strange
AdjektivVerbSubstantivTop 1 000 in Filmdialogen
- //stɹeɪnd͡ʒ//
- /[stɹeɪnd͡ʒ]/
Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
Adjektiv
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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.
I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
Sated at length, ere long I might perceave / Strange alteration in me, to degree / Of Reason in my inward Powers, and Speech / Wanted not long, though to this shape retain’d.
When you're strange / Faces come out of the rain / When you're strange / No one remembers your name
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Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
[…] here is the hand and seal of the duke: you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
'I'm sure I should have never mentioned anything of the kind to three strange gentlemen if you hadn't dragged it out of me.'
She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in.
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SlangOutside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
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 […]
Arnett might have come to Boston to eat baked beans, get some strange ass, or stick up the First New England Trust, the motive mattered little to him—whatever the boss wanted to do was jake-okay by him. Besides, being on overtime for ...
"You just need some strange dick, that's all.” Maureen rolled her eyes and gave her friend an exasperated look. “I'm a married woman, Catty.” “Uh-huh! I knew somethin' like this was goin' to happen after you married Mel."
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.
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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.
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Of an attractor: having a fractal structure.
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veraltetBelonging to another country; foreign.
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 […]
[…] one of the strange queen’s lords.
How shall we sing the Lords song: in a strange land?
I could not see the [Russian] Embassador in his coach; but his attendants in their habits and fur caps very handsome, comely men […] But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
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veraltetReserved; distant in deportment.
Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when? / You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?
She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee!
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veraltetBackward; 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.
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veraltetNot familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
I know thee well; / But in thy fortunes am unlearn’d and strange.
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Not belonging to one.
Herkunft
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros Proto-Italic *eksteros Latin exter Latin extrā Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos Proto-Italic *-eos Latin -eus Latin -āneus Latin extrāneusder. Old French estrange Anglo-Norman estraungebor. Middle English straunge English strange 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.
Verb
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veraltetTo alienate; to estrange.
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veraltetTo be estranged or alienated.
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veraltetTo wonder; to be astonished at (something).
[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]: […]
Substantiv
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SlangSex outside of one's current relationship.
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.
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.”
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A strange quark.
Formen
- Plural
- stranges
- Komparativ
- stranger
- Superlativ
- strangest
- Präteritum
- stranged
- Partizip II
- stranged
- Partizip I
- stranging
- 3. Person Singular
- stranges
strange · Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
Strange · A surname.strangely · In a strange or coincidental manner.stranger · A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a…