verb
definition
To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
verb
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To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
example
The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
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(of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).
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(of the wind) To shift aft.
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To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
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To turn.
Examples of veered in a Sentence
You fell, and I tried to catch you, but then you kind of veered to one side and I grabbed your arm but then you --
The natural skeptic in me veered on the side of caution.
From 1204 onwards, however, fortune again veered round, and Philips prospects began to improve.
Canada also veered sharply to the right during the eighties.
The artistic license taken in the series is similar to that of True Blood which has veered from the Sookie Stackhouse novels upon which it is based.
Where Talking Heads sometimes veered away from British New Wave style, Tom Tom Club embraced it.
Enterprise purposefully veered from many traditional Star Trek themes in an attempt to draw a wider audience.
But these outbursts of energy were too spasmodic, and popular opinion repeatedly veered back in favour of the peace-party.
While in India the conception of the asura had veered more and more towards the dreadful and the dreaded, Zoroaster elevated it again - at the cost, indeed, of the daivas (daevas), whom he degraded to the rank of malicious powers and devils.
For example, a passenger aircraft arriving at Heathrow airport veered off the runway onto the grass.
One recent accident occured when a car veered off the road and crashed into a lorry parked in a layby.
The 36-year-old had been driving a jet-powered Vampire dragster when it veered off the track at Elvington airfield, near York, in September.
By the time doll houses entered the United States, the trend veered to reproductions of American housing with custom furnishings and lots of details.
At the court a limited recognition might be given, as fashion veered, to the values prevalent in the Hellenistic world.
But as 0111vier approximated to the government standpoint, Picard, one of the members of the group known as Les Cinq, veered more to the left.
After a short and frantic chase, one trail veered off to the right and the other continued straight ahead.
Emerging from the Dynasty, I followed the doorman's advice and veered off the fume-filled traffic-clogged main street around a high-rise condominium.
Why she should have suddenly veered from her course will probably never be known.
Firstly, I have recently veered away from likening the sexuality debate to the male/female debate.
But Doria now veered round to the French or popular faction and entered the service of King Francis I., who made him captain-general; in 1524 he relieved Marseilles, which was besieged by the Imperialists, and helped to place his native city once more under French domination.
In spite of her birth and family she was at first favourably inclined to Spain, disapproved of her daughter Elizabeth's marriage with the elector palatine, and supported the Spanish marriages for her sons, but subsequently veered round towards France.
Elected to the Municipal Council of Paris in 1879, he declared in favour of communal autonomy and joined with Henri Rochefort in demanding the erection of a monument to the Communards; but after his election to the Chamber of Deputies for the 5th arrondissement of Paris in 1881 he gradually veered from the extreme Radical party to the Republican Union, and identified himself with the cause of colonial expansion.
The government therefore veered round towards the German Liberals; some of the ministers most obnoxious to the Germans resigned, and their places were taken by Germans.
Immediately afterwards, owing to the quarrel about the Holy Places which arose in the east of Europe, public opinion suddenly veered round, and all the suspicion and hatred which had been directed against the emperor of the French were diverted from him to the emperor of Russia.
By one of those waves of popular feeling to which the Japanese people are peculiarly liable, the nation which had supported him up to a certain point suddenly veered round and opposed him with heated violence.