centrifugal vs stray

centrifugal

adj
  • Tending, or causing, to recede from the center. 

  • Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster. 

  • Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos. 

noun
  • A rotating machine used to separate massecuite into sugar crystals and molasses. 

stray

adj
  • In the wrong place; misplaced. 

  • Having gone astray; strayed; wandering 

verb
  • To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray. 

  • To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err. 

  • To cause to stray; lead astray. 

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

noun
  • An area of common land for use by domestic animals generally. 

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

  • An instance of atmospheric interference. 

  • One who is lost, literally or figuratively. 

  • An act of wandering off or going astray. 

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