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Meaning of "straggler" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STRAGGLER

straggler  [ˈstræɡlə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STRAGGLER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Straggler is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STRAGGLER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of straggler in the English dictionary

The definition of straggler in the dictionary is the people in a group who are moving more slowly or making less progress than the others. Other definition of straggler is the people who are still there after most of the other attendees of an event have left.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STRAGGLER


angler
ˈæŋɡlə
bugler
ˈbjuːɡlə
bungler
ˈbʌŋɡlə
burglar
ˈbɜːɡlə
dangler
ˈdæŋɡlə
eggler
ˈɛɡlə
entangler
ɪnˈtæŋɡlə
giggler
ˈɡɪɡlə
haggler
ˈhæɡlə
juggler
ˈdʒʌɡlə
kegler
ˈkɛɡlə
mangler
ˈmæŋɡlə
shingler
ˈʃɪŋɡlə
sigla
ˈsɪɡlə
spangler
ˈspæŋɡlə
strangler
ˈstræŋɡlə
tingler
ˈtɪŋɡlə
waggler
ˈwæɡlə
wangler
ˈwæŋɡlə
wrangler
ˈræŋɡlə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STRAGGLER

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE STRAGGLER

beagler
boggler
boondoggler
drug smuggler
goggler
higgler
jangler
joggler
niggler
ogler
pingler
smuggler
sniggler
Spengler
squiggler
struggler
tangler
toggler
wiggler
wriggler

Synonyms and antonyms of straggler in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «straggler» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STRAGGLER

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

Translator English - Chinese

落后者
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rezagado
570 millions of speakers

English

straggler
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

घुमक्कड़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المتشرد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отставший
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

straggler
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

straggler
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

traînard
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Straggler
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nachzügler
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

敗残兵
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

낙오자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Straggler
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lộn xộn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தனியாக விடப்பட்டவன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चोरट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

avare
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

disperso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

maruder
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

отставший
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rătăcit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

straggler
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afswerwer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

straggler
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

straggler
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of straggler

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STRAGGLER»

The term «straggler» is regularly used and occupies the 65.409 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STRAGGLER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «straggler» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «straggler» 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 straggler

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRAGGLER»

Discover the use of straggler in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to straggler and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Blue Straggler
Bailey Miller is a 30-something, fairly directionless single female in South Texas whose semi-tragic choices lead her out of Texas to a small mountain town in Colorado, and back again to Texas.
Kathy Lynn Harris, 2012
2
Life and Public Services of an Army Straggler, 1865
Published in 1865, shortly after the end of the Civil War, Life and Public Services of an Army Straggler is a fictional account of the misadventures of Will Fishback, Confederate deserter from Georgia, as he wanders the southern countryside ...
Kittrell J. Warren, Floyd C. Watkins, 2010
3
Straggler's Reef
When Karri delves into her family's past she finds a lot more than she bargained for - a treacherous reef, missing treasure, eerie storms and a ghostly namesake. Adventure, danger and excitement!
Elaine Forrestal, 1999
4
The Natural History of the Birds of Ireland, Indigenous and ...
Gannet. Sum. Vie. FAMILY XL _STERNIDIE (TERNS). GENUs CX.—STERNA ( Tans). 229. Sterna velox. Ruppell's Tern. Straggler. 230. ,, Cantiaca. Sandwich Tern. Straggler. 231. ,, Arctica. Arctic Tern. Sum. Vis. 232. ,, hirundo. Common Tern.
John J. Watters, 1853
5
The Classification of Stars
9.7 Blue stragglers A blue straggler is a globular cluster star which in the HR diagram lies above the horizontal branch, at or close to the zero-age main sequence. If the blue straggler belongs to an open cluster, it can be defined as a star lying ...
Carlos Jaschek, Mercedes Jaschek, 1990
6
Algorithms and Data Structures: 10th International Workshop, ...
We study the straggler identification problem, in which an algorithm must determine the identities of the remaining members of a set after it has had a large number of insertion and deletion operations performed on it, and now has relatively few ...
Frank Dehne, Jörg-Rüdiger Sack, Norbert Zeh, 2007
7
Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States: ...
It is known as that of " stragglers," a " straggler " being one who is absent without leave for a period of not to exceed ten days. In the Navy it is the practice to enter a charge against the man's pay for the full commercial fare, and in the Marine ...
‎1922
8
The Dynamic Option Selection System: Analyzing Markets and ...
One might surmise that a parched straggler wandering in from the desert would be willing to pay much more for the soda than would a shopper making a routine set of purchases. There are several reasons behind this. The first and most ...
Howard L. Simons, 1999
9
New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics II: Ultraviolet ...
... Rosa Gonzalez, Lino Hector Rodriguez-Merino. The Blue Straggler Star Radial Distribution: Clues on Formation Mechanisms Barbara Lanzoni Dipartimento di Astronom ́ıa, Universit`a di Bologna - Via Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna (Italy) ...
Miguel Chavez Dagostino, Emanuele Bertone, Daniel Rosa Gonzalez, 2009
10
Close Binaries in the 21st Century: New Opportunities and ...
Therefore,deep( f > 50%),low-massratio(q < 0.25)over- contactbinarystarsarea veryimportantsource tounderstand the phenomena of Blue Straggler/FK Com- type stars. Recently, 12 W UMa-type binary stars, FG Hya, GR Vir, IK Per, TV Mus, CU ...
Alvaro Giménez, Àlvaro Giménez, Edward Guinan, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STRAGGLER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term straggler is used in the context of the following news items.
1
'Blue Straggler' at Source Festival
With that in mind, Rebecca Bossen's Blue Straggler, the new work's entry under the Festival's Science and Soulmates category, will definitely see changes in its ... «DC Metro Theater Arts, Jun 15»
2
Source Festival: Blue Straggler - engaging and sexy
Rebecca Bossen's new play Blue Straggler uses such questions as a launching pad for her romantic and scientific exploration of what binds two people together ... «DC Theatre Scene, Jun 15»
3
Stack and Straggler
If the checkers in your home board are on the ace point, this is a classic stack-and-straggler position. There is a formula due to Walter Trice for estimating the ... «GammonVillage Backgammon Magazine, Feb 15»
4
NSW is propping up the stragglers: We have the biggest growth of …
THE NSW economy is propping up the nation, recording the biggest growth of all states in the 12 months to September. Treasurer Andrew Constance said ... «The Daily Telegraph, Dec 14»
5
Buffalo herd fights off lions as they try to take down straggler
A video shows the incredible moment a herd of buffalo save one of their own from being devoured from a pack of hungry lions after it became separated from the ... «Daily Mail, Nov 14»
6
SEC has 'straggler' investigations from financial crisis, enforcement …
“I think we still have a couple of straggler investigations from the financial crisis,” Andrew Ceresney, the SEC's enforcement director, told attendees at The Wall ... «MarketWatch, Jun 14»
7
Forgiving Filipinos try to cash in on long-detested Japanese army …
Forgiving Filipinos try to cash in on long-detested Japanese army straggler. April 14, 2014. By MANABU SASAKI/ Correspondent. LUBANG ISLAND ... «Asahi Shimbun, Apr 14»
8
Elk herd video, with 1 straggler, goes viral
(AP) — A Bozeman man's 3-minute video of hundreds of elk hopping a fence and crossing a road east of Bozeman — and the perseverance of one straggler to ... «The Seattle Times, Apr 14»
9
The Straggler's Guide To Valentine's Day
You and your honey made it through breakup season and now it's time for the world's most noxious romantic day of the year: Valentine's Day. With just a week to ... «Gothamist, Feb 14»
10
Japan's last WWII straggler dies at 91
In this March, 1974 file photo, Hiroo Onoda, wearing his 30-year-old imperial army uniform, cap and sword, walks down a slope as he heads for a helicopter ... «Inquirer.net, Jan 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Straggler [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/straggler>. Apr 2024 ».
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