wander

verb

1. (intransitive)To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.

   “to wander over the fields”

   “They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.”

   ““A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.”

   “There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.”

2. (intransitive)To stray; stray from one's course; err.

   “A writer wanders from his subject.”

   “O, let me not wander from thy commandments.”

3. (intransitive)To commit adultery.
4. (intransitive)To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
5. (intransitive)Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

noun

1. (countable)An act or instance of wandering.

   “to go for a wander in the park”

2. (uncountable)Deviation from a correct or normal value.

   “baseline wander in ECG signals”

name

1. A surname.