manoeuvre Definition
ma·noeu·vre (mə no̵̅o̅′vər, -nyo̵̅o̅′-)
noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb -·vred, -·vring
Chiefly Brit. maneuver
manoeuvre Usage Examples
Followed by a transitive particle
around: Always give yourself enough room to maneuver around the car in front without the need to reverse.
Object
- wheelchair: There is also plenty of room to maneuver wheelchairs within the houses.
- boat: To maneuver the boat in a lock requires at least two people.
- aircraft: Our aircraft was causing difficulties in maneuvering production aircraft.
Converse of object
- overtake: Sir Richard smiled at the overtaking maneuvers, 1902 style.
- flank: Flanking maneuvers are even more risky, since there's no telling which route your team-mates will take.
- execute: An example of an aircraft executing a pure rolling maneuver illustrates the procedure.
- perform: There are no individuals in a team, everyone performs the maneuver in exactly the same time, in exactly the same way.
- brake: Thinking you've gone into some emergency braking maneuver, berk should drop back.
- reverse: The examiner will choose one reversing maneuver, either into a parking bay or a side road.
Adjective modifier
- aerobatic: To a rousing musical accompaniment the trumpets, three at one point, performed complex aerobatic maneuvers in time to the music.
- evasive: Consequently, taking heavy damage with no idea where the attack is coming from ensures evasive maneuvers become guess work which produces mixed results.
- cynical: The collapse of the former Yugoslavia has been aided and abetted by the various Western powers using incredibly cynical maneuvers.
- daring: In a daring night maneuver, the bulk of the English army crossed the Brox Burn and reformed their lines on the other side.
- bureaucratic: The bureaucratic maneuvers of the Socialist Workers Party leadership would have made Joe Stalin proud.
Noun used with modifier
- avoidance: Without warning a ship popped out of hyperspace in front of us forcing Kohlarn to make an avoidance maneuver.
- collision: The collision avoidance maneuver was added to the Second EC Driving License Directive retrospectively as an amendment through technical progress late in 2000.
- driving: Despite the arcade nature of the game, there isn't that much opportunity for stunts and other insane driving maneuvers.
- army: At Berkhamstead, a phantom Cromwellian army maneuvers on Wigginton Common.
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