英语词汇“stray”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	stray
释义	stray I. \ˈstrā\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English straien, from Middle French estraier from (assumed) Vulgar Latin extragare, from Latin extra- outside + vagari to wander — more at extra-, vagary *intransitive verb* 1. a. : to wander from company, from confinement or restraint, or from the proper limits : rove at large < leaving a gate open so that cattle stray — Agnes M. Miall > < the two had strayed apart where the woods were deepest — Mary Austin > b. : to leave a natural or accustomed habitat or environment < fruit trees and strayed garden flowers deep in the woods — Bernard DeVoto > < the most courteous … of eighteenth-century grands seigneurs strayed out of his age into ours — Gerald Abraham > < of adults … at least one-tenth might never had strayed outside in their lives — G.G.Coulton > 2. a. : to roam about without fixed direction or purpose : wander at random < fetid back alleys where we sometimes strayed — Marvin Barret > b. : to move in a winding course : meander c. : to move without voluntary control or under external compulsion < my hand automatically strays towards my pocket — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin > < eyes straying absently around the room > 3. a. (1) : to engage temporarily or momentarily in sinful, immoral, or other than praiseworthy actions or thoughts : err (2) : to think or utter ideas contrary to or different from an accepted dogma < those who strayed from the party line — Kurt Glaser > b. : to become distracted from an argument or chain of thought : take up a tangential point < I have strayed from my … role of historian … to indulge in a bit of prophecy — J.B.Conant > 4. : to wander accidentally from a direct or chosen route : lose one's way : deviate < strayed off the road … in the dark of the moon — Mary Webb > < the unit strayed across the border by mistake — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > 5. : to present a haphazard or unkempt appearance < black hair that strayed carelessly about her face — Liam O'Flaherty > < a leading article (which regrettably strays from page to page among the advertisements) — Times Literary Supplement > *transitive verb* 1. archaic : to cause to stray 2. archaic : to roam through or over II. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French estray, from Old French estraié, past participle of estraier to stray 1. a. (1) : a domestic animal that has left an enclosure or its proper place and company and wanders at large or is lost subject to impoundment and if unredeemed to forfeiture : estray (2) : an animal that has strayed < the shepherd rounded up the flock's strays > (3) : an unidentified domestic animal (as a dog or an unbranded steer) wandering at large b. (1) : a person or thing that strays or has strayed : a detached, isolated, or vagrant individual : straggler, waif < harbored white renegades and strays from hostile tribes — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < do not own more than three books other than casual contemporary strays — J.W.Krutch > (2) : an animal or plant found outside its natural range or habitat or out of season c. obsolete : a group of strayed animals, people, or things < hast thou seen a stray of bullocks and of heifers pass this way — Joseph Addison > 2. [Middle English, from straien to stray] archaic : the act or process of going astray or of strolling aimlessly < I would not from your love make such a stray — Shakespeare > 3. Britain : common land or pasturage; also : the right to allow one's stock to stray and feed thereon 4. a. : an electrical effect that is not produced by a transmitting station and that disturbs the reception of receiving apparatus b. : an electric wave or current causing a stray — compare atmospherics 5. : an unexpected formation encountered in drilling an oil or gas well III. adjective Etymology: stray (II) 1. a. : escaped from confinement, supervision, or restraint or from a group of its kind < stray cow > < stray dog > < stray child > b. : having been lost, misplaced, or forgotten < the other fellows take handkerchiefs home and stray coats sometimes — Janet Frame > 2. : wandering lost, aimless, or isolated from the normal or principal body, habitat, or course < details picked up from stray survivors — John Mason Brown > < account for every stray traveller in the mountains — Owen Wister > < a stray enemy group may at any time swoop down — Ed Cunningham > 3. a. : occurring or appearing sporadically or at random < stray acquaintances met with in hotel rooms and aeroplanes — Geographical Journal > < the white dogwood were stray handfuls of confetti in the young green — Horace Sutton > b. : touched upon or met with only in passing or in haste : occasional, incidental < a series of scenes that (except for stray ones) register honestly — John Kerry > < one or two stray expressions that have evaded revision — Times Literary Supplement > < a stray weekly hour of hygiene — Hortense Calisher > c. : scattered about < on our knees retrieving stray cigarettes — A. Conan Doyle > < collecting stray hairs from the farm horses' tails — W.P.Smith > < stray members of the congregation moved by the spirit may be prophesying in unknown tongues — W.L.Sperry > 4. : not serving any useful purpose : unwanted < necessarily results in serious errors when stray light … is not absorbed by the optical system — H.A.Stahl > < insulate them … so that no stray current is introduced into the circuit — A.C.Morrison > 5. : written hastily or thoughtlessly and published in obscure or ephemeral journals < wrote only one complete novel and a few stray pieces and fragments — Henri Peyre >
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