(v. t.) To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle.
(v. t.) To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.
(v. t.) To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.
(v. t.) To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
(n.) The act of straggling.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the electron beam this is accomplished using a dual scattering foil system in which the secondary foil is shaped to optimize uniformity and minimize energy loss and energy straggling.
(2) His family were ahead and he was just straggling behind.
(3) That film’s entire team came triumphantly on and then had to be ignominiously herded off while Moonlight’s team straggled on for their anti-climactic and muddled moment .
(4) Range straggling, creation of secondary particles, electron pickup, and the effects of inhomogeneous absorbers were analyzed in terms of cell survival.
(5) But the first edition was 3,500 copies and it finely straggled into paperback - there was one bidder.
(6) This second image shows that the boy was straggling behind a larger group of refugees.
(7) Larks ascending Read more A singleton shot out from the side of the path, and another straggle of birds rose from the next rectangle of ridged soil, space-hopping over the ground.
(8) Behind came a straggling caravan of mules and porters, including a couple of teenage boys who watched the college girls with sullen fascination.
(9) The diameter of the papules is mostly 3-5 mm, they are not painful when touched, are straggled irregularly, their large numbers are on the upper surface of the body.
(10) This study has intercompared the predictions of Fermi-Eyges theory for the rms spatial spread (sigma) of an electron pencil beam scattering in muscle-, lung- and bone-equivalent media with those of; two range straggling modifications to the theory, Monte Carlo simulations, and an empirical method based on broad beam penumbra.
(11) The effect of the physical state (phase) of the absorbing medium and the energy straggling of the alpha particles on the calculation of the radiation dose due to the daughter products of radon deposited in the lung have been studied in detail.
(12) Gone are the straggle of run-down Victorian buildings, and in has come a slick modernist exterior, modern classrooms and wide corridors after a complete rebuild six years ago.
(13) The conclusions are based on a detailed Monte Carlo model which includes Landau straggling, multiple scattering, and the space dependence of the magnetic field.
(14) The discrepancy in the surface dose is shown to exist because the modified Landau energy-loss straggling distribution used in ETRAN underestimates the mean energy loss by about 10% since it underestimates the number of large energy-loss events.
(15) The two range-straggling modifications to Fermi-Eyges theory developed for soft tissue do not agree with either measured or Monte Carlo results for sigma in homogeneous scattering media of lung and bone.
(16) One group is ahead, a few straggle behind, among them Marwan and other children.
(17) These previously published kernels either completely ignore secondary electrons or are based on a Monte Carlo code which improperly sampled the Landau energy straggling distribution.
(18) A second photograph, posted by UN staff on Tuesday, showed that the boy was straggling behind a larger group of refugees.
(19) The small lateral and range straggling, combined with an increase of the dose deposition with increasing penetration depth enables the production of dose profiles shaped precisely to the contours of the treatment volume.
(20) A low, sullen warehouse building, 299 Meserole Street sits in a straggle of industrial units not far across the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn.
Wander
Definition:
(v. i.) To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
(v. i.) To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
(v. i.) To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.
(v. t.) To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) lyase activity was determined by the recently described spectrophotometric method of Wanders et al.
(2) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(3) Residents had called police after spotting a man wandering around the park and yelling incoherently.
(4) Wandering is movement changing over time and, thus, is a nonlinear ultradian rhythm, with locomoting and nonlocomoting phases.
(5) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
(6) I would like to place on record our sincere thanks to Owen, Sandy Stewart [Coyle's assistant] and Steve Davis [coach] for all their hard work during their time at Bolton Wanderers."
(7) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
(9) Boy, a new play by Leo Butler , follows Liam, a 17-year-old Neet (not in education, employment or training) for 24 hours as he wanders the capital, trying to find friends, connect with a family who have given up on him and with community services that communicate so differently from the way Liam does, it seems like they are speaking another language.
(10) An electronic security system can improve the quality of life for alert, oriented patients (and their families) who share a unit with confused, wandering patients.
(11) Hagere Selam remains a modest place of mudwalled shops with corrugated roofs, cows, donkeys and sheep wandering unpaved streets and children idling away an afternoon at table football – a generation with no memory of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands and woke up the world.
(12) He's fouled out on the right, and takes the free kick very quickly, taking advantage of a wandering Krol, but the referee deems the kick was not take from the right place, and was probably moving as well.
(13) For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths."
(14) Larry Page, Google's chief executive, believes self-driving cars have enormous economic and health implications: they should cut the number of road deaths, either through drivers' attention wandering, or through driving too close to other cars and being unable to react.
(15) After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, kitted out in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose barnacles.
(16) Distribution of the recurrence was different: some previous sites had apparently become refractory and remained clear, some involvement had recurred in the same site, and new areas of involvement had appeared, causing the eruption to "wander," as is often seen in acute fixed drug eruption due to acetaminophen.
(17) She manifested not only episodic bulimia, impulsive self-injury, suicidal attempt, and obvious depressive emotion; but also self-provoked-vomiting, wandering, stealing and lying.
(18) Baseline wander and muscle artifact are particularly troublesome sources of interference.
(19) O’Malley, the only candidate to wander into the spin room, was asked if he thought he had broken through.
(20) Individuals have shown transient AV block, irregular sinus rhythm, wandering pacemaker, and inverted T waves.