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Strategy
- noun - an elaborate and systematic plan of action
- the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war
Stratify
- verb - develop different social levels, classes, or castes; "Society stratifies when the income gap widens"
- divide society into social classes or castes; "Income distribution often stratifies a society"
- form layers or strata; "The rock stratifies"
- form, arrange, or deposit in layers; "The fish are stratified in barrels"; "The rock was stratified by the force of the water"; "A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses"
- render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand; "stratify seeds"
Straught
- - imp. & p. p. of Stretch.
Stravaig
- unknown - Scots word meaning to wander aimlessly, meander.
Strawing
- verb - cover or provide with or as if with straw; "cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm"
- spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all over the carpet"
Strawman
- noun - a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
- a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted
- an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
Strawmen
- noun - a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
- a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted
- an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
Strayers
- noun - someone who strays or falls behind
Straying
- verb - 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"
- 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"
- unable to find your way; "found the straying sheep"
- wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course"
Streaked
- verb - mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
- marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations; "streaked hair"; "fat legs and dirty streaky faces"
- move quickly in a straight line; "The plane streaked across the sky"
- run naked in a public place