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Definition: Wander |
WanderVerb1. Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next". 2. Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?". 3. Go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town". 4. To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body". 5. Lose clarity or turn aside esp. from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wander" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | Short for apparent wander. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The errors in the timing of significant instants of a digital signal, measured relative to the system reference clock, which vary at frequencies less than 10 Hz. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The long-term variation of the significant instant of a digital signal from its ideal position in time. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geography | A satellite in synchronous orbit tends to -- from position, chiefly because Earth and its gravitational field are not symmetrical, but also because of gravitational effects of the Sun and Moon. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Deviation of a hole from the intended path, e. g. , because of heterogeneities in the workpiece. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. An unintentional change in the course of a borehole. CF:deviate; walk; warp. (references) |
Post & Telecom | The periodic, small but perceptible movement of the radar display on the surface of the phosphor. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Long-distance land bird migration
Many species of land birds migrate very long distances, the most common pattern being for birds to breed in the temperate or arctic northern hemisphere and winter in warmer regions, often in the tropics or the southern hemisphere.
There is a strong genetic component to migration in terms of timing and route, but this may be modified by environmental influences. An interesting example where a change of migration route has occurred because of such a geographical barrier is the trend for some Blackcaps in central Europe to migrate west and winter in Great Britain rather than cross the Alps.
The advantage of the migration strategy is that, in the long days of the northern summer, breeding birds have more hours to feed their young on often abundant food supplies, particularly insects. As the days shorten in autumn and food supplies become scarce, the birds can return to warmer regions where the length of the day varies less and there is an all year round food supply.
The downside of migration is the hazards of the journey, especially when difficult habitats such as deserts and oceans must be crossed, and weather conditions may be adverse.
The risks of predation are also high. The Eleanora's Falcon which breeds on Mediterranean islands has a very late breeding season, timed so that autumn passerine migrants can be hunted to feed its young.
Whether a particular species migrates depends on a number of factors. The climate of the breeding area is important, and few species can cope with the harse winters of inland Canada or northern Eurasia. Thus the Blackbird Turdus merula is migratory in Scandinavia, but not in the milder climate of southern Europe.
The nature of the staple food is also important. Most specialists insect eaters are long-distance migrants, and have little choice but to head south in winter.
Sometimes the factors are finely balanced. The Whinchat Saxicola rubetra of Europe is a long-distance migrant wintering in the tropics, whereas its close relative, the Stonechat Saxicola torquata is resident in most of its range, and moves only short distances from the colder north and east.
Certain areas, because of their location, have become famous as watchpoints for migrating birds. Examples are the Point Pelee National Park in Canada, and Spurn in England. Drift migration of birds blown off course by the wind can result in "falls" of large numbers of migrants at coastal sites.
Another cause of birds occurring outside their normal ranges is the "spring overshoot" in which birds returning to their breeding areas overshoot and end up further north than intended.
A mechanism which can lead to great rarities turning up as vagrants thousands of kilometres out of range is reverse migration, where the genetic programming of young birds fails to work properly.
Recent research suggests that long-distance passerine migrants are of South American and African, rather than northern hemisphere, evolutionary origins. They are effectively southern species coming north to breed rather than northern species going south to winter.
Broad-winged long distance migrants
Some large broad-winged birds rely on thermal columns of rising hot air to enable them to soar. These include many birds of prey such as vultures, eagles and buzzards, but also storks.
Migratory species in these groups have great difficulty crossing large bodies of water, since thermals can only form over land, and these birds cannot maintain active flight for long distances.
The Mediterranean therefore presents a major obstacle to soaring birds, which are forced to cross at the narrowest points. This means that massive numbers of large raptors and storks pass through areas such as Gibraltar, Falsterbo and the Bosphorus at migration times. Commoner species, such as the Honey Buzzard can be counted in hundreds of thousands in autumn.
Other barriers, such as mountain ranges, can also cause funnelling, particularly of the large diurnal migrants.
Short-distance land bird migration
The long distance migrants in the previous section are effectively genetically programmed to respond to changing lengths of days. However many species move shorter distances, but may do so only in response to harsh weather conditions.
Thus mountain and moorland breeders, like the Wallcreeper and White-throated Dipper may move only altitudinally to escape the cold higher ground. Other species like the Merlin and Skylark will move further to the coast or to a more southerly region.
Species like the Chaffinch are not migratory in Great Britain, but will move south or to Ireland in very cold weather. Interesting, in Scandinavia, the female of this species migrates, but not the male, giving rise to the specific name coelebs, a batchelor.
Short distance passerine migrants have two evolutionary origins. Those which have long distance migrants in the same family, like the Chiffchaff, are species of southern hemisphere origins which have progressively shortened their return migration so that they stay in the northern hemisphere.
Those species which have no long distance migratory relative, like the waxwings, are effectively moving in response to winter weather, rather than enhanced breeding opportunities.
Wildfowl and wader migration
The typical image of migration is of northern landbirds such as swallows and birds of prey making long flights to the tropics. Many northern breeding ducks geese and swans are also long-distance migrants, but need only to move from their arctic breeding grounds far enough south to escape frozen waters.
This means that most wildfowl remain in the Northern hemisphere, but in milder countries. For example, the Pink-footed Goose migrates from Iceland to Great Britain and neighbouring countries. Usually wintering grounds are traditional and learned by the young when they migrate with their parents.
Some ducks, such as the Garganey, do move completely or partially into the tropics.
A similar situation occurs with waders (called "shorebirds" in North America). Many species, such as Dunlin and Western Sandpiper undertake long movements from their arctic breeding grounds to warmer locations in the same hemisphere, but others like Semipalmated Sandpiper travel huge distances to the tropics.
Most of the wildfowl are large and powerful, and even the waders are strong fliers. This means that birds wintering in temperate regions have the capacity to make further shorter movements in the event of particularly inclement weather.
Seabird migration
Much of what has been said in the previous section applies to many seabirds. Some, like the Black Guillemot and some gulls are quite sedentary, others, such as most of the terns and auks breeding in the temperate northen hemisphere move south varying distances in winter. The Arctic Tern sees more daylight than any other bird, moving from its arctic breeding grounds to the antarctic wintering areas. Seabirds, of course, have the advantage that they can feed on migration.
The most pelagic species, mainly in the order Procellariiformes, are great wanderers, and the albatrosses of the southern oceans may circle the globe as they ride the "roaring forties" outside the breeding season. The tubenoses in general spread thinly over large areas of open ocean, but congregate when food becomes available.
Pelagic birding trips attract petrels and other procellarids by tipping "chum", a mixture of fish oil and offal, into the sea. Within minutes, a previously apparently empty ocean is full of petrels, fulmars and shearwaters attracted by the food.
A few seabirds, like Wilson's Petrel, and Great Shearwater are amongst the few species that breed in the southern hemispehere and migrate north in the southern winter.
Migration in the tropics
In the tropics there is little variation in the length of day throughout the year, and it is always warm enough for an adequate food supply. Apart from the seasonal movements of northern hemisphere wintering species, most species are in the broadest sense resident. However many species undergo movements of varying distances depending on the rainfall.
Many tropical regions have wet and dry seasons, the monsoons of India being perhaps the best known example. An example of a bird whose distribution is rain associated is the Woodland Kingfisher of west Africa.
There are a few species, notably cuckoos, which are genuine long-distance migrants within the tropics. An example is the Lesser Cuckoo, which breeds in India and winters in Africa.
In the high mountains, such as the Himalayas and the Andes, there are of course also altitudinal movements of greater or lesser extent by many species.
Migration in Australasia
Bird migration is primarily, but not entirely, a Northern Hemisphere phenomenon. In the Southern Hemisphere, seasonal migration tends to be much less marked. There are several reasons for this.
First, the largely uninterupted expanses of land mass or ocean tend not to funnel migrations into narrow and obvious pathways, making them less obvious to the human observer. Second, at least for terrestrial birds, climatic regions tend to fade into one another over a long distance rather than be entirely separate: this means that rather than make long trips over unsuitable habitat to reach particular destinations, migrant species can usually travel at a relaxed pace, feeding as they go: short of banding studies it is often not obvious that the birds seen in any particular locality as the seasons change are in fact different members of the same species passing through, gradually working their way north or south.
Relatively few Australasian birds migrate in the way that so many European and North American species do. This is largely a matter of geography: the Australasian climate has seasonal extremes no less compelling than those of Europe, however they are far less predictable and tend to take place over periods both shorter and longer. A couple of weeks of heavy rain in one part or another of the usually dry centre of Australia, for example, produces dramatic plant and invertebrate growth, attracting birds from all directions. This can happen at any time of year, summer or winter and, in any given area, may not happen again for a decade or more.
Broader climatic extremes are highly unpredictable also: expected seasonal heat or rain arrives or does not arrive, depending on the vaguaries of El Niño: it is commonplace to have stretches of five or ten years at a time when winter rains do not eventuate during the El Niño cycle, and equally common to have La Niña periods which turn arid zones into areas of lush grass and shallow lakes. Long distance migration requires a heavy investment in time and body mass—and given the random nature of El Niño, an investment with an uncertain return.
In broad, Australasian birds tend to be sedantry or nomadic, moving on whenever conditions become unfavourable, to whichever area happens to be more suitable at the time.
There are many exceptions, however. Some species make the long haul to breed in far distant northern climes every year, notably swifts, and a great many wading birds that breed in the Arctic Circle during the southern winter.
Many others arrive for the southern spring and summer to breed, then fly to tropical northern Australia, New Guinea, or the islands of South East Asia for the Southern winter. Examples include cuckoos, the Satin Flycatcher, the Dollarbird, and the Rainbow Bee-eater.
Others again are altitudinal migrants, moving to higher country during summer, returning to warmer areas in winter like several robins, or travel north and south with the seasons but within a relatively restricted range. The tiny 10 cm Silvereye is an example: most of the southernmost Tasmanian race crosses the 200 miles of Bass Strait after breeding to disperse into Victoria, South Australia, NSW and even southern Queensland, replacing the normal residents who fly still further north, following the band of fertile country along the coast, feeding through the day and travelling mostly at night. The northernmost populations, however, are nomadic rather than migratory, as are the Silvereyes of southern Western Australia, which is bounded by thousands of miles of desert to the north and east, and sea to the south and west.
See also
- Bird ringing
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bird migration."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In telecommunication, wander are long-term random variations of the significant instants of a digital signal from their ideal positions.Note 1: Wander variations are those that occur over a period greater than 1 s (second).
Note 2: Jitter, swim, wander, and drift have increasing periods of variation in that order.
See also:
Source: Federal Standard 1037C
- jitter
- swim
- drift
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wander."
Synonyms: WanderSynonyms: betray (v), cast (v), cheat (v), cheat on (v), cuckold (v), digress (v), divagate (v), drift (v), meander (v), ramble (v), range (v), roam (v), rove (v), stray (v), swan (v), thread (v), tramp (v), vagabond (v), weave (v), wind (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deviation | Stray, straggle; sidle; diverge; tralineate; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy. |
Insanity | Rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel; (be imbecile); have a screw loose; Noun: have a devil; avoir le diable au corps; lose one;s head; (be uncertain). |
Journey | Flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate. |
Motion | Verb: be in motion; Adjective: move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander; (deviate); walk; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Wander |
| English words defined with "wander": Aberr ♦ depart, digress, drift ♦ err ♦ forage, Forwander ♦ GAD, gallivant ♦ Itinerate ♦ jazz around ♦ maunder, Miswander ♦ Night hag, Nomadize ♦ Pilgrimize, Prog ♦ sidetrack, straggle, stray, Stroam ♦ The Wandering Jew, To get astray, To go wrong, To knock about, To let loose, To strike out, Tralineate ♦ Vagabondize ♦ Wandered, Wandering spider, Way warden. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wander": Alley, all-frequency jitter, apparent wander ♦ Barefoot, Birds ♦ Hawkubites ♦ Maundrel ♦ Wind. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "wander": Vagissate. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That cat's been like a brother to you. And we're supposed to let it wander the streets without food, shelter, and toilet (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke) We wander the seven seas trying to forget (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I wander what Scooby and the gang are up to (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) Your body madam was a desert that duty forced me to wander in alone (Becket; writing credit: Edward Anhalt; Jean Anouilh) It's there all the time, driving me out to wander the streets, following me, silently, but I can feel it there (M; writing credit: Egon Jacobson; Fritz Lang) | |
Lyrics | I will wander on (Like A Stone; performing artist: AUDIOSLAVE) Yet I still recall as I wander on (More Than a Feeling; performing artist: BOSTON) I wander through the night (Lost Without Your Love; performing artist: BREAD) And grandpa, Let's wander back into the past (Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout The Good Old Days); performing artist: Judds) Now I wander around (Love Takes Time; performing artist: Mariah Carey) | |
Clever | Try not to let your mind wander. It is too small to be out by itself. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | French refugees of war--French civilians of Normandy, France, where the Allied invasion armies are battling the Germans, wander along a road in search of food and shelter, after their houses had been destroyed by the passing tide of battle. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Street Scene" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "While eating lunch on 3rd floor work studio space, i happened to wander over to the window & snap this pic." |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Milton | And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. |
William Hazlitt | Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They began to wander, as chance led them, in the streets |
The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | All that is gold does not glitter, Not all who wander are lost |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Nearly a hundred people have to go out and wander on the roads for your three dollars a day. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Once I was surprised to see a cat walking along the stony shore of the pond, for they rarely wander so far from home |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The person may wander aimlessly or make alarming or unusual gestures. (references) | |
Don’t allow your cats and dogs to wander freely or to capture and eat rodents. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Brazil | In February civil police in Sao Paulo state were accused of torturing 28-year-old Wander Cosme Carvalheiro. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is. |
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| "Wander" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 67.11% of the time. "Wander" is used about 607 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 (infinitive) | 67.11% | 408 | 13,799 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 27.47% | 167 | 24,143 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.1% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 607 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "wander" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Wander | Last name | 200 | 38,864 |
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Expressions using "wander": apparent wander ♦ phase wander ♦ real wander ♦ wander about ♦ wander about the streets ♦ wander around ♦ wander around the town ♦ wander astray ♦ wander away ♦ wander away from the subject ♦ wander back ♦ wander from the subject ♦ wander idly ♦ wander in ♦ wander like a ghost ♦ wander off ♦ wander round and round ♦ wander the world ♦ wander through ♦ wander through the streets. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "wander": wander-lust. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
wander | 31 | springs wander | 3 |
wander wayne | 20 | wander springs golf course | 3 |
indiana wander | 17 | better eyes not wander | 2 |
lost not wander who | 10 | inn wander | 2 |
wander guard | 8 | steve wander | 2 |
boy lucky wander | 8 | linkdomain lust.net wander | 2 |
dark wander | 5 | bird.com wander | 2 |
braga wander | 5 | travel wander world | 2 |
alarm wander | 5 | lost not those wander who | 2 |
i wonder as i wander | 4 | stevie wander | 2 |
lust.net wander | 3 | urlaub wander | 2 |
wildner wander | 3 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "wander"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | swerf (migrate, roam, wander about), afwyk (aberrate, deflect, deviate, diverge, turn). (various references) | |
Albanian | shmangem (circumvent, deflect, depart, deviate, diverge, dodge, duck, escape, eschew, fence, fend off, fight shy of, forbear, funk, give a wide berth, glance, jink, jump, keep one's distance, leapfrog, Miss, Parry, refrain, shirk, shun, sidestep, steer clear of, tergiversate), shëtit (air, have a walk, promenade, ramble, ride, stretch one's legs, stroll, toddle, walk), shëtis (air, have a walk, promenade, ramble, ride, stretch one's legs, stroll, toddle, walk), gjarpëron, endem (blunder, divagate, drift, gad about, itinerate, muck about, range, roam, traipse, tramp, trapes, vagabondize), eci i shkujdesur, dal nga rruga, bredharak (errant, gadabout, gadder, roamer), bredh (divagate, fir, fir tree, gallivant, loiter, ramble, roam, Spruce). (various references) | |
Arabic | تجول (gallivant, get about, knock about, move, peddle, ramble, stroll, swag, tour, wandering). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скитам се (gad about, wilder), разсейвам се (roll away, stray), греша (be wrong, err, make a mistake, misstep, mistake, sin), говоря несвързано (meander, ramble, rave, slummock), отклонявам се от правия път (go astray, go wrong, stray), отклонявам се (break, depart, deviate, digress, dissent, diverge, dodge, oblique, part, run off, stray, swerve, swing, take off, turn aside, turn off), не съм на себе си, мисля несвързано, загубвам интерес, заблуждавам се (err, go astray, stray), лъкатуша (corkscrew, crank, ramble, serpentine, wind), бълнувам (ramble, rave), бродя (range, rove, stray, tramp, vagabond, walk), блуждая (err, range, roam, rove, wilder), преброждам (measure, roam, rove, scour, tramp). (various references) | |
Chinese | 漫步 (Ambled, Ambling, stroll, Strolled, Strolling, Wandered, Wandering), 徘徊 (hover, linger, roam). (various references) | |
Czech | zatoulat se (stray, wander off), toulka (ramble, tramp), putovat (peregrinate, pilgrim), procházka (constitutional, jaunt, ramble, saunter, stroll, walk), procházet se (go through, stroll, walk), mluvit nesouvisle, klikatit se (Crinkle), cestovat (get about, go, itinerate, travel, trek, voyage), blouznit (be delirious, daydream, enthuse, ramble, rave), bloudit (rove, stray). (various references) | |
Danish | strejfe om (roam). (various references) | |
Dutch | trekken (attract, bend, design, drag, draw, haul, limp, make a draft, make a stroke, migrate, pull, roam, tow, tug, wander about), rondtrekken (migrate, roam, wander about), rondreizen (migrate, roam, wander about). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vagi (roam), migri (migrate, roam, wander about), flankeniĝi (deflect, diverge). (various references) | |
Faeroese | fjakka (migrate, roam, wander about). (various references) | |
Farsi | منحرف شدن (Digress, Stray, Swerve), سرگردان بودن (Moon, Straggle, Traipse), اواره بودن (Moon). (various references) | |
Finnish | vaeltaa (migrate, roam, stroll, walk, wander about). (various references) | |
French | vaguer, errer. (various references) | |
Frisian | swerve (roam), swalkje (roam), dwale (roam), doarmje (roam), doale (roam), ôfwike (aberrate, deflect, deviate, diverge, turn). (various references) | |
German | wandern (drift, flit, float, hike, hiking, journey, migrate, peregrinate, ramble, roam, rove, stray, to flit, to wander, tramp, travel, walk, walking, wander about), umherwandern (circle around, drift, roam about, rove, wander around), streifen (binding, braid, brush, brush against, brush past, film, graze, kiss, line, panel, pink, prowl, range, rasher, ray, roam, roam about, scrape, shave, strap, streak, strip, stripe, tab, tape, tape back, tape down, tape up, thread, to streak, to stripe, touch, touch lightly, touch upon, wrapper), irren (be mistaken, be wrong, err, fail, psychotics, roam, roam about, stray, to err, to stray), bummeln (dally, dawdle, dilly dally, gallivant, goof, hang around, idle, idle about, idle around, loiter, poke about, poke around, roam, saunter, slack, stroll, take it easy, to stroll). (various references) | |
Greek | τριγυρίζω (go about, knock about, look round, mill, prowl, saunter). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשוטט (gallivant, hang about, loiter, meander, mooch, perambulate, prowl, range, roam, rove, straggle, traipse), לשוט (cruise, rove, sail), לארוח (travel), להטלטל (be carried from one place to another), לנוע (get about, get around, move, range, rove, stir, tremble), לנוד (move, nod), לנדוד (migrate, roam, rove). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vándorol (hike, migrate, to be on the hike, to drift, to migrate, to trek), csatangol (bump round, loaf, loiter, Maunder, straggle, to fool about, to fool around, to go for a roam, to saunter, to saunter along, to straggle, to stroll, to trapes), bolyong (loiter, to knock about, to knock around, to meander, traipse), barangol (to go for a roam, to range, to rove, to saunter, to spatiate). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ngembara (roam, rove), mengembara (gad, rove, vagabond, vagabondize), mengeluyur, berkelana (roam). (various references) | |
Italian | vagare (divagate, ramble, range, roam, rove, scour, stray). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 遊行 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゆうこう (amity, availability, companionship, effectiveness, fragrance, friendship, merit, validity). (various references) | |
Korean | 방황하십시요. (various references) | |
Manx | wandrail, stravaigey, sthaagey (resistance), rouailley (confusion, delerium, deviousness, incoherence, mix up, prowl, rambling, rave), rouail (prowl, ramble, rove, roving, straying, wandering). (various references) | |
Maya | wadzkalaankil (to wander). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anderway.(various references) | |
Polish | włóczyć się (roam). (various references) | |
Portuguese | percorrer (come, course, make, perambulate, roam, trapes, travel, vagabondize), correrterras (migrate, roam), desviar-se (bend, swerve, veer), desvio da broca (because of heterogeneities in the workpiece, deviation of a hole from the intended path, drift, e.g.), desvio periódico, errar (boggle, err, lapse, make a mistake, miss, roam, straggle, trip, vagabondize), excursão (flight, jaunt, outing, run, sally, sightseeing trip, tour, trip, tripping), flutuação (float, floatage, floatation, flotation, fluctuation, waft, wavering), andar sem destino (meander, trapes), perambular (perambulate, prowl, rove, walk), viajar (coach, go, go away, itinerate, journey, passage, peregrinate, ride, to travel, travel, visit), perder-se (astray, disappear, go astray, lose the day, miscarry, straggle, stray), peregrinar (peregrinate, vagabondize), transmigrar (migrate, roam, transmigrate), vadiar (dilly-dally, drone, fiddle, laze, loaf, maroon, mike, roam), vagabundear (gad, gallivant, hang around, loaf, roam, trapes), vaguear (hobo, knock about, knock around, lounge, maroon, maunder, meander, moon, ramble, range, roam, rove, straggle, stray, trail, vagabondize), vagueie (roam), viagem (access, flight, highroad crossing, itineration, journey, passage, peregrination, run, transit, travel, trek, trip, voyage), passear (perambulate, promenade, saunter, stroll, toddle, walk). (various references) | |
Romanian | vântura (fan, winnow), umbla (circulate, drive, go, go up, journey, leg it, pace, pad, ride, scour, travel, walk, work), se rãtãci (lose, lose one's way, miss one's way, stray), pribegi, pluti (boat, float, navigate, sail, stand off, stand on, swim), ocoli (avoid, cheat, circumambulate, double upon, elide, enclose, eschew, fly, Parry, pass by, pass off, ramble, round, shun, side step), hoinãri (dally, gad, linger, loaf, loiter, loll about, meander, ramble, roam, rove, saunter, scour about, stand about, stroll), devia (deflect, depart, digress, diverge, drift, glance, straggle, swerve, warp), cutreiera (canvass, range, roam, scour), cãlãtori (die, drive, end, fare, itinerate, journey, ride, roam, travel, voyage). (various references) | |
Russian | бродить (divagate, ferment, maunder about, maunder along, moon, perambulate, peregrinate, ramble, range, roam, rove, roved, wandered). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vucarati se (gallivant, roam), vrludati (roam), udaljiti se (depart, digress, estrange, turn away), tumarati (gad about, loiter, lounge, maunder, moon, prowl, roam, saunter), skitati (loaf, ramble, roam, straggle, traipse, truck), potucati se, lutati (moon, ramble, roam, straggle). (various references) | |
Spanish | desviarse (aberrate, backslide, break, deflect, detour, deviate, diverge, sheer off, turn, turn aside, turn off, vary). (various references) | |
Swedish | vanka, vandring (migration, passage, perambulation, peregrination, walk, wandering), vandra genom, vandra (drift, hike, migrate, peregrinate, ramble, trek, walk), tala osammanhängande, slingra sig (equivocate, fence, hedge, loop, meander, prevaricate, quibble, snake, squiggle, tergiversate, trail, twist, weave, wriggle), promenad (esplanade, perambulation, promenade, saunter, stroll, walk, walkabout, walking), irra (go astray, roam), fara (danger, drive, emergency, go, hazard, jeopardy, leave, menace, peril, ride, risk, threat, travel, warning), fantisera (dream, fantasize, romance), förirra (go astray). (various references) | |
Turkish | yolunu şaşırmak (go awry, go off at half-cock), uzaklaşmak (become distant, draw away, grow away from, move away, recede, retire, walk away, walk off, wander away, wander off), sayıklamak, sayıklama (delirium, talking in one's sleep, wandering), sapmak (bear, deflect, detour, deviate, digress, diverge, diverge from, lapse, lead away from, oblique, sheer, sheer away, sheer from, sheer off, slant, stray, swerve, swing, turn, turn aside, turn off, turn up, wander off), kaybolmak (be lost, clear away, die away, die down, disappear, go, go astray, lose, lose one's bearings, lose out, smear, wither), kıvrıla kıvrıla gitmek (snake, wind, wriggle along), gezmek (browse around, get about, go about, hike, itinerate, jaunt, knock about, knock around, perambulate, peregrinate, promenade, range, rove, tour, travel, visit, walk, wander in), gezinmek (bat around, get around, go for a stroll, go for a walk, hang about, hang around, mosey, perambulate, promenade, roam, rove, rove about, stray, stroll, take a stroll, take a walk, walk about, walk around, wander about), dolaşmak (air oneself, bat around, be afloat, become tangled, browse around, circuit, circulate, float, flow, go about, go around, go for a jaunt, go for a stroll, go for a walk, go on a jaunt, hike, itinerate, jaunt, jauntiness, kink, knot, look round, mat, mosey, perambulate, range, roam, rove, stray, stroll, take a stroll, take a walk, travel, walk, walk about, walk around), dalıp gitmek (engulf, fantasize, ruminate), abuk sabuk konuşmak (ramble, rave). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tentemek (roam), seяran etm, gezmek, entreklemek, entemek (roam). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відхилитися, марити (rave, see things), мандрувати (cover ground, gad about, itinerate, peregrinate, pilgrim, roam, rove, travel), мандрівка (travel, travelling), звиватися (meander, serpentine, twine, wangle, wiggle, wriggle, wring), заблудити, заплутатися, збивати з пантелику (cheat, distract, maze, obfuscate), блукати (divagate, moon, prowl, ramble, roam, rove, walk, walk around), помилятися (act amiss, be wrong, do wrong, err, fault, misbelieve, misdeem, mistake), плутати (addle, ball, bedevil, muddle, perplex, snarl). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwibio (flash, flit, gad, rove), crwydro (roam, stray). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | circare, discurre, discurrens, discurrentes, discurrentia, discurrere, discurrerunt, discurrunt, errabat, errabit, errando, errans, errant, errantem, errantes, erranti, errantia, errare, errarent, erraretis, errasse, errat, erratis, errato, erraverit, erraverunt, erravi, erravimus, errent, erret, erro, error, flos, oberraveris, oberraverit, oberrem, vagabantur, vagabuntur, vagantes, vagantur, vagari, vagati, vagentur. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | troller. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 20, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Egeneto de hnika exhgagen me o qeoV ek tou oikou tou patroV mou kai eipa auth tauthn thn dikaiosunhn poihseiV ep' eme eiV panta topon ou ean eiselqwmen ekei eipon eme oti adelfoV mou estin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Postquam autem eduxit me Deus de domo patris mei dixi ad eam hanc misericordiam facies mecum in omni loco ad quem ingrediemur dices quod frater tuus sim |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ond unc gewearð syþþan þæt heo sceolde secgan, þæt heo min swustor wære, swa oft swa wyt ferdeon to fyrlynum eardum." |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And sith God led me out fro the hows of my fadir, I seide to hir, This mercy thow shalt do with me in al place to which we shulen go to; thow shalt sey, that thi brother Y am. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And after God caused me to wandre out of my fathers house I sayde vnto her: This kyndnesse shalt thou shewe vnto me in all places where we come that thou saye of me how that I am thy brother. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt show to me; At every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 20, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Ug nahitabo nga sa gipagula ako sa Dios sa pagsuroysuroy gikan sa balay sa akong amahan, ako miingon kaniya: Kini mao ang kalooy nga imong ipakita kanako, nga sa tanan nga dapit diin kita makaabut mag ingon ka mahitungod kanako, siya akong igsoon nga lalake. |
| Croatian | A kad me Bog udaljio od doma oèeva, rekoh joj: Ovu mi uslugu uèini: kamo god doðemo, reci o meni da sam ti brat." |
| Danish | Og da nu Gud lod mig flakke om fjernt fra min Faders Hus, sagde jeg til hende: Den Godhed må du vise mig, at du overalt, hvor vi kommer hen, siger, at jeg er din Broder." |
| Dutch | En het is geschied, als God mij uit mijns vaders huis deed dwalen, zo sprak ik tot haar: Dit zij uw weldadigheid, die gij bij mij doen zult; aan alle plaatsen waar wij komen zullen, zeg van mij: Hij is mijn broeder! |
| Finnish | Mutta kun Jumala lähetti minut kulkemaan pois isäni kodista, sanoin minä hänelle: `Osoita minulle se rakkaus, että, mihin paikkaan ikinä tulemmekin, sanot minusta: hän on minun veljeni`." |
| German | Da mich aber Gott aus meines Vaters Hause wandern hieß, sprach ich zu ihr: Die Barmherzigkeit tu an mir, daß, wo wir hinkommen, du sagst, ich sei dein Bruder. |
| Haitian Creole | Se konsa, lè Bondye fè m' kite lakay papa m' pou m' al nan peyi etranje yo, mwen di Sara: m'ap mande ou pou rann mwen yon sèvis? Si ou renmen m' vre, tanpri, kote ou pase, se pou di se frè ou mwen ye. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Maka ketika Allah menyuruh saya meninggalkan rumah ayah saya dan mengembara ke negeri-negeri asing, saya berkata kepada istri saya, 'Nyatakanlah kesetiaanmu kepada saya dengan mengatakan kepada setiap orang bahwa saya ini abangmu.'" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka pada sekali peristiwa, tatkala disuruhkan Allah akan daku pergi mengembara dari pada rumah bapaku, bahwa kataku kepadanya: Inilah kasihmu yang boleh kaunyatakan kepadaku; barang di mana tempat kita sampai katakanlah akan daku: ialah saudaraku. |
| Italian | Allora, quando Dio mi ha fatto errare lungi dalla casa di mio padre, io le dissi: Questo è il favore che tu mi farai: in ogni luogo dove noi arriveremo dirai di me: è mio fratello». |
| Maori | A, i ta te Atua meatanga i ahau kia kopiko haere ake i te whare o toku papa, ka mea ahau ki a ia, Ko tou aroha tenei, hei whakaputa mau ki ahau: hei nga wahi katoa e tae ai taua, korero moku, Ko toku tungane ia. |
| Norwegian | Og da Gud bød mig å vandre om borte fra min fars hus, sa jeg til henne: Således må du vise din kjærlighet mot mig: Hvor vi så kommer, må du si om mig: Han er min bror. |
| Portuguese | Quando Deus me fez sair errante da casa de meu pai, eu lhe disse a ela: Esta é a graça que me farás: em todo lugar aonde formos, dize de mim: Ele é meu irmão. |
| Rumanian | Cknd m`a scos Dumnezeu din casa tatqlui meu, am zis Sarei: ,Iatq hatkrul pe care ai sq mi -l faci: kn toate locurile unde vom merge, spune despre mine cq sknt fratele tqu.`` |
| Spanish | Cuando Dios me hizo salir errante de la casa de mi padre, yo le dije a ella: "Éste es el favor que tú me harás: En todos los lugares a los que lleguemos dirás de mí: 'Él es mi hermano.'" |
| Swedish | Men när Gud sände mig ut på vandring bort ifrån min faders hus, sade jag till henne: 'Bevisa mig din kärlek därmed att du säger om mig, varthelst vi komma, att jag är din broder.'" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wander": wandered, wanderer, wanderers, wandering, wanderings, wanderlust, wanderlusts, wanderoo, wanderoos, wanders. (additional references) | |
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"Wander" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awner, awnser, wadder, wadir, wador, Wamwere, wande, Wandel, wandern, wandle, Wando, Wandor, waner, Wanger, Wankdorf, wanker, wanter, weaner, wenda, wenden, wener, windeh, wondern. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wander" (pronounced wÄ"nder) |
| 5 | w Ä" n d er | squander. |
| 4 | -Ä" n d er | blonder, Condor, fonder, ponder, responder, transponder, yonder. |
| 3 | -n d er | Ender, engender, Alexander, asunder, attainder, auslander, Bander, bartender, bender, binder, blander, blender, blinder, blunder, bookbinder, bounder, brander, bystander, calamander, calendar, candor, cinder, cofounder, commander, contender, coriander, cylinder, defender, extender, Fender, finder, flounder, founder, gander, gender, gerrymander, grander, grinder, highlander, hinder, islander, kinder, Lander, launder, lavender, lender, mainlander, meander, minder, offender, oleander, pander, pathfinder, Pinder, plunder, pounder, pretender, rejoinder, remainder, reminder, render, rounder, salamander, sander, sender, Sidewinder, slander, slender, sounder, Spender, splendor, Stander, sunder, surrender, suspender, tender, thunder, tinder, under, vendor, viewfinder, weekender, winder, wonder, Zander. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: warden, warned. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-r-w" | |
-1 letter: awned, dawen, denar, dewan, dewar, drawn, redan, rewan, wader, waned, wared. | |
-2 letters: anew, awed, dare, darn, dawn, dean, dear, draw, drew, earn, nard, near, nerd, rand, read, rend, wade, wand, wane, ward, ware, warn, wean, wear, wend, wren. | |
-3 letters: and, ane, are, awe, awn, daw, den, dew, ear, end, era, ern, nae, naw. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-r-w" | |
+1 letter: prawned, predawn, redrawn, wanders, wardens. | |
+2 letters: answered, danewort, narrowed, predawns, rawboned, swanherd, teardown, underjaw, underway, unwarmed, unwarned, unwarped, wandered, wanderer, wanderoo, wardenry, wrangled. | |
+3 letters: breakdown, daneworts, downgrade, downrange, drawknife, dwarfness, enwrapped, handwrite, handwrote, inwrapped, landowner, lowlander, overdrawn, prewarned, redrawing, rewakened, rewarding, sternward, swanherds, teardowns, unawarded, underjaws, underwear, unwearied, unwrapped, wanderers, wandering, wanderoos, warranted, windbreak, wiredrawn. | |
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