2. Verb. (third-person singular of detour) ¹
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Definition of Detours
1. detour [v] - See also: detour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detours
Literary usage of Detours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Has the North Pole Been Discovered?: An Analytical and Synthetical Review of by Thomas F. Hall (1917)
"detours plus Drift, ie the Deviation from a straight line is the ROUTE MILES,
... detours are caused by leads, (open water spaces in the polar ice pack) ice ..."
2. Ansley J. Coale: An Autobiography by Ansley J. Coale (2000)
"... VII INTELLECTUAL detours 1947- 1953 IN THE FALL OF 19471 was appointed an
assistant professor in economics at Princeton. For several ensuing years my ..."
3. New York and Its Environs, by Gustav Kobbé (1891)
"detours FROM CITY HALL PARK. From City Hall Park several interesting detours can
be made. On Frankfort street the huge arches upon which the New York ..."
4. Practical Surveying and Elementary Geodesy: Including Land Surveying by Henry Adams (1913)
"Gaps and detours.—The simplest case of obstruction to the chain line is a pond,
or bend in a brook or river, or a piece of marshy ground, or a gravel pit or ..."
5. What We Did in Australia: Being the Practical Experience of Three Clerks in by George Butler Earp (1853)
"We, however, travelled upwards of 140 miles, having make so many detours in order
to avoid bad places ia roads. ..."
6. A Narrative of Travel and Sport in Burmah, Siam and the Malay Peninsula by John Bradley, John A. Lawson (1876)
"Impenetrable forests compel us to make detours.—Change in the character of the
country.—Plains covered with beautiful flowers.—Average distance an ox can ..."
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