STRAY


Meaning of STRAY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ streɪ ]

( strays, straying, strayed)

1.

If someone strays somewhere, they wander away from where they are supposed to be.

Tourists often get lost and stray into dangerous areas...

A railway line crosses the park so children must not be allowed to stray.

VERB : V prep / adv , V

2.

A stray dog or cat has wandered away from its owner’s home.

...a refuge for stray cats.

ADJ : ADJ n

Stray is also a noun.

The dog was a stray which had been adopted.

N-COUNT

3.

If your mind or your eyes stray , you do not concentrate on or look at one particular subject, but start thinking about or looking at other things.

Even with the simplest cases I find my mind straying...

= wander

VERB : V

4.

You use stray to describe something that exists separated from other similar things.

An 8-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet...

She shrugged a stray lock of hair out of her eyes.

ADJ : ADJ n

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