Found 3 items, similar to wandering.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: wandering
pengelanaan, pengembaraan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: wandering
wandering
n : travelling about without any clear destination;
“she
followed him in his wanderings and looked after him”
[syn:
roving,
vagabondage]
wandering
adj 1: (of groups of people) tending to travel and change
settlements frequently;
“a restless mobile society”;
“the nomadic habits of the Bedouins”;
“believed the
profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy
future”;
“wandering tribes” [syn:
mobile,
nomadic,
peregrine,
roving]
2: of a path e.g.;
“meandering streams”;
“rambling forest
paths”;
“the river followed its wandering course”;
“a
winding country road” [syn:
meandering(a),
rambling,
wandering(a),
winding]
3: having no fixed course;
“an erratic comet”;
“his life
followed a wandering course”;
“a planetary vagabond” [syn:
erratic,
planetary]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Wandering
Wandering
\Wan"der*ing\,
a. & n. from
Wander, v.
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Wandering albatross (Zo["o]l.), the great white albatross.
See Illust. of
Albatross.
Wandering cell (Physiol.), an animal cell which possesses
the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white
corpuscles of the blood.
Wandering Jew (Bot.), any one of several creeping species
of
Tradescantia, which have alternate, pointed leaves,
and a soft, herbaceous stem which roots freely at the
joints. They are commonly cultivated in hanging baskets,
window boxes, etc.
Wandering kidney (Med.), a morbid condition in which one
kidney, or, rarely, both kidneys, can be moved in certain
directions; -- called also
floating kidney,
movable kidney
.
Wandering liver (Med.), a morbid condition of the liver,
similar to wandering kidney.
Wandering mouse (Zo["o]l.), the whitefooted, or deer,
mouse. See Illust. of
Mouse.
Wandering spider (Zo["o]l.), any one of a tribe of spiders
that wander about in search of their prey.
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Wander
\Wan"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Wandered; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Wandering.] [OE. wandren, wandrien, AS. wandrian; akin
to G. wandern to wander; fr. AS. windan to turn. See
Wind
to turn.]
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1. To ramble here and there without any certain course or
with no definite object in view; to range about; to
stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
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They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
--Heb. xi. 37.
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He wandereth abroad for bread. --Job xv. 23.
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2. To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go
astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
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When God caused me to wander from my father's house.
--Gen. xx. 13.
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O, let me not wander from thy commandments. --Ps.
cxix. 10.
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3. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason;
to rave; as, the mind wanders.
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Syn: To roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err;
swerve; deviate; depart.
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