strange
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See also Stränge
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
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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[edit] Adjective
strange (comparative stranger, superlative strangest)
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- Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
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- He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
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- Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
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- I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
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- (physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
- 2004: A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark. — Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004, p. 93)
[edit] Synonyms
- (not normal): bizarre, odd, out of the ordinary, peculiar, queer, singular, weird
- (not part of one's experience): new, unfamiliar, unknown
- See also Wikisaurus:strange
[edit] Antonyms
- (not normal): everyday, normal, regular (especially US), standard, usual, unsurprising
- (not part of one's experience): familiar, known
[edit] Derived terms
- for some strange reason
- like a cat in a strange garret
- strange as it may seem
- strangelet
- strange matter
- strange quark
- strangely
- strangeness
- strangeonium
- stranger things happen at sea, stranger things have happened at sea
- strange to say
- truth is stranger than fiction
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[edit] Translations
not normal
not yet part of one’s experience
in quantum mechanics
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strange
[edit] Old English
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈstrɑŋge/
[edit] Adjective
strange
- Inflected form of strang.