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Definition: Straying |
StrayingAdjective1. Unable to find your way; "found the straying sheep". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "straying" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: Straying |
| English words defined with "straying": hitching bar, hitching post, hitchrack. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "straying": STITCH-BONDING-MACHINE TENDER ♦ two-hand control, two-hand press control, two-handed control, two-handed press control. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yes, well, I sense we may be straying down Tangent Boulevard here. (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Buddha | As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Straying" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 89.13% of the time. "Straying" is used about 92 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 89.13% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.35% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 92 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "straying": dog-straying. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "straying"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الشرود. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 迷路 (Astray, Strayed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | afdwaling (aberrance, aberration, digression, wandering from the point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | detemiĝo (digression, wandering from the point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | écartant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | ôfdwaling (aberrance, aberration, digression, wandering from the point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | streunend (stray), abirrend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Guarani | repia'ÿre (without straying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תעי" (erring, gad, going astray, wandering about). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 迷走 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | めいそう (contemplation, meditation, noted or celebrated priest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "길로 "어섬. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | rouail (prowl, ramble, rove, roving, wander, wandering), goll er shaghryn (abberate, blunder, blunder make mistake, blundering, divagate, err, stray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ayingstray заблудиться паразитный;блуждаюший. (various references) iomrall (an error, wandering). (various references) extravío (aberrance, aberration, deviation, loss, miscarriage, misconduct, misplacement, wandering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | deviari, devium, erratio, erratus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "straying": estraying. (additional references) | |
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"Straying" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Strahinja, stroying, traying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "straying" (pronounced strā"ing) |
| 5 | -t r ā" i ng | betraying, portraying. |
| 4 | -r ā" i ng | fraying, graying, praying, preying, spraying. |
| 3 | -ā" i ng | allaying, baying, buffeting, conveying, crocheting, decaying, delaying, dismaying, disobeying, displaying, doomsaying, Haying, laying, nonpaying, obeying, overplaying, paying, playing, prepaying, repaying, replaying, saying, slaying, staying, surveying, swaying, weighing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stingray. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: gastrin, gratins, ratings, staring, staying, stringy, stygian, syringa. | |
-2 letters: gainst, gantry, giants, grains, grainy, grants, gratin, gratis, instar, rasing, rating, raying, sanity, santir, sating, satiny, saying, stingy, strain, strang, string, stying, taring, trains, trying, tyring. | |
-3 letters: agist, airns, airts, angry, angst, antis, antsy, artsy, astir, ayins, gains, gaits, garni, giant, girns, girts, gnars. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: estraying, gyrations, signatory, stingrays. | |
+2 letters: gyniatries, laryngitis, panegyrist. | |
+3 letters: arrestingly, astringency, cosignatory, designatory, grandiosity, hairstyling, overstaying, panegyrists, pharyngitis, singularity, startlingly, stratifying, stringybark, tapestrying, travestying, tyrannising. | |
+4 letters: astringently, crystalizing, glycerinates, hairstylings, laryngitides, playwritings, scatteringly, scintigraphy, shatteringly, staggeringly, stringybarks, tracklayings, transmogrify. | |
+5 letters: crystallising, crystallizing, distractingly, everlastingly, frustratingly, geostationary, investigatory, nearsightedly, nightmarishly, pharyngitides, saprogenicity, storyboarding. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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