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stratum n. 1 layer, level, stratification, table, vein, seam; plane:
These coal strata have been mined for hundreds of years. 2
level, caste, class, rank, station, standing, status, bracket,
group, estate: She married someone from a higher stratum of
society.
stray v. 1 wander, roam, rove, range, straggle, drift, meander: They
found the ponies straying up the valley and across the moor. 2
deviate, diverge, wander, digress, ramble, divagate, get or go
off the track or subject, go off on or at a tangent, get
sidetracked: She let her mind stray from the matter in hand.
--n. 3 straggler, vagrant, waif, US dogie: They have always
taken in and cared for strays.
--adj. 4 vagrant, lost, roving, roaming, wandering, homeless,
derelict, abandoned: The problem with stray pets increases when
people abandon them on returning home after the summer. 5
random, casual, chance, accidental, haphazard, singular, freak,
accidental, unexpected: A stray bullet caught him in the leg.
6 isolated, separate(d), lone, odd, single: She brushed a stray
hair from her face.
streak n. 1 stripe, striation, strip, stroke, bar, band, line, mark,
smear, slash, dash, touch, daub, fleck, trace; vein, layer,
seam, stratum: The male bird is marked with a streak of bright
reddish-orange on its throat. A red streak marks the iron
deposit. 2 flash, bolt: I saw the dark figure in the light from
a streak of lightning. 3 spell, spate, period, stretch, run:
They were celebrating their streak of good luck at the roulette
table.
--v. 4 stripe, striate, line, bar, mark, smear, daub, slash:
Dawn was beginning to streak the sky when she left the party. 5
race, run, rush, dash, sprint, dart, hurtle, fly, scoot, speed,
hasten, hurry, tear, whistle, zip, zoom, Colloq whiz or whizz:
The gang streaked through the village on their motor cycles and
were gone.
stream n. 1 brook, brooklet, streamlet, rivulet, tributary, river,
freshet, run, watercourse, waterway, channel, Chiefly literary
rill, runnel, Literary or N Brit dialect beck, burn, Archaic NE