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Strange
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- 1 Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
"He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter."
- 2 Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
"I moved to a strange town when I was ten."
- 3 Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar. slang
"When AIDS and Herpes hit the street Talib stopped fucking with strange pussy and stray pussy. Bitches had a ways to go to match Malikah in bed anyway. With her there was that extra element of real love that heightened sex […]"
- 4 Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness. particle
"A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark."
- 5 Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
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- 6 Belonging to another country; foreign. obsolete
"I take goyng thither [to Italy], and liuing there, for a yonge ientleman, that doth not goe vnder the kepe and garde of such a man, as both, by wisedome can, and authoritie dare rewle him, to be meruelous dangerous […] not bicause I do contemne, either the knowledge of strange and diuerse tonges, and namelie the Italian tonge […] or else bicause I do despise, the learning that is gotten […]"
- 7 Reserved; distant in deportment. obsolete
"Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when? / You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?"
- 8 Backward; slow. obsolete
"That to his name your barrenneſſe adds rule; / VVho louing the effect, vvould not be ſtrange / In fauoring the cause; looke on the profit, / And gaine vvill quickly point the miſchiefe out."
- 9 Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. obsolete
"I know thee well; / But in thy fortunes am unlearn’d and strange."
- 10 Not belonging to one.
- 1 not known before wordnet
- 2 being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird wordnet
- 3 relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world wordnet
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A community in King township, Ontario, Canada, named after Frederick William Strange.
- 1 Sex outside of one's current relationship. slang, uncountable
"It was a bar by license, but in hiring practice it became an intergalactic smorgasbord of xenosexual delights, females of fancy species serving drinks and offering cultural exchange to human males seeking some strange."
- 2 A strange quark. countable, particle
- 1 To alienate; to estrange. obsolete, transitive
- 2 To be estranged or alienated. intransitive, obsolete
- 3 To wonder; to be astonished at (something). intransitive, obsolete
"[I]f the world and motion were not from Eternity, then God was Idle; were all the Aſſertions of Ariſtotle, which Theology pronounceth impieties. Which yet we need not ſtrange at from one, of whom a Father ſaith, Nec Deum coluit nec curavit [he neither worshipped nor cared for God]: […]"
Etymology
From Middle English straunge, strange, stronge, from Old French estrange, from Latin extrāneus (“that which is on the outside”). Doublet of extraneous and estrange. Cognate with French étrange (“strange, foreign”) and Spanish extraño (“strange, foreign”). Largely displaced native fremd, selcouth, and uncouth, from Old English fremede, seldcūþ, and uncūþ.
From Middle English straunge, strange, stronge, from Old French estrange, from Latin extrāneus (“that which is on the outside”). Doublet of extraneous and estrange. Cognate with French étrange (“strange, foreign”) and Spanish extraño (“strange, foreign”). Largely displaced native fremd, selcouth, and uncouth, from Old English fremede, seldcūþ, and uncūþ.
From Middle English straunge, strange, stronge, from Old French estrange, from Latin extrāneus (“that which is on the outside”). Doublet of extraneous and estrange. Cognate with French étrange (“strange, foreign”) and Spanish extraño (“strange, foreign”). Largely displaced native fremd, selcouth, and uncouth, from Old English fremede, seldcūþ, and uncūþ.
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