0 present participle of stray
1 to travel along a route that was not originally intended, or to move outside a limited area:
Losses caused by predators (mainly hyenas attacking straying animals) were responsible for 6-9 % of calf losses.
At the risk of straying too far afield, let me provide some background on mathematical learning theory.
These also failed to protect enclosing farmers against travelling stock straying off the path and mingling with their own animals while crossing their land.
Second, they acknowledged that the president had grown more comfortable in straying away from prepared remarks and speaking from the gut.
All this is of one solid block, and any accidental straying must either be ignored or cause its total collapse.
Hence, if reshuffles are possible, ministers' preferences for bigger budgets are tempered by a concern for not straying too far from the official party policy.
Rumors about ' already dead military men ' abounded in the 1940s, and contributed to many young wives straying.
We are straying into the shadowy area of musical and verbal identity, and the kinds of patterns of recognition that begin to enable us to construct such identities.
