’t toured that much, for many different reasons.
(19) Here's a tribute from the historic Apollo theater in Harlem, New York City: Touré (@Toure) Photo: The Apollo Theater in Harlem remembers Nelson Mandela.
(20) On The Go (+44 (0)20 7371 1113, onthegotours.com ) offers five days in Shanghai with a day tour from £349pp (excl.