Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing deflection or deviation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing deflection.
- adjective forces that cause a body to deviate from its course.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective capable of causing
deflection .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave)
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Examples
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Sister Schreck's deflective technique is one my four-year-old uses on a regular basis: Why am I in trouble for hitting my sister?
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As well as learning to laugh at myself, it taught me to use humour as a deflective device when challenged, and this made growing up a whole lot easier.
Family life 2011
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He is a bitter cocktail of amoral thug and deflective coward ... with a shot of self righteous bully — for that extra bit of burn on the way down to the pit of America's soul.
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Sister Schreck's deflective technique is one my four-year-old uses on a regular basis: Why am I in trouble for hitting my sister?
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He is a bitter cocktail of amoral thug and deflective coward ... with a shot of self righteous bully — for that extra bit of burn on the way down to the pit of America's soul.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Raccoon Island, one of the most densely populated islands with birds in the entire state was left with one layer of deflective inner harbor type boom, which was completely useless against the waves and the wind from a storm in early July.
Georgianne Nienaber: Flyover at the Macondo Wellhead: Damage Control at "The Source" 2010
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Raccoon Island, one of the most densely populated islands with birds in the entire state was left with one layer of deflective inner harbor type boom, which was completely useless against the waves and the wind from a storm in early July.
Georgianne Nienaber: Flyover at the Macondo Wellhead: Damage Control at "The Source" 2010
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Carrick videoed hundreds of feet of oiled orange deflective boom that was piled on breakwaters, unattended, and birds were perching in the mess.
Georgianne Nienaber: Flyover at the Macondo Wellhead: Damage Control at "The Source" 2010
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Carrick videoed hundreds of feet of oiled orange deflective boom that was piled on breakwaters, unattended, and birds were perching in the mess.
Georgianne Nienaber: Flyover at the Macondo Wellhead: Damage Control at "The Source" 2010
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Not pertinent, unless for an oft-used deflective segue into 'Clinton vs Bush', which is O/T.
Obama Spokesman Denies Michelle's Speech Was Attack On Hillary 2009
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