Err vs. Stray — What's the Difference?

Be mistaken or incorrect; make a mistake

Move away aimlessly from a group or from the right course or place

To make an error or misjudgment

Not in the right place; separated from the group or target

To commit an act that is wrong; do wrong.

(of a physical quantity) arising as a consequence of the laws of physics, but unwanted and usually having a detrimental effect on the operation of equipment

(Archaic) To stray.

A stray person or thing, especially a domestic animal.

To make a mistake.

Electrical phenomena interfering with radio reception.

(intransitive) To sin.

To move away from a group, deviate from a course, or escape from established limits

(archaic) to stray.

To move without a destination or purpose; wander

To wander; to roam; to stray.

To be directed without apparent purpose; look in an idle or casual manner

To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.

To follow a winding or erratic course

To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.

To act contrary to moral or proper behavior, especially in being sexually unfaithful

To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.

To become diverted, as from a subject or train of thought

To offend, as by erring.

One that has strayed, especially a domestic animal wandering about.

To make a mistake or be incorrect

Straying or having strayed; wandering or lost

Wander from a direct course or at random;

Scattered or separate

Any domestic animal that has no enclosure nor proper place and company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.

One who is lost, literally or figuratively.

An act of wandering off or going astray.

(historical) An area of common land for use by domestic animals generally.

(radio) An instance of atmospheric interference.

(intransitive) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

(intransitive) To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.

(intransitive) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.

(transitive) To cause to stray; lead astray.

Having gone astray; strayed; wandering

In the wrong place; misplaced.

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

To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.

Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.

To cause to stray.

Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep.

Any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray. Used also figuratively.

The act of wandering or going astray.

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Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;

Wander from a direct course or at random;

Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking;

Not close together in time;