Meaning of stray in English

Examples of stray

stray
However, the social context strategy strayed from this pattern of distribution.
Second, they acknowledged that the president had grown more comfortable in straying away from prepared remarks and speaking from the gut.
Much acousmatic music strays in and out of transcontextual suggestions - the sounds of nature, the elements and environment are particularly common.
Rumors about ' already dead military men ' abounded in the 1940s, and contributed to many young wives straying.
Typical practice in commons grazing is for children to walk with the herds to monitor strays, deter theft, and return the animals at night.
Hence, if reshuffles are possible, ministers' preferences for bigger budgets are tempered by a concern for not straying too far from the official party policy.
We are straying into the shadowy area of musical and verbal identity, and the kinds of patterns of recognition that begin to enable us to construct such identities.
On cycles, we are not interested in how far the walker strays from its starting point, but in the mixing properties of the distribution on the cycle.
Higgins et al. discusses detecting when a student has written an essay that strays from the test question topic, which is critical to the evaluation of student writing.
The standard methodological reading of the doubt is on the right track, but it strays from the path in treating certainty as the chief, or perhaps the only, methodological aim.
A 'close' represented the spatial extent of property; a trespass (literally a transgression) could be perpetrated by animals straying across an imaginary line and entering the close.
Gradually it became clear, however, that the king meant to restrain not only corantos that strayed into domestic policy or highly sensitive foreign negotiations, but all news.
The fraction of intelligent races with sufficient technology and the desire to communicate is clearly an issue that strays from the purely physical and biological sciences into the social sciences.
The purpose of the exclusion zone was to prevent aircraft and ships from straying into a possible danger area.
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Both of us were called to order because we were straying wide of the subject of the debate.
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Translations of stray

in Chinese (Traditional)
偏離原路, 越過限定區域, 偏離主題…
in Chinese (Simplified)
偏离原路, 越过限定区域, 走神…
in Spanish
callejero, abandonado, acabar en…
in Portuguese
de rua, abandonado, perdido…
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道に迷った, 迷子の, 飼い主のない…
farkında olmadan uzaklaşmak, kaybolmak, konudan sapmak/uzaklaşmak…
s’égarer, divaguer, errant/-ante…
abandonat…
afdwalen, zwerfdier, zwerf-…
شارِد, ضالّ…
zatoulat se, toulavé zvíře, zatoulaný…
forvilde sig, omstrejfende dyr, herreløst dyr…
tersesat, gelandangan, sesat…
พลัดหลง, สัตว์ที่หลงทาง, ซึ่งพลัดหลง…
đi lang thang, đi lạc, gia súc bị lạc…
zbaczać, zabłądzić, bezpański…
lepas, terbiar, beberapa…
sich verlaufen, abkommen, der Streuner…
forville seg, streife, herreløs…
길을 잃은, 떠돌이의…
заблудити, відбитися, бездомна тварина…
randagio, allontanarsi, smarrirsi…
сбиться с пути, заблудиться, отклоняться…
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If you say to someone you know or see where they are coming from, you mean you understand why that person has a particular opinion, often although you do not have that opinion.

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