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stray
[ strey ]
verb (used without object)
- to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose:
to stray from the main road.
Synonyms: ,
- to wander; roam:
I strayed through the maze of the forest.
Synonyms: ,
- to go astray; deviate, as from a moral, religious, or philosophical course:
to stray from the teachings of the church.
Synonyms:
- to digress or become distracted:
to stray from the main topic.
noun
- a domestic animal found wandering at large or without an owner:
The humane society traps strays, spays or neuters them, and returns them to the feral colony in which they were found.
- any person or animal who is homeless or friendless:
For a popular girl, she has the oddest misfit friends—her mom says she just can’t help but collect strays.
- a person or animal that strays:
the strays of a flock.
- strays, Radio. static.
adjective
- straying or having strayed, as a domestic animal.
- found or occurring apart from others or as an isolated or casual instance; incidental or occasional.
- Radio. undesired:
stray capacitance.
stray
/ ²õ³Ù°ù±ðɪ /
verb
- to wander away, as from the correct path or from a given area
- to wander haphazardly
- to digress from the point, lose concentration, etc
- to deviate from certain moral standards
noun
- a domestic animal, fowl, etc, that has wandered away from its place of keeping and is lost
- ( as modifier )
stray dogs
- a lost or homeless person, esp a child
waifs and strays
- an isolated or random occurrence, specimen, etc, that is out of place or outside the usual pattern
adjective
- scattered, random, or haphazard
a stray bullet grazed his thigh
Derived Forms
- ˈ²õ³Ù°ù²¹²â±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²õ³Ù°ù²¹²â·±ð°ù noun
- ³Ü²Ô·²õ³Ù°ù²¹²â·¾±²Ô²µ adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of stray1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of stray1
Example Sentences
Sheeran's track doesn't stray too far from his usual pop template, but the Persian influences will undoubtedly bolster his figures in the Middle East - the world's fastest-growing music market.
Unlike Grant, McGilbert strayed away from crowdfunding, as she doesn’t see it as a sustainable business model.
Some Southwest customers expressed disappointment that the company was straying from features that once defined the brand.
Maybe Kilmer strayed from that rigid path too often for some people’s liking, but his deviations from the expected also made hundreds more fall head over heels for his work.
The government in Bratislava has already loosened legal protections allowing bears to be killed if they stray too close to human habitation.
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