Sekirov Dictionary

strange

/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

adjective 10
verb 3
noun 2
forms 5
phrases 3

adjective10

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not normal or expected, often in a way that makes people feel uncomfortable
- He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
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Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
- I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
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(slang) Outside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
- The future mother of his child was not going out and getting laid by some strange dick. He'd tie her to his bed before he let that happen. — 2021
Not belonging to one.
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Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
- A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark. — 2004
Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
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(no longer used) Belonging to another country; foreign.
- […] one of the strange queen’s lords. — 1595
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(no longer used) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
- I know thee well; / But in thy fortunes am unlearn’d and strange. — 1605
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(no longer used) Reserved; distant in deportment.
- Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when? / You grow exceeding strange: must it be so? — 1596
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(no longer used) Backward; slow.
- 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. — 1607

verb3

(no longer used) To alienate; to estrange.
(no longer used) To be estranged or alienated.
(no longer used) To wonder; to be astonished at (something).

noun2

A strange quark.
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(slang) Sex outside of one's current relationship.
- All he has to do is walk into a bar, and he can get some Strange.'” “Oh yeah, Tom,” I mutter, “that's exactly how it was, every Saturday night. Nothing but Strange. Up here too.” — 2017

forms

stranged · stranging · stranges · stranger · strangest

Phrases with strange

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