digression

departure, decession, decampment; embarkation; outset, start; removal; exit (egress); exodus, hejira, flight., leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen, sayonara, dosvidanya, ciao, aloha, hasta la vista; stirrup cup; valedictorian., starting point, starting post; point of departure, point of embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation; port of embarkation.

depart; go away; take one's departure, set out; set off, march off, put off, start off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off, take oneself off; start, issue, march out, debouch; go forth, sally forth; sally, set forward; be gone; hail from., leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose [U.S.]; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail, put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get underway, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say goodbye, bid goodbye; disappear; abscond (avoid); entrain; inspan.

departing; valedictory; outward bound.

whence, hence, thence; with a foot in the stirrup; on the wing, on the move.

deviation; swerving; obliquation, warp, refraction; flection, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure; declination., diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence; zigzag; detour (circuit); divagation., [Desultory motion] wandering; vagrancy, evagation; bypaths and crooked ways; byroad., [Motion sideways, oblique motion] sidling; knight's move at chess.

alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe, wear., intervert; deflect; divert, divert from its course; put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp., stray, straggle; sidle; diverge; tralineate; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy., fly off at a tangent; glance off; wheel about, face about; turn to the right about, face to the right about; waddle (oscillate); go out of one's way (perform a circuit) [more]; lose one's way.

deviating; aberrant, errant; excursive, discursive; devious, desultory, loose; rambling; stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, curcuitous, indirect, zigzag; crab-like.

astray from, round about, wide of the mark; to the right about; all manner of ways; circuitously., obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.

difference; variance, variation, variety; diversity, dissimilarity; disagreement; disparity (inequality); distinction, contradistinction; alteration., modification, permutation, moods and tenses., nice distinction, fine distinction, delicate distinction, subtle distinction; shade of difference, nuance; discrimination. [more]; differentia., different thing, something else, apple off another tree, another pair of shoes; horse of a different color; this that or the other.

be different; differ, vary, ablude, mismatch, contrast; divaricate; differ toto coelo, differ longo intervallo., vary, modify (change)., discriminate.

differing; different, diverse, heterogeneous, multifarious, polyglot; distinguishable, dissimilar; varied, modified; diversified, various, divers, all manner of, all kinds of; variform; daedal., other, another, not the same; unequal; unmatched; widely apart, poles apart, distinctive, characteristic; discriminative; distinguishing.

differently.

divergence, divergency; divarication, ramification, forking; radiation; separation (disjunction); dispersion; deviation; aberration.

diverge, divaricate, radiate; ramify; branch off, glance off, file off; fly off, fly off at a tangent; spread, scatter, disperse; deviate; part (separate).

diverging; divergent, radiant, centrifugal; aberrant.