What's the difference between straggler and strayer?
Straggler
Definition:
(n.) One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.
(n.) A roving vagabond.
(n.) Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
(n.) Something that stands alone or by itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only a few stragglers outside O'Byron's pub refused to believe this was happening on Good Friday.
(2) In the morning, they would go to bed and order the yacht to leave port, knowing the crew would have to remove any stragglers before they set sail.
(3) Some findings of the live animal, such as 'straggler', were associated with a wide range of post-mortem abnormalities.
(4) Then I had to wait for God knows how long until Will Adamsdale wheeled it out again for the stragglers, and when he did, I rolled up and watched slack-jawed.
(5) The euro was always meant to be a political project above all – lifting Europe’s stragglers up to the living standards of the rest and, in doing so,k cementing the political ties between Athens and Antwerp, Madrid and Munich.
(6) Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker, and her lieutenants lobbied till the last minute to round up final stragglers, but heroic measures were needed.
(7) Maybe, next week, we'll see if these stragglers fold into the party ranks.
(8) With stragglers Obama and India's Manmohan Singh confirming their attendance over the weekend, some 100 world leaders are now expected to be in Copenhagen, bolstering chances of emerging with an agreement by 18 December.
(9) #afc September 2, 2013 6.14pm BST Here come the stragglers Crystal Palace have confirmed the signing of Adrian Mariappa, the Jamaica centre-back, from Reading for an undisclosed fee on a three-year contract.
(10) The Arsenal defenders among the stragglers departing this arena could only wince at another glimpse of Didier Drogba .
(11) Results from a second laboratory contained both stragglers and outliers.
(12) Leave us last stragglers of the culture apocalypse in peace to paw in fingerless gloves through 12-inch relics of the time when music was still a living, radical thing.
(13) He's able to gather an army from the weak-minded, the stragglers, finding the darkness that's in us all and using it.
(14) The bot wheels around pastures on remote control, drawing stragglers back to the herd, though without actually having to nip at their heels.
(15) They’ve already given him an easy-to-use script that should be too predictable: “Hillary Clinton is much too dangerous, Trump has vowed to change his ways …” Yes, there are a few stragglers who will never be converted.
(16) Watson welcomed the winning runner at the tape, encouraged the stragglers and then, on Sunday night, led a Q&A session.
(17) Then the family gathered themselves and made their way down to the entrance on the Strand, pausing to let the stragglers out before them, knowing the grand exit that was expected, and prepared to do their bit.
(18) Now sex traffickers are following the columns of refugees, picking off young unaccompanied stragglers .
(19) While Bush and other stragglers such as Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee failed to make much impression on the debate, the third Republican TV showdown revealed how wide open its primary race remains compared with a Democratic race increasingly dominated by Clinton.
(20) But "stragglers" may not be allowed to finish if they're still running at night.
Strayer
Definition:
(n.) One who strays; a wanderer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The biological response modifier r(I)n.r(C12-U)n, referred to here as mismatched double-stranded (ds) RNA, was examined for antihuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) activity in vitro because of its known antiviral activity and ability to induce interferon (IFN) in other biological systems [Carter, W. A., Strayer, D. R., Hubbell, H. R. & Brodsky, I.
(2) The authors have demonstrated, by the use of metal markers and radiographic control at operation, that adequate release cannot be achieved by severance of the calcaneal tendon alone, and that in order to ensure relaxation of the gastrocnemius muscle, the operation of choice is gastrocnemius recession by the method of Strayer, coupled with lengthening of the calcaneal tendon to deal with such degree of the deformity as may be attributable to shortening of the soleus.
(3) Malignant rabbit fibroma virus (MV) is a recombinant poxvirus derived from Shope fibroma virus (SFV) and rabbit myxoma virus (D. S. Strayer, E. Skaletsky, G. F. Cabirac, P. A.
(4) The sequence for the BamHI "C" fragment of MV is reported elsewhere (Strayer et al., 1991).