Dictionary Definition
wander
Verb
1 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" [syn: roll, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]
2 be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in
marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be
wandering?" [syn: cheat on,
cheat, cuckold, betray]
3 go via an indirect route or at no set pace;
"After dinner, we wandered into town"
4 to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral,
or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path
meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders
through the entire body" [syn: weave, wind, thread, meander]
5 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" [syn:
digress, stray, divagate]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
wandrian.Pronunciation
- Rhymes with: -ɒndə(r)
Noun
- The act or instance of wandering.
- To go for a wander
Translations
act or instance of wandering
- Czech: toulka
Verb
- To move without purpose; often in search of livelihood.
- To commit adultery.
- To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
- Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
move without purpose
- Czech: toulat se
- Dutch: zwerven, rondtrekken
- Finnish: vaeltaa, vaellella, samota, harhailla, hortoilla
- French: errer
- German: umherstreifen, umherstreichen, herumziehen, stromern, zigeunern
- Italian: errare
- Lao: (lö')
- Latin: vagari
- Old English: scriþan
- Portuguese: vagar
- Spanish: vagar, errar, deambular
- Swedish: vanka
commit adultery
- Dutch: vreemdgaan
- Finnish: tehdä huorin (religious), tehdä aviorikos, olla uskoton
- German: fremdgehen, einen Seitensprung tun
- Spanish: engañar, aventurar
go somewhere indirectly
- Finnish: kierrellä, kaarrella, vaeltaa
- German: wandeln, umherschweifen
- Old English: scriþan
- Spanish: peregrinar
of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of
argument or attention
- Dutch: afdwalen
- Finnish: harhailla
- German: abschweifen
Extensive Definition
In telecommunication,
wander are long-term random variations of the significant instants
of a digital
signal from their ideal positions. Phase variations with a
frequency content above 10 Hz are considered
jitter, while those with
a frequency below 10
Hz are referred to as wander.http://documents.exfo.com/appnotes/anote119-ang.pdf
Wander variations are those that occur over a period greater than 1 s
(second). Jitter, swim,
wander, and drift
have increasing periods of
variation in that order.
See also
wander in Polish: Wander
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
amble,
babble, bat, bat around, be absent, be in
error, be insane, be mistaken, be wrong, boom, bum, circumambulate, count
ties, daydream,
depart, deviate, digress, divagate, diverge, dote, dream, drift, drivel, drool, err, excurse, fall into error,
fantasy, flit, gad, gad about, gallivant, get sidetracked, go
about, go adrift, go amiss, go astray, go awry, go the rounds, go
woolgathering, go wrong, have a demon, hit the road, hit the trail,
hobo, jaunt, knock about, knock around,
lapse, maunder, meander, misbelieve, miscalculate, mooch, moon, muse, nomadize, peregrinate, pererrate, pipe-dream,
project, prowl, rage, ramble, range, rant, rave, roam, roll, rove, run about, run amok, run mad,
saunter, serve Mammon,
slaver, slip, slip up, slobber, snake, stargaze, straggle, stray, stroll, stumble, trail, traipse, tramp, trip, turn aside, twist, twist and turn, vagabond, vagabondize, walk the
tracks, wayfare,
wind