strange

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See also Stränge, and strânge

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Middle English strange, from Old French estrange, from Latin extraneus, "that which is on the outside". Displaced native Middle English fremd, frempt (strange) (from Old English fremede, fremde).

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strange (comparative stranger, superlative strangest)

  1. Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
    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. (physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
    • 2004 Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 93:
      A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.

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strange (third-person singular simple present stranges, present participle stranging, simple past and past participle stranged)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To alienate; to estrange.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be estranged or alienated.
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To wonder; to be astonished.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Glanvill to this entry?)

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strange

  1. strangely

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  • IPA: /ˈstrɑŋɡe/

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strange

  1. Inflected form of strang