stray /strā/

1. To wander
2. To wander away, esp from control, or from the right way
3. To digress
4. To get lost

To set astray

1. A domestic animal that has strayed or is lost
2. A straggler
3. A waif
4. Anything occurring casually, isolatedly, or out of place
5. A body of strays (archaic)
6. A common
7. (in pl) atmospherics
8. A straying (Shakespeare)

1. Gone astray
2. Casual
3. Isolated

strayed adjective

Wandering, gone astray

strayˈer noun

strayˈing noun and adjective

strayˈling noun

A stray

stray field noun (elec eng)

A magnetic field set up around electric machines or current-carrying conductors that has no use and may interfere with the operation of measuring instruments, etc

stray radiation noun (physics)

Direct and secondary radiation from irradiated objects that has no use

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