0 to move away from the place where you should be, without intending to -- сбиться с пути, заблудиться
1 to start thinking or talking about a different subject from the one you should be giving attention to -- отклоняться, отвлекаться
2 A stray animal is lost or has no home. -- бродячий, бездомный
a stray dog
3 A stray piece of something has become separated from the main part. -- отдельный, случайный
a stray hair
4 an animal that is lost or has no home -- заблудившееся или бездомное животное
Both of us were called to order because we were straying wide of the subject of the debate.
The purpose of the exclusion zone was to prevent aircraft and ships from straying into a possible danger area.
The fraction of intelligent races with sufficient technology and the desire to communicate is clearly an issue that strays from the purely physical and biological sciences into the social sciences.
Gradually it became clear, however, that the king meant to restrain not only corantos that strayed into domestic policy or highly sensitive foreign negotiations, but all news.
A 'close' represented the spatial extent of property; a trespass (literally a transgression) could be perpetrated by animals straying across an imaginary line and entering the close.
The standard methodological reading of the doubt is on the right track, but it strays from the path in treating certainty as the chief, or perhaps the only, methodological aim.
Higgins et al. discusses detecting when a student has written an essay that strays from the test question topic, which is critical to the evaluation of student writing.
On cycles, we are not interested in how far the walker strays from its starting point, but in the mixing properties of the distribution on the cycle.
