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divert
1、 To turn from one purpose or course to another.
2、 To give pleasure to by distracting from burdens or distress.
🌱The farmers had successfully diverted some of the river's water to irrigate their crops during the drought. 🌳The Roman circus was used to provide diversion for its citizens—and sometimes to divert their attention from the government's failings as well. The diversion was often in the form of a fight—men pitted against lions, bears, or each other—and the audience was sure to see blood and death. A diverting evening these days might instead include watching the same kind of mayhem on a movie screen. converter A device that changes something （such as radio signals, radio frequencies, or data） from one form to another.
🌱She was so indifferent to television that she hadn't even bought a converter, and her old TV sat there useless until she finally lugged it down to the recycling center. 🌳Converters come in many forms. Travelers to foreign countries who bring along their electric razors or hair dryers always pack a small electric converter, which can change direct current to alternating current or vice versa. In 2009 millions of Americans bought digital-analog converters, small box-shaped devices that change the new broadcast digital signal to the analog signal that older TV sets were made to receive. A catalytic converter is the pollution-control device attached to your car's exhaust system that converts pollutants such as carbon monoxide into harmless form. avert 1、 To turn （your eyes or gaze） away or aside.
2、 To avoid or prevent.
🌱General Camacho's announcement of lower food prices averted an immediate worker's revolt. 🌳Sensitive people avert their eyes from gory accidents and scenes of disaster. But the accident or disaster might itself have been averted if someone had been alert enough. Negotiators may avert a strike by all-night talks. In the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, it seemed that nuclear catastrophe was barely averted. Aversion means "dislike or disgust"—that is, your feeling about something you can't stand to look at. revert 1、 To go back or return （to an earlier state, condition, situation, etc.）.
2、 To be given back to （a former owner）.
🌱Control of the Panama Canal Zone, first acquired by the U.S. in 1903, reverted to the local government in 1999. 🌳Since the prefix re- often means "back" （See RE-,） the basic meaning of revert is "turn back." Revert and reversion often show up in legal documents, since property is often given to another person on the condition that it will revert to the original owner at some future date or when something happens （usually the death of the second person. In nonlegal uses, the word tends to show up in negative contexts. Many reformed drinkers, for example, eventually revert to their old ways, and most people revert to smoking at least once or twice before succeeding in quitting for good.
2、 To give pleasure to by distracting from burdens or distress.
🌱The farmers had successfully diverted some of the river's water to irrigate their crops during the drought. 🌳The Roman circus was used to provide diversion for its citizens—and sometimes to divert their attention from the government's failings as well. The diversion was often in the form of a fight—men pitted against lions, bears, or each other—and the audience was sure to see blood and death. A diverting evening these days might instead include watching the same kind of mayhem on a movie screen. converter A device that changes something （such as radio signals, radio frequencies, or data） from one form to another.
🌱She was so indifferent to television that she hadn't even bought a converter, and her old TV sat there useless until she finally lugged it down to the recycling center. 🌳Converters come in many forms. Travelers to foreign countries who bring along their electric razors or hair dryers always pack a small electric converter, which can change direct current to alternating current or vice versa. In 2009 millions of Americans bought digital-analog converters, small box-shaped devices that change the new broadcast digital signal to the analog signal that older TV sets were made to receive. A catalytic converter is the pollution-control device attached to your car's exhaust system that converts pollutants such as carbon monoxide into harmless form. avert 1、 To turn （your eyes or gaze） away or aside.
2、 To avoid or prevent.
🌱General Camacho's announcement of lower food prices averted an immediate worker's revolt. 🌳Sensitive people avert their eyes from gory accidents and scenes of disaster. But the accident or disaster might itself have been averted if someone had been alert enough. Negotiators may avert a strike by all-night talks. In the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, it seemed that nuclear catastrophe was barely averted. Aversion means "dislike or disgust"—that is, your feeling about something you can't stand to look at. revert 1、 To go back or return （to an earlier state, condition, situation, etc.）.
2、 To be given back to （a former owner）.
🌱Control of the Panama Canal Zone, first acquired by the U.S. in 1903, reverted to the local government in 1999. 🌳Since the prefix re- often means "back" （See RE-,） the basic meaning of revert is "turn back." Revert and reversion often show up in legal documents, since property is often given to another person on the condition that it will revert to the original owner at some future date or when something happens （usually the death of the second person. In nonlegal uses, the word tends to show up in negative contexts. Many reformed drinkers, for example, eventually revert to their old ways, and most people revert to smoking at least once or twice before succeeding in quitting for good.
VERT comes from the Latin verb vertere, meaning "to turn" or "to turn around." Vertigo is the dizziness that makes it seem as if everything is turning around you. And an advertisement turns your attention to a product or service.🌸