(v. i.) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
(v. i.) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
(n.) Digression.
Example Sentences:
(1) How World of Warcraft train future soldiers One odder digression sees the two discussing whether or not MMORPGs, video games like World of Warcraft, are evil.
(2) Bilaterals in summit seasons can be stiff exchanges, where digressions can carry risks: not enough said, too much said.
(3) Discrepancies increase when moderate digressions from the adopted implant system rules are allowed, such as could commonly occur clinically.
(4) Her only digression from a rather set, humdrum routine came when in 1975 she divorced her husband and then two years later remarried him.
(5) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
(6) Despite that initial exposure to sports commentary, Healey took a digression into the music industry in the early 90s, as a tour manager for various "shoegazing" bands, before a chance break landed him in the US as an alt rock DJ and ultimately as the voice of New England Revolution, before ESPN came calling.
(7) The PPI is but the ratio G1 cells to total 2C cells (or G2 to 4C cells, when cells also digress from the post-replicative stage of the cycle).
(8) That is why its tempo is so explicit with slowness, syncopated with digression.
(9) The paper digresses on events leading to anachronistic acquisition of immortal growth by normally dependent cells as well as on the time and path dependent incidence of cancer, in vivo.
(10) Comprehensive evaluation of work conditions of workers of different occupational groups (bulldozer, excavator and boring machine operators, embroideresses) helped create a new parameter of occupation harmfulness evaluation: mean arithmetic value and root-mean-square digression.
(11) Eleven studies were found that did not contain obvious digressions from several methodologic assessment criteria (adapted from the McMaster guidelines for the evaluation of clinical trials).
(12) But I digress in precisely the sort of way you would expect from someone shaped by a lifetime's exposure to Attenborough programmes.
(13) Since his meander to China becomes a superb digression into the Anglo-Chinese opium wars, perhaps it doesn't matter that he made the train thing up.
(14) Hugo's form, predicated on length, on digression and detail, is a deliberate accretion of overlapping examples: his scenes are all variations on the same theme.
(15) We only go along with the book's violence because there are the safety valves of unreliability and chapter-long digressions about Whitney Houston .
(16) In vitro comparisons indicated that although neither instrument accurately recorded intraocular pressure (IOP), compared with manometric measurements, results of both instruments indicated linear digression from manometric IOP values that could readily be corrected, thereby accurately estimating IOP in horses.
(17) After a brief digression on the etiopathogenesis of carbon monoxide poisoning, the paper underlines the importance of the timely use of hyperbaric oxygen treatment not only to impede the immediate effects of CO, but also to reduce the incidence of neurological complications.
(18) In Sebald, Norfolk is never the focus but rather the beginning of a digression.
(19) diGRESS-tiGRESS, in which digress is a real word, and DIgress-Tigress, in which tigress is a real word).
(20) I speak from the brain but I also speak from the heart,” he said, rambling like a rich know-it-all uncle – “I’m bringing back the jobs from China!” – with brief digressions into self-pity: “Macy’s was very disloyal to me.
Sidetrack
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We're in danger of being sidetracked by a simplistic debate that suggests an emphasis on people and their responsibility somehow blames individuals and ignores the real social determinants of health and disease.
(2) The problem starts at school, and girls very quickly get sidetracked out of maths and physics.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Many respondents felt more girls needed to study Stem subjects at younger ages.
(3) Wants to avoid getting sidetracked by applications.
(4) One expert goes so far as warning , "Cleavage could sidetrack a legal career".
(5) Learning about the super-clarity that is needed on stage to bring about thatslight sidetracking of reality.
(6) As he lays out his plan, you are totally with him, even when it gets sidetracked a bit by his big buddy Groot.
(7) But the Syrian “revolution” was quickly and predictably sidetracked and deformed by the much more powerful Islamists.
(8) Other women who have run their states laughed wryly at similar memories of enduring sexist insults and being obliged to sidetrack their election campaigns to deal with them.
(9) So from now on, my focus will be on working with them, face-to-face, for the whole day rather than getting sidetracked with emails, phone calls, meetings or proposals.
(10) And it was refreshing to be able to spend all the time on that and not be sidetracked by special effects and spectacle, which a lot of other films I've done have been.
(11) Asked about this Pulis said: "To say he was doing it as a sidetrack to influence the referee, you've said it.
(12) Environment groups urged countries to renew their pledges under the Kyoto treaty and not be sidetracked by promises of a better deal.
(13) Soon, dozens of cases were sidetracked by endless technical argument.
(14) I’m all for important discussions on the state of authorship and recognition for black artists in pop – but as Swift’s tweet showed, couching those analyses in something as pointless as the VMAs soon sidetracks the conversation.
(15) Yes, I want to ask a question.” Scolari was promptly sidetracked by the extra question that is invariably jammed in from somebody in the room.
(16) Recent debates about redress mechanisms for medical accident victims have been sidetracked by fears of an American-style medical malpractice crisis.
(17) In Britain we have simply allowed ourselves to be sidetracked by our governing elite's military adventures and the bread and circuses of royal occasions and sporting festivals.
(18) Lord knows we had the tunes but the times that we did it when we should have been great was the first year we headlined it and we got sidetracked.
(19) Nursing organizations formed coalitions, held meetings, published position statements, and mounted campaigns to sidetrack the AMA plans.
(20) 'It was refreshing to be able to spend all the time on my character in Rush and not be sidetracked by special effects and spectacle' With Daniel Bruhl in Rush.