Stray vs Figurative - What's the difference?
stray | figurative |
Any domestic animal that has an enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.
(figuratively) One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically.
The act of wandering or going astray.
(historical) An area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i.e. "the stray"
To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
* Denham
To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.
(figurative) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
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To cause to stray.
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Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep.
In the wrong place; misplaced.
Metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs".
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Metaphorically so called
With many figures of speech
Emblematic; representative
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* J. A. Symonds
As adjectives the difference between stray and figurative
is that stray is having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep while figurative is metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs".As a noun stray
is any domestic animal that has an enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.As a verb stray
is to wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.stray
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Thames among the wanton valleys strays .
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- 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.
- Hath not else his eye / Strayed his affection in unlawful love,
Synonyms
* deviateAdjective
(-)- a stray comma
Derived terms
* stray line * stray markReferences
Anagrams
* * *figurative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This, they will say, was figurative , and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.
- They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.