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Veering   /vˈɪrɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Veer  v. t.  To direct to a different course; to turn; to wear; as, to veer, or wear, a vessel.
To veer and haul (Naut.), to pull tight and slacken alternately.
To veer away or To veer out (Naut.), to let out; to slacken and let run; to pay out; as, to veer away the cable; to veer out a rope.



Veer  v. i.  (past & past part. veered; pres. part. veering)  To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north. "His veering gait." "And as he leads, the following navy veers." "an ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about."
To veer and haul (Naut.), to vary the course or direction; said of the wind, which veers aft and hauls forward. The wind is also said to veer when it shifts with the sun.



adjective
Veering  adj.  Shifting.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Veering" Quotes from Famous Books



... be reminded that a paradox is not necessarily true. In fact, this particular paradox is seen to be sustained by a combination of slipshod reasoning and moral prejudice. The growing opinion of economic students is veering round to register in theory the firm empirical judgment from which the business world has never swerved, that a high rate of consumption is the surest guarantee of progressive trade. The surest support of the "economy of high wages" is the conviction ...
— The Evolution of Modern Capitalism - A Study of Machine Production • John Atkinson Hobson

... numbers, Jealousy, to nought were fixed: Sad proof of thy distressful state! Of differing themes the veering song was mixed; And now it courted Love, ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick

... stood beside the helm With his pipe in his mouth, And watched how the veering flaw did blow The smoke now West, ...
— The Song of Hiawatha - An Epic Poem • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... the English climate, sparkling one day with the dew-drop-on-the-grass-freshness of an early summer morning, to hang the next as passing heavy on the hand as the November fog upon the new hat brim; veering within twelve hours to the sharpness of the East wind, which braces skin and temper to cracking point, and to make up for it all, for one whole hour in the twenty-four, resembling the exquisite moment of the June morning, in which you find the first half-open rose ...
— Desert Love • Joan Conquest

... Durant, already veering toward scepticism, had been about to plunge into the depths of bottomless negation when the Colonel rose punctually at ...
— The Return of the Prodigal • May Sinclair


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