stray

As nouns the difference between stray and strat

is that stray is any domestic animal that has an enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray while strat is (informal) a (fender stratocaster) electric guitar.

As a verb stray

is to wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

As an adjective stray

is having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep.

As nouns the difference between spray and stray

is that spray is spray while 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.

As an adjective stray is

having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep.

In lang=en terms the difference between stay and stray

is that stay is to continue to have a particular quality while stray is to cause to stray.

As nouns the difference between stay and stray

is that stay is (nautical) a strong rope supporting a mast, and leading from the head of one mast down to some other, or other part of the vessel or stay can be a prop; a support while 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 verbs the difference between stay and stray

is that stay is (nautical) to incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays or stay can be to prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady while stray is to wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

As adjectives the difference between stay and stray

is that stay is steep; ascending while stray is having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep.

As an adverb stay

is steeply.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and stray

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while 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.

As an adjective stray is

having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep.

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.

In lang=en terms the difference between stray and sidetrack

is that stray is to cause to stray while sidetrack is to deviate briefly from the topic at hand.

As nouns the difference between stray and sidetrack

is that stray is any domestic animal that has an enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray while sidetrack is (rail transport) a second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction); a railroad siding.

As verbs the difference between stray and sidetrack

is that stray is to wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way while sidetrack is to divert (a locomotive) on to a lesser used track in order to allow other trains to pass.

As an adjective stray

is having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep.

Errant is a synonym of stray.

As adjectives the difference between stray and errant

is that stray is having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep while errant is straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits.

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.

In intransitive terms the difference between stray and stagger

is that stray is to wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray while stagger is to begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.

In transitive terms the difference between stray and stagger

is that stray is to cause to stray while stagger is multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).

As an adjective stray

is having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep.

As nouns the difference between stray and aberrant

is that stray is any domestic animal that has an enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray while aberrant is a person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.

As adjectives the difference between stray and aberrant

is that stray is having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep while aberrant is differing from the norm .

As a verb stray

is to wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

As verbs the difference between stray and miswander

is that stray is to wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way while miswander is (obsolete) to wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray.

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 an adjective stray

is having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep.