different between stray vs stram

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: str?, IPA^(key): /st?e?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

From Middle English stray, strey, from Anglo-Norman estray, stray, Old French estrai, from the verb (see below).

Noun

stray (plural strays)

1. Any domestic animal that has no enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.
2. (figuratively) One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically.
3. The act of wandering or going astray.
4. (historical) An area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i.e. "the stray"
5. (radio) An instance of atmospheric interference.
   • 1926, Popular Radio (volume 9, page 191)

     This invention relates broadly to radio communication, but more particularly to a radio receiving system used for the reception of high frequency current signals wherever they are subject to interference from "static" or strays of an untuned or aperiodic character.

   • 1942, John C. Mathisson, Radio Acoustic Ranging (page 652)

     Because of their shortness, such signals are usually easy to distinguish from the bomb returns but, when such a stray is recorded just before the bomb return, too close to be distinguished by ear […]

   • 1976, IEEE Power Engineering Society, Nuclear Power: Health, Safety, Waste Disposal (page 20)

     Electromagnetic interference EMI, radio interference RI, television interference TVI, and radio frequency interference RFI, can all be described as a confusion to received radio signals due to strays and undesirable signals.

Hyponyms

• (stray cats) See feral cat

Related terms

• astray
• estray

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English strayen, partly from Old French estraier, from Vulgar Latin via strata, and partly from Middle English strien, streyen, strey?en (“to spread, scatter”), from Old English str??an (“to strew”).

Verb

stray (third-person singular simple present strays, present participle straying, simple past and past participle strayed)

1. (intransitive) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
   • 1642, John Denham, Cooper's Hill

     Thames among the wanton valleys strays.

2. (intransitive) To wander from one's limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
   • November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk

     It was a derby that left Manchester United a long way back in Manchester City’s wing-mirrors and, in the worst moments, straying dangerously close to being their own worst enemy.

4. (transitive) To cause to stray.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, V. i. 51:

     Hath not else his eye / Strayed his affection in unlawful love,

Synonyms

• deviate
• err

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English stray, from the noun (see above).

Adjective

stray (not comparable)

1. Having gone astray; strayed; wandering
2. In the wrong place; misplaced.

   a stray comma

Derived terms

• stray line
• stray mark

Translations

References

Anagrams

• T-rays, artsy, satyr, stary, trays, yrast

English

Etymology

Compare German stramm.

Verb

stram (third-person singular simple present strams, present participle stramming, simple past and past participle strammed)

1. (Britain, dialect, West Country, obsolete) To dash down; to beat.
2. To spring or recoil with violence.

References

• Wright, Joseph (1904) The English Dialect Dictionary?^[1], volume 5, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 803

Anagrams

• MSTAR, S.M.A.R.T., SMART, Smart, marts, smart, tarms, trams

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German stram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stram/, [sd???m?]

Adjective

stram

1. tight, taut
2. strict, stringent
3. stiff, severe, forbidding, acid, sour
4. pungent, acrid

Inflection

Verb

stram

1. imperative of stramme

Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /str?m/
• Hyphenation: stram
• Rhymes: -?m

Adjective

stram (comparative strammer, superlative stramst)

1. stiff, rigid, inflexible

Inflection

Derived terms

• stramheid

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

stram

1. imperative of stramme