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Definitions for Strays

[1] to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
[2] to wander; roam: The new puppy strayed from room to room.
[3] to go astray; deviate, as from a moral, religious, or philosophical course: to stray from the teachings of the church.
[4] to digress or become distracted.
[5] a domestic animal found wandering at large or without an owner.
[6] any homeless or friendless person or animal.
[7] a person or animal that strays: the strays of a flock.
[8] strays, Radio . static.
[9] straying or having strayed, as a domestic animal.
[10] found or occurring apart from others or as an isolated or casual instance; incidental or occasional.
[11] Radio . undesired: stray capacitance.
[12] Also called: stray capacitance electronics undesired capacitance in equipment, occurring between the wiring, between the wiring and the chassis, or between components and the chassis
[13] telecomm another word for static (def. 9)
[14] to wander away, as from the correct path or from a given area
[15] to wander haphazardly
[16] to digress from the point, lose concentration, etc
[17] to deviate from certain moral standards
[18] a domestic animal, fowl, etc, that has wandered away from its place of keeping and is lost (as modifier ) stray dogs
[19] a lost or homeless person, esp a child waifs and strays
[20] an isolated or random occurrence, specimen, etc, that is out of place or outside the usual pattern
[21] scattered, random, or haphazard a stray bullet grazed his thigh

Words related to Strays

straydepart, wander, diverge, swerve, err, drift, roam, meander, deviate, digress, divagate, ramble, sin, traipse, turn, range, rove, straggle, gad, gallivant

Words nearby Strays

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Origin of Strays

1250–1300; (v.) Middle English strayen, aphetic variant of astraien, estraien < Middle French estraier < Vulgar Latin *extrāvagāre to wander out of bounds (see extravagant); (noun) Middle English, in part derivative of the v., in part < Anglo-French stray, Middle French estrai, derivative of estraier

Other words from Strays

stray·er , noun
un·stray·ing , adjective

Word origin for Strays

C14: from Old French estraier, from Vulgar Latin estragāre (unattested), from Latin extrā- outside + vagāri to roam; see astray , extravagant , stravaig

Synonyms for Strays

depart, diverge, wander, digress, divagate, ramble, sin, circumlocute, do wrong, excurse, get off the subject, get off the track, get sidetracked, go off on a tangent