To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course.
To turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor.
To turn aside; to digress.
(1) To turn a thing aside from a certain direction. (2) To distract the attention of someone or something. (3) To amuse or entertain.
vt. to turn (a person or thing) aside from a course, direction, etc. into another; deflect
alter the course of water. In some places, rivers have been made to flow into man-made channels, to divert the river away from (or towards) something, or into lakes.
turn aside; turn away from
send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one
occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; "The play amused the ladies"
to direct a flow away from its natural course
To remove water from its natural course or location, or impound water in its natural course or location, by means of a ditch, canal, flume, reservoir, bypass, pipeline, conduit, well, pump, or other structure or device.