Veer


verb (used without object)
1.
to change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination, etc., to another:
The speaker kept veering from his main topic. The car veered off the road.
2.

to change direction clockwise (opposed to back1 (def 30.)).
Nautical. to shift to a direction more nearly astern (opposed to haul (def 8c.)).

verb (used with object)
3.
to alter the direction or course of; turn.
4.
Nautical. to turn (a vessel) away from the wind; wear.
noun
5.
a change of direction, position, course, etc.:
a sudden veer in a different direction.
verb (used with object), Nautical.
1.
to slacken or let out:
to veer chain.
adjective
1.
shaped like the letter V: a vee neckline.
noun
2.
anything shaped like or suggesting a V .
verb
1.
to alter direction (of); swing around
2.
(intransitive) to change from one position, opinion, etc, to another
3.
(intransitive)

(of the wind) to change direction clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anticlockwise in the southern
(nautical) to blow from a direction nearer the stern Compare haul (sense 5)

4.
(nautical) to steer (a vessel) off the wind
noun
5.
a change of course or direction
verb
1.
(transitive; often foll by out or away) (nautical) to slacken or pay out (cable or chain)
VEE
Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis

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