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What (who) is Stray - definition
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Strays (album); Strays; Stray (disambiguation); Strays (film); The Stray (disambiguation); The Stray
stray
(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
stray
I. v. n.
1.
Wander, rove, ramble, range, roam, straggle, stroll, deviate, digress, go out of the way, go astray.
2.
Swerve (from rectitude), err.
II. n.
Estray.
III. a.
(Colloq.) Strayed, wandering, gone astray.
stray
v. (D; intr.)
1) to stray from (to stray from the subject)
2) (d; intr.) to stray into, onto (to stray onto smb.'s property)
Examples of use of Stray
1. If he is going to stray then he is going to stray.
2. Stray dogs Following a spate of poisonings in the capital’s western suburbs, the Athens Municipality said yesterday it will keep running its stray dog protection program.
3. A number of accidents have been caused by stray cattle Officials in a northern Nigerian city have announced they will arrest stray animals after a number of accidents.
4. Even the stray dogs have neat fur and sparkling eyes.
5. Rock musician Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) is 45.