stray
stray
- n an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal)
- v move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- v wander from a direct course or at random
The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her - v lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- s not close together in time
a few stray crumbs - s (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home
a stray calf
a stray dog
- His adroitness in pickiing up stray pins was so startling that his office boys were instructed to see that there were none about when important conferences pended, since his .
- Precision optical instruments depend on eliminating any and all stray reflected light to get their readings.
- His design team, a tiny group handpicked by him, spent its first few years working on "studies" and then several incarnations of the Apple Newton--and watching the company stray .