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The act or instance of wandering.
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to go for a wander in the park
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The situation where a value or signal etc. deviates from the correct or normal value.
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baseline wander in ECG signals
verb
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To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
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to wander over the fields
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To stray; stray from one's course; err.
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A writer wanders from his subject.
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To commit adultery.
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To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
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Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
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Examples of wanders in a Sentence
Both Talmuds are arranged according to the six orders of the Mishnah, but the discussion of the Mishnic text often wanders off into widely different topics.
The greenshank is a native of the northern parts of the Old World, but in winter it wanders far to the south, and occurs regularly at the Cape of Good Hope, in India and thence throughout the Indo-Malay Archipelago to Australia.
Every Sunday from 6 to noon, Joan wanders around in your town.
The male does not burrow, but wanders freely on the surface of the skin.
Leopards are common, and the tiger wanders to a considerable elevation, but can hardly be considered a permanent inhabitant, except in the lower valleys.
The large cell grows out as a pollen-tube; the second of the two small cells (body-cell) wanders into the tube, followed by the nucleus of the first small cell (stalk-cell).
The tiger is met with only on the lower Amu-darya, except when it wanders to the alpine region in pursuit of the maral deer (Cervus maral).
I have a coyote that wanders across my screen.
The Pennine Way wanders a little uncertainly between the peaty hummocks of Alport, the worst stretches having been provided with flagstones.
Into their world wanders a bored young farmer's wife who provokes a tragedy by playing the sex kitten.
Hewitt, in a terrible haircut, does well when she keeps the English accent low-key, although it occasionally wanders around the country.
The Underland Chronicles series by Suzanne Collins begins with Gregor the Overlander, an adventure book about a boy who wanders through an inner-city underground world.
The light feature can also be useful if your dog wanders away in the dark.
Brown, grey, black, yellow, red, or green, the lenses stay the same shade no matter what intensity of light (or lack thereof) the wearer wanders into.
At a random time once every week, a character named Pascal wanders the beach.
It also is very easy to let your hands simply do the same motion over and over while your mind wanders - and at that point you are not focusing, your senses somewhere else - and therefore, you have left the realm of the sensual.
On the whole, the Kors color scheme rarely wanders into the areas of bold or bright.
In The Hills Have Eyes, a family wanders into a restricted area where the U.S. government had once done nuclear testing.
A path of reason, conjecture and pure symbolism wanders through history with any attempt to resolve the question.
Probably more common is a child who goes to a friend's house in the neighborhood and loses track of time or wanders away in a store.
When I think about paper crafts, for some reason my mind wanders to those big rolls of newsprint that you used to be able to buy all over the place (and still can, it appears, on the Internet, of course).
Blagden (Ber.,1900,33,p.2544), who consider that three simultaneous reactions occur, namely, the formation of labile double salts which decompose in such a fashion that the radical attached to the copper atom wanders to the aromatic nucleus; a catalytic action, in which nitrogen is eliminated and the acid radical attaches itself to the aromatic nucleus; and finally, the formation of azo compounds.
In shape it is an irregular oblong, and it is very difficult to define its boundaries, as at one extremity it wanders into Oudh, while on the south the villages of the state of Rewa and those of this district are hopelessly intermingled.
More than most men, Fenelon "wanders between two worlds - one dead, the other powerless to be born."
He never wanders outside of a certain district, in which he possesses hereditary rights, and maintains a series of camping-grounds which he visits in regular rotation.
She wanders round ok, not hiding or shy or anything....