(a.) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
(a.) To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.
(a.) Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
(v. t.) To cause to stray.
(v. i.) Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep.
(n.) Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively.
(n.) The act of wandering or going astray.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
(2) Until that point, Bravo had looked assured, often straying 30 yards off his goal-line and confident enough to try a couple of passes that many goalkeepers would consider too risky.
(3) Spatial distribution of the disease correlated with indirect EIA data on healthy urban population (3116 persons examined) and stray dogs (152 animals examined).
(4) At peak times 1,300 vehicles an hour will use the lanes, with non-Olympic motorists fined £130 if they stray into them.
(5) The helicopter strayed more than a mile into Turkish airspace, but crashed inside Syria after being hit by missiles fired from the jet, Turkish officials said at the time.
(6) Guardiola has ever-so-slightly strayed away from what has made Barcelona so brilliant now, and there are certainly questions to be asked about how Busquets-Iniesta-Xavi triumvirate has been disrupted by Cesc Fabregas.
(7) Lula responded by insisting that his government would not stray from its quest to protect the Amazon and appointed another high-profile environmentalist, Green party founder Carlos Minc, as his new minister.
(8) "Stray bullets are part of my life here," says Jessica, a 17-year-old football coach.
(9) Hence stray voltage may threaten farm animal health and production wherever modern animal housing is applied.
(10) But in 14 years, the search for international justice in Africa has strayed far from the "never again" principle, and into the murkier waters of deals and fixes.
(11) Bedoya then strays offside on the other side of the pitch.
(12) In his search for a new economic model for the paper that would take it into a secure digital future, Thompson has been experimenting with innovations that appear to stray from his corporate bunker on the 16th floor of the Times building into the editorial realm.
(13) Turkey has said the jet mistakenly strayed into Syrian air space on Friday, but was quickly warned to leave by Turkish authorities and was a mile inside international airspace when it was shot down.
(14) You made sure that Mairead "stuck to the story", checking with her at every opportunity that she wasn't going to stray, as you put it.
(15) The laboratories without stray light problems reported results with less instrument-to-instrument variation, the results followed a symmetrical distribution, and the mean of the results provided an accurate estimate of the absorbance of the solutions.
(16) Others face more niggling problems: in a recent post on the local Facebook group “Eliminate All Stray Dogs”, one resident claimed an unruly pack kept jumping on his car, destroying its windscreen wipers.
(17) and other species in stool specimens from stray dogs and cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
(18) Up to 4.5 million Russians were already expected to change holiday plans after the Turkish military shot down a Russian jet that strayed into Turkish airspace on a bombing mission over Syria, and military operations against Kurdish insurgents in the south-east have added to a sense of crisis.
(19) Udall barely mentioned government surveillance on the campaign trail, choosing instead to mount a singular focus on female voters, rarely straying from two topics : contraception and abortion.
(20) The four people arrested in the Gloucestershire cull zone were held on suspicion of aggravated trespass after police responded to reports of horns being blown and individuals straying from a public footpath.
Tray
Definition:
(v. t.) To betray; to deceive.
(n.) A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.
(n.) A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver.
(n.) A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles.
Example Sentences:
(1) A hypothesis that the unexpected similarity of infection in the two strains was related to differences in rates of contact with the peat trays was not supported by preliminary data on mouse behaviour that revealed equal frequency of contact with peat trays between strains.
(2) The stainless steel 316 mesh tray with cancellous bone offers a method of mandibular reconstruction which theoretically is appealing from the viewpoint of basic osseous healing.
(3) Each experiment was designed as a 2 x 2 x 3 factorial with normal birds and acclimatization birds fitted with harnesses or housed over collection trays and given one of three dietary treatments.
(4) With the 40-sample capacity of the sample tray and the last sample stop capability, the automated system produces, for example, 40 20-min chromatograms in approximately 13 hr of unattended operation.
(5) Place on a large baking tray and fold over the edges to give a 1cm pastry border.
(6) These kinds of impressions and trays did not influence the accuracy of impressions.
(7) Only after a screening tray demonstration of cinnamic aldehyde allergy could a relevant history be taken from these patients.
(8) The topographies of key-pressing and magazine behavior differed; the food tray was not illuminated.
(9) The perforated trays (B and D) reproduce more accurately the distances along the length and the width of the arch than the nonperforated trays (A and C).
(10) Waste eluates are collected and drained to the sink by a Teflon tray positioned between the columns and counting tubes, also held by the turntable.
(11) Haemagglutination Test (static settling test in plastic microtiter trays) was used and several species of red blood cells were employed.
(12) If the eye shielding block cannot be placed at the optimal shielding point, a simple coin placed on the eye lid surface will also reduce the lens dose substantially when a regular eye shielding block is placed on the blocking tray (Lin's coin effect).
(13) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
(14) Of the 27 patients transplanted at these 3 centers with kidneys received on the basis of ROP tray results, none experienced hyperacute or early irreversible rejection and actual graft survival at 6-48 months is 74%.
(15) The always occurring contamination of the impression tray rules out a complete stopping of infection between the patient and the laboratory staff.
(16) We present a case in which the failure could be expected because of improper design of the tibial tray.
(17) Place on a tray lined with parchment and bake for 10–12 minutes, then drizzle with syrup.
(18) While the tray lists do not replace formal procedure manuals, they are helpful adjuncts for personnel who prepare the surgical trays.
(19) These included an investigation of egg handling techniques from nest box to hatcher; the adoption by the hatchery of plastic setter trays; an improvement to incubator environment; an improvement in the overall hatchery hygiene programme and the introduction of a regular monitoring programme based on the examination of hatchery fluff.
(20) Using this method, unknown shoe allergens can be isolated, identified, and added to the shoe test tray of potential allergens.