Crossword clues for wandering
wandering
- Lose clarity or turn aside esp. from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- Go via an indirect route or at no set pace
- Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- Travelling about without any clear destination
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wandering \Wan"der*ing\, a. & n. from Wander, v.
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.
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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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.
They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
--Heb. xi. 37.He wandereth abroad for bread.
--Job xv. 23. -
To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
When God caused me to wander from my father's house.
--Gen. xx. 1 -
O, let me not wander from thy commandments.
--Ps. cxix. 10.3. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.
Syn: To roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err; swerve; deviate; depart.
Wiktionary
1 Which wanders; travelling from place to place. 2 (context medicine of an organ English) Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions. n. 1 travelling with no preset route; roaming. 2 Irregular turning of the eyes. 3 Aimless thought. 4 straying from a desired path. 5 (context chiefly in the plural English) Disordered speech or delirium. v
(present participle of wander English)
WordNet
n. travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him" [syn: roving, vagabondage]
adj. (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]
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]
having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" [syn: erratic, planetary]
Wikipedia
Wandering can refer to:
- Wandering (dementia)
- Wandering, Western Australia
- Shire of Wandering
Wandering, in people with dementia, is a common behavior that can cause great risk for the person, and is often the major priority (and concern) for caregivers. It is estimated to be the most common form of disruption from people with dementia within institutions. Although it occurs in several types of dementia, wandering is especially common in people with Alzheimer's disease (AD). This can be due to forgetfulness, and also to a frequent need for stimulation.
Usage examples of "wandering".
So that meseems thou mayest abide here in a life far better than wandering amongst uncouth folk, perilous and cruel.
A period of wandering as a nomad, often as undertaken by Aborigines who feel the need to leave the place where they are in contact with white society, and return for spiritul replenishment to their traditional way of life.
There I drank it, my feet resting on acanthus, my eyes wandering from sea to mountain, or peering at little shells niched in the crumbling surface of the sacred stone.
Arums and acanthus and ivy filled every hollow, roses nodded from over every gate, while a carpet of violets and cyclamen and primroses stretched over the fields and freighted every wandering wind with fragrance.
With Delilah and her father sharing the kitchen and Darla waiting tables, Addle had found herself wandering around useless.
How is it possible that any human mind could be persuaded that there has existed in the world that infinity of Amadises, and that throng of so many famous knights, so many emperors of Trebizond, so many Felixmartes of Hyrcania, so many palfreys and wandering damsels, so many serpents and dragons and giants, so many unparalleled adventures and different kinds of enchantments, so many battles and fierce encounters, so much splendid attire, so many enamored princesses and squires who are counts and dwarves who are charming, so many love letters, so much wooing, so many valiant women, and, finally, so many nonsensical matters as are contained in books of chivalry?
Snow drifting down on us, the lights of the tree merry and bright, three men shot to pieces, a bear down, and one heathen whose mind had gone for a long walk, wandering aimlessly in the darkness which had engulfed us all.
This must have been one of his bored days, spent wandering aimlessly through the house with an occasional pause to glance over some possession of his before he grew tired of it and began wandering again.
And Algor was receiving its wandering homeless ones, who were coming home at last.
Vivid orchids and wonderful colored lichens smoldered upon the swarthy tree-trunks and where a wandering shaft of light fell full upon the golden allamanda, the scarlet star-clusters of the tacsonia, or the rich deep blue of ipomaea, the effect was as a dream of fairyland.
They drank one glass of brandy, then two, then three, and old Amable once more began wandering through the assembly.
For months, Dornan had been having god knows what nightmares about Tammy maybe sitting in seven separate garbage bags in a ditch alongside some dirt road in Alabama, or getting married to a red-haired, pompous psychologist, or wandering New York in an amnesiac daze.
The voors needed their godminds to remember their ancestral wanderings and where it was they were going.
At least the Gateway had brought the spinners to the Anointed and not sent them each off to some unexplained destination where they would be forever wandering.
He looked around the room, which was full of plants native to Old Earth: araucaria and cactus and wandering jew, and other green plants whose names he did not know.