wandering
nounEtymology From wander + -ing.
1
Travelling without preset route; roaming.
2
Irregular turning of the eyes.
3
Aimless thought.
4
Straying from a desired path.
5
In plural Disordered speech or delirium.
- Derived terms
- outwandering
wandering
adjUS /ˈwɑndəɹɪŋ/ · UK /ˈwɒndəɹɪŋ/
Etymology From wander + -ing.
1
Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
- This was the time when Venerable Master Hsing Yun first arrived in Taiwan as a wandering monk and was refused lodgings. He was nearly reduced to begging on the street. Fortunately, the old Venerable Miaoguo of Yuanguang Temple in Chungli took him in.2013, Xuan Pan, Hsing Yun, “When You Stop By the Four Permanent Exhibits”, in Robert Smitheram, transl., Buddha Land in the Human World: The Making of the Buddha Memorial Center, 1st English edition, Buddha's Light Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 64:
2
Medicine, Sciences Of an organ Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.
- a wandering kidney; a wandering liver
- Derived terms
- unwandering, wandering abscess, wandering albatross, wandering cell, wandering dune, wandering Jew, wandering kidney, wandering liver, wandering mouse, wandering nerve, wandering officer, wandering pacemaker, wandering pennant, wandering percher, wandering sailor, wandering sequence, wandering set, wandering spider, wandering tattler