Noun

• S: (n) stray (an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal))

Verb

• S: (v) roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond (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"; "They rolled from town to town"
• S: (v) stray, err, drift (wander from a direct course or at random) "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course"
• S: (v) digress, stray, divagate, wander (lose clarity or turn aside especially 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"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) tell (let something be known) "Tell them that you will be late"
• S: (v) inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to) "I informed him of his rights"
• S: (v) communicate, intercommunicate (transmit thoughts or feelings) "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist"
• S: (v) interact (act together or towards others or with others) "He should interact more with his colleagues"
• S: (v) act, move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)) "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame

Adjective

• S: (adj) isolated, stray (not close together in time) "isolated instances of rebellion"; "a few stray crumbs"
• S: (adj) stray ((of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home) "a stray calf"; "a stray dog"