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
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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