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Meaning of "straggle" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STRAGGLE

Of uncertain origin; perhaps related to strake and stretch.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF STRAGGLE

straggle  [ˈstræɡəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STRAGGLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Straggle is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb straggle in English.

WHAT DOES STRAGGLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of straggle in the English dictionary

The definition of straggle in the dictionary is to go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way; stray. Other definition of straggle is to linger behind or wander from a main line or part.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO STRAGGLE

PRESENT

Present
I straggle
you straggle
he/she/it straggles
we straggle
you straggle
they straggle
Present continuous
I am straggling
you are straggling
he/she/it is straggling
we are straggling
you are straggling
they are straggling
Present perfect
I have straggled
you have straggled
he/she/it has straggled
we have straggled
you have straggled
they have straggled
Present perfect continuous
I have been straggling
you have been straggling
he/she/it has been straggling
we have been straggling
you have been straggling
they have been straggling
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I straggled
you straggled
he/she/it straggled
we straggled
you straggled
they straggled
Past continuous
I was straggling
you were straggling
he/she/it was straggling
we were straggling
you were straggling
they were straggling
Past perfect
I had straggled
you had straggled
he/she/it had straggled
we had straggled
you had straggled
they had straggled
Past perfect continuous
I had been straggling
you had been straggling
he/she/it had been straggling
we had been straggling
you had been straggling
they had been straggling
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will straggle
you will straggle
he/she/it will straggle
we will straggle
you will straggle
they will straggle
Future continuous
I will be straggling
you will be straggling
he/she/it will be straggling
we will be straggling
you will be straggling
they will be straggling
Future perfect
I will have straggled
you will have straggled
he/she/it will have straggled
we will have straggled
you will have straggled
they will have straggled
Future perfect continuous
I will have been straggling
you will have been straggling
he/she/it will have been straggling
we will have been straggling
you will have been straggling
they will have been straggling
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would straggle
you would straggle
he/she/it would straggle
we would straggle
you would straggle
they would straggle
Conditional continuous
I would be straggling
you would be straggling
he/she/it would be straggling
we would be straggling
you would be straggling
they would be straggling
Conditional perfect
I would have straggle
you would have straggle
he/she/it would have straggle
we would have straggle
you would have straggle
they would have straggle
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been straggling
you would have been straggling
he/she/it would have been straggling
we would have been straggling
you would have been straggling
they would have been straggling
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you straggle
we let´s straggle
you straggle
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to straggle
Past participle
straggled
Present Participle
straggling
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STRAGGLE


angle
ˈæŋɡəl
bedaggle
bɪˈdæɡəl
bedraggle
bɪˈdræɡəl
daggle
ˈdæɡəl
draggle
ˈdræɡəl
eagle
ˈiːɡəl
gaggle
ˈɡæɡəl
Google
ˈɡuːɡəl
haggle
ˈhæɡəl
illegal
ɪˈliːɡəl
jungle
ˈdʒʌŋɡəl
legal
ˈliːɡəl
Portugal
ˈpɔːtjʊɡəl
raggle
ˈræɡəl
raggle-taggle
ˈræɡəlˈtæɡəl
single
ˈsɪŋɡəl
struggle
ˈstrʌɡəl
toggle
ˈtɒɡəl
triangle
ˈtraɪˌæŋɡəl
waggle
ˈwæɡəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STRAGGLE

straddleback
straddler
stradiot
Stradivari
Stradivarius
strafe
strafer
Strafford
strafing
strag
straggler
straggling
stragglingly
straggly
straichter
straichtest
straight
straight and narrow
straight angle
straight arm lift

WORDS THAT END LIKE STRAGGLE

boggle
boondoggle
class struggle
for a giggle
giggle
goggle
hornswoggle
jiggle
joggle
juggle
muggle
niggle
power struggle
smuggle
snuggle
squiggle
the class struggle
the struggle
wiggle
wriggle

Synonyms and antonyms of straggle in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «STRAGGLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «straggle» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of straggle
dangle · drift · droop · lag · loiter · ramble · range · roam · rove · sag · stray · trail · wander

Translation of «straggle» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STRAGGLE

Find out the translation of straggle to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of straggle from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «straggle» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

散乱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

straggle
570 millions of speakers

English

straggle
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भटक जाना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

straggle
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

борьба
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

straggle
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পথভ্রষ্ট হত্তয়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

straggle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bertelingkah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

straggle
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ストラグル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

산재
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Straggle
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đi lộn xộn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இங்கும் அங்குமாய்ப் பிரிந்து போ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

झटपट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dağılmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

straggle
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

straggle
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

боротьба
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

straggle
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διαχρονικό αγώνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verspreid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

straggle
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

straggle
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of straggle

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STRAGGLE»

The term «straggle» is regularly used and occupies the 81.976 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STRAGGLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «straggle» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «straggle» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about straggle

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRAGGLE»

Discover the use of straggle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to straggle and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium of Process ...
Mean Projected Range and Mean Lateral Straggle: Low Energy As Ion Implantation To find energy ranges that channeling have much influence on tails of doping profiles and that lateral straggle make an effect on doping profiles at 7° tilt, the ...
C. S. Murthy, G. R. Srinivasan, Scott T. Dunham, 1999
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SRIM, the stopping and range of ions in matter
We calculate the straggle of the incident monoenergetic beam with the TRIM calculations above, steps 1-4, and we find, for example, a straggle of about 2.0 MeV when we degrade protons from 160 MeV to 30 MeV using plexiglas (this comes ...
James F. Ziegler, J. P. Biersack, Matthias D. Ziegler, 2008
3
Mechanical Properties of Structural Films
This program calculates the energy loss of energetic ions in matter using a binary collision approximation (BCA) Monte Carlo simulation program. Table 1 presents the range (Rp) and straggle (ARp) profile for 700 keV protons implanted into ...
Christopher L. Muhlstein, Stuart B. Brown, 2001
4
Physics of Semiconductor Devices: 17th International ...
When straggle (!p) of the devices is increased then the relative channel doping level of the entire channel region with respect to peak position increases. Due to this, the channel barrier height between source-channel increases. Thus, the ...
V. K. Jain, Abhishek Verma, 2013
5
Kinetic Processes: Crystal Growth, Diffusion, and Phase ...
Crystal Growth, Diffusion, and Phase Transitions in Materials Kenneth A. Jackson . There is some scatter in where the ions are located at the end of range. This is known as straggle. There is straggle both parallel and perpendicular to the ...
Kenneth A. Jackson, 2010
6
Comprehensive Semiconductor Science and Technology, ...
Projected range (Rp) and straggle (ÁRp) are the most significant statistical parameters defining ion distribution in an ion–solid interaction process (Nastasi et al., 1996). As discussed earlier, projected range (Rp) is the statistical mean depth of ...
‎2011
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Applications, Tools and Techniques on the Road to Exascale ...
Straggle 1 Straggle every 3 UPC rebalancing UPC UPC rebalancing UPC 32 102,19 60,52 106,64 55,83 64 46,64 34,38 68,53 38,16 128 23,57 16,09 32,73 17,26 256 11,89 8,80 16,09 9,11 512 8,02 5,13 9,62 5,41 32 64 128 256 512 cores ...
K. De Bosschere, Mark Sawyer, 2012
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Nanofabrication Handbook
This will lead to less straggle at the expense of lower implantation depth. The selection of ion mass and energy to reduce straggle is a balancing act that should be approached with the help from simulations. As an example of the problem's ...
Stefano Cabrini, Satoshi Kawata, 2012
9
A Dictionary of the Portuguese and English Languages, in Two ...
To Straggle, v. n. errar, andar| perdido, errante vagabundo, ou separado ; ( fallando principalmente dos soldados que пай vaô na marcha com os de mais). To straggle, lançar muy ta fol ha, muy tos ramos, ou muytas vergonteas compara  ...
Antonio Vieyra, Jacinto Dias do Canto, 1827
10
Fundamental Principles of Optical Lithography: The Science ...
The mean ofthe distribution (the peak of the concentration profile) occursatadepth called the projected range,RpThe standard deviation ofthe depth profileis calledthe straggle, ΔR p.For photoresists, the projected range varies approximately ...
Chris Mack, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STRAGGLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term straggle is used in the context of the following news items.
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School starts back next week
Students tend to straggle in to register as late as the week after Labor Day. Lee County, like most districts, doesn't finalize registration counts until after that ... «Leecountycourier, Jul 15»
2
Nashville a perfect backdrop for Fallstrom family reunion
Dinner is the traditional pizza as members straggle in. DAY 2: It's Sunday. The first visit is to Belle Meade Plantation. There's a guided tour of the Greek Revival ... «Herald & Review, Jul 15»
3
A way out of the city's rotary from hell?
Startled passengers straggle out of a white City Cab van also involved in the crash. Taking in the scene, Oman's mother shakes her head and mutters to herself, ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
4
Falun Gong protest in Gosford
... also destroyed the country in manner of 12 years with ignorance, arrogance and destruction of local culture aim to indoctrinate power straggle, revolution and ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
5
Sunday trading does not mean some things shouldn't be sacred
I've often watched the easyJet city-breakers straggle forlornly around a quiet Belfast on a Sunday morning and wondered that same thing myself. There's only so ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
6
Africa's road to environmental destruction
Today, just a handful of elephants straggle around near the tourist lodges. Rhinos have disappeared completely. "I never dreamed of how much would be lost in ... «Deutsche Welle, Jul 15»
7
Hair-raising collectibles: Celebs' locks sell for a fortune online
A couple of years ago, an auction of a straggle of Michael Jackson's sweat-cured locks was asking $2 000 (R24 000) on the same forum. The fetish continues. «Times LIVE, Jul 15»
8
China's 'Hogwarts' students embrace ancient tradition at graduation
“This castle has boosted the reputation of our academy across the world,” straggle-bearded college head Zhen Zhongyi told AFP as he stood in the brick and ... «The National, Jun 15»
9
Germantown couple serve those who serve us
“They'll try to straggle through as they can in between calls, and sometimes they take it and run with it because they have to keep going doing what they do,” said ... «wreg.com, May 15»
10
Memorial Day Parade Lineup Announced
Parade organizers asked unit commanders to keep pace with the unit in front of you and not to straggle. Units with small children must keep ranks close up. «Westport Now, May 15»

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