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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
strange
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a new/cruel/unexpected/strange etc twist
▪ The robbery took a deadly new twist as the robber pulled out a gun.
▪ an unexpected twist in the plot
a strange country (=not your own country)
▪ She was in a strange country, with no friends and no family.
a strange phenomenon
▪ What could explain this strange phenomenon?
a strange sound
▪ I heard a strange sound coming from outside.
a strange/curious coincidence
▪ What a strange coincidence that you were both living in Bangkok at the same time.
a strange/funny noise
▪ What’s that funny noise?
a strange/funny/odd smell
▪ What’s that funny smell?
a strange/peculiar/odd habit
▪ He had a lot of peculiar habits, one of them being to stare at you without blinking.
a strange/unusual incident
▪ Any unusual incidents should be reported to the police.
a strange/unusual request
▪ This is rather an unusual request.
a strange/weird dream
▪ Sometimes I have a strange dream in which I try to speak but I can’t.
by a strange quirk of fate
▪ Years later, by a strange quirk of fate, she found herself sitting next to him on a plane.
complete stranger
▪ a complete stranger
have a sweet/strange etc taste
▪ The soup had a funny taste.
in a funny/strange etc kind of way
▪ In a funny kind of way, the bullying made me a stronger person.
it strikes sb as strange/odd etc that
▪ It struck me as odd that the man didn’t introduce himself before he spoke.
sb's/sth's odd/strange appearance
▪ Children sometimes stared at him because of his odd appearance.
seem important/right/strange etc to sb
▪ Doesn’t that seem weird to you?
smell funny/strange
▪ This place smells funny sometimes.
strange/odd
▪ As we looked at each other I had a strange sensation.
strange/odd/peculiar/funny
▪ The sweets had a rather peculiar taste.
strange/unusual/mysterious etc happenings
▪ There have been reports of strange happenings in the town.
taste funny/odd/strange
▪ These fruit drinks taste a bit funny until you get used to them.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
how
▪ And then she thought how strange it was the Leader did not seem concerned in case she should try to escape.
▪ Then I got dressed and went into the middle room. How strange!
▪ But how strange that he should arrive before her.
▪ How icy, she thought, how strange.
▪ I was what the materialists declared a human to be, an automaton. How strange!
▪ She knelt on the step, and looked up at the altar. How strange, she thought.
▪ I don't think anyone realised how strange it all was for me.
rather
▪ It came in a rather strange form.
▪ Well, that itself is a rather strange tale.
▪ The theory that talk is a mode of transport sounds rather strange.
▪ She would come back with rather strange vegetation.
▪ Many people may think I am rather strange in comparing two horror books.
▪ It made him feel rather strange, rather safe and happy, and as if perhaps all of it were unreal.
▪ This may appear to be a rather strange task to use.
▪ It seems rather strange that, if one does one's job well, one's opportunities are reduced.
so
▪ Three nights ago was so strange.
▪ I had never seen my grandmother looking so strange.
▪ Strange how they can be so strange and then, quite suddenly, so normal.
▪ Is it really so strange that she uses the word conspiracy?
▪ She said: it's so strange.
▪ How could I absorb the language of atheistic materialism and class struggle when it seemed so strange and pernicious?
▪ That was when she understood why he looked so strange.
▪ They were so beautiful, yet so strange.
very
▪ It was a hot day, and I think I must have been half asleep when I noticed something very strange.
▪ Their marriage has been very strange.
▪ Several hours earlier the caliph woke feeling very strange.
▪ We praised everything again and again, though actually the flavors were very strange.
▪ Japetus alone possessed a distinctive geography, and a very strange one indeed.
▪ This second metal was very strange as we could see through it to some mysterious writing and pictures.
▪ Love, apparently, is a very strange, beautifully lit phenomena.
■ NOUN
creature
▪ He simply had no idea what these strange creatures could look like in the flesh.
▪ From there, he studied this strange creature more closely.
▪ What makes us strange creatures tick, Liz, do you know?
▪ But no person could command these strange creatures more than three times.
▪ In Islington strange creatures appear on the streets at midday.
▪ Spinning bodies, eyes popping out of heads, hair standing on end, characters morphing into strange creatures.
▪ Retreating from the strange creature Barbara loses her balance and tumbles over a cliff.
▪ What if this strange creature also stored toxins in its liver?
feeling
▪ While Steve was busying himself John asked him about the bridge and the strange feeling in the cutting.
▪ Many wanted to share their strange feelings of malaise.
▪ It was a strange feeling when four o'clock arrived and the day trippers departed.
▪ It was just a strange feeling and of course the inability to contact anyone in the Shill's room.
▪ For Lisa the experience was a revelation - and a chance to shake off her earlier strange feelings.
▪ I remember the strange feeling I had when I left the square that night, a feeling of finality.
▪ What a strange feeling to be leaving Gateshead, my home for the whole of my childhood!
▪ That strange feeling he had experienced in the hall: had it been repeated on the landing?
land
▪ Many of our people sickened and died, and we buried them in this strange land.
▪ In their place were a strange land, a strange people, and the ever-present possibility of violence and extinction.
▪ The high that resulted produced sensations of flying, often accompanied by fantastic visions of strange lands.
▪ The stranger in a strange land sees more and sees fresh.
▪ With no knowledge of the language or people, he is truly a stranger in a strange land.
▪ He triumphed because he was in a strange land and he knew how to be patient and how to pray.
▪ So they fetched this poor innocent away from his family, across the sea, to a strange land.
▪ What song did the daughter sing-alone, among strangers, in a strange land?
man
▪ Telling her not to speak to strange men would be like asking if the Pope was free on Sunday.
▪ There is a small, strange man in heaven, a head angel, some kind of boss.
▪ He moved away from the strange man, anxious to leave quickly.
▪ Such a strange proposal from such a strange man.
▪ Have I been asleep under a hedge with a strange man not my husband?
▪ ElijahA strange man who prophesies doom for the Pequod.
noise
▪ Then the baby began to make strange noises, and Alice looked into its face again.
▪ But is that worse than strange noises in the bedroom closet?
▪ Some strange noises came from one of the children and Asik thought he must have been in pain.
▪ There were a lot of strange noises like the sound of the refrigerator unit going on and off in the trailer.
▪ Sometimes the Forfarshire's engines made strange noises, and the paddle wheels went round slowly.
▪ Nor had she lost her nerve, as evidenced by her conduct one night when Marian heard a strange noise.
▪ What was that strange noise - Co-ack?
▪ Birds make strange noises in winter in the middle of the woods.
place
▪ It was a strange place, and as he looked up at it now, he shivered.
▪ If Pat Buchanan has a beef with trade policy, Iowa is a strange place to press his protectionist case.
▪ People chose the strangest places to leave their rubbish.
▪ You probably think this is a strange place.
▪ A strange place, cold and sombre.
▪ The definite article was inclined to appear in strange places, and to disappear from other places where it should have been.
▪ It was a strange place, this.
▪ He spent a whole year bumming from friends, crashing in strange places, selling weed with pals to make his bread.
reason
▪ People have fallen in love for stranger reasons, but music has obviously played a central role in their marriage.
▪ An inordinate number of barber shops, for some strange reason, seem to deal in this kind of exchange speculation.
▪ For some strange reason, I slept like a baby.
▪ For sonic strange reason management did not share our insight.
▪ They invent strange reasons for doing so, saying that it has used anti-competitive practices.
▪ He'd obviously set a lot of store by that leg, for some strange reason.
sensation
▪ It was a strange sensation to have them on - more intimate than sleeping with his widow.
▪ The strangest sensation of all was the motion of the room.
▪ In spite of her sore butt and the strange sensation between her legs, she wasn't unduly stressed.
▪ I feel a little curl of strange sensation working its way down from the bottom of my spine.
▪ And all at once a strange sensation came over him.
▪ She was gripped by something else, a truly strange sensation.
▪ It is a strange sensation, but many sense it from time to time: a consuming desire to part with money.
▪ But as we looked at each other I had a strange sensation.
sight
▪ It was no longer a strange sight to see blind men at a spectacle.
▪ When they were all sitting in a row on the top of the wall they looked down and saw a strange sight.
▪ Chesarynth gripped it convulsively at the strange sight of people milling around.
▪ What a strange sight, but even that seemed to belong where it was.
▪ I must have made a strange sight, crumpled up on the floor trying to read that opening paragraph.
▪ For thousands of years, this strange sight has frightened millions, and has been thought to portend evil or calamitous events.
▪ It must have been a very strange sight.
sound
▪ Terms of abuse Many racist words are derived from the strange sounds made by foreigners.
▪ As he paused to let his eyes adjust to the dimness of the nave, he heard a strange sound.
▪ Viewed objectively, these are strange sounds to offer an attacker.
▪ I heard a strange sound coming from the hut, but I could not think what was making the noise.
▪ Ghosts there were, and shadows to frighten a mole, and strange sounds from the few entrances that still remained.
▪ As she felt a desire to scream there was a strange sound in the room.
▪ So much will be strange to it; strange sights, strange sounds, strange everything.
▪ On occasions stones appear to glow, and strange sounds emerge.
thing
▪ And, meanwhile, a strange thing happened.
▪ The strange thing is that they are so few.
▪ Tourists do strange things on the Granada Studios tour.
▪ She wrote: But then a strange thing happened in my sleep.
▪ The other strange thing is that they look happy all the time.
▪ After that, a strange thing happened.
▪ What's the strangest thing a fan has ever done?
▪ Then strange things started to happen.
way
▪ I mean Micky just seemed so nice, so friendly and, in a strange way, so lonely.
▪ I got strange ways of getting off.
▪ In a strange way I felt almost embarrassed that such things were happening in my name.
▪ Admetus had just lost his wife in a very strange way.
▪ He had a very loud, metallic voice, a little like Arsenio's in a strange way.
▪ This kind of irritation grew here and there in strange ways.
▪ But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way.
▪ Surely these folks were great pals but that strikes me as a strange way to show it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a (beautiful/strange/frightening etc) sight to behold
be no stranger to sth
▪ Derek is no stranger to controversy.
▪ Andrew himself is no stranger to the big screen and has featured in several commercials.
▪ B quartet whose self-titled debut has already sold more than a million copies, is no stranger to having hits.
▪ But Tabitha is no stranger to confrontation.
▪ Fien is no stranger to Tormey, who recruited him when he was defensive coordinator at Washington.
▪ His security police are no strangers to intimidation when it comes to striking fear into Ciskei's 850,000 poverty-stricken people.
▪ Leach was no stranger to Niagara stunts.
▪ They are no strangers to controversy.
▪ Toughguy crime novelist Robert B.. Parker is no stranger to the buried life.
cut a fine/strange etc figure
don't be a stranger!
hello, stranger!
strange bedfellows
▪ Mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and megacorporations, not to mention cross-company teams, often result in strange bedfellows.
▪ Rumours say he's co-operating with some strange bedfellows.
▪ Strange bedfellows Adversity - or is it perversity? - certainly makes strange bedfellows.
▪ The Prime Minister has, of course, produced some novel marriages, some very strange bedfellows.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A strange noise woke her up.
▪ a strange noise
▪ Amanda's eyes glowed in a strange way, like a cat's.
▪ Can you check out that strange noise outside?
▪ Gabby is a strange girl.
▪ He's very strange - you never really know what he's thinking.
▪ He seemed to know lots of things about me, but the strange thing is I didn't even tell him my name.
▪ He was a little nervous about moving to a strange country where he didn't know anyone.
▪ His strange behaviour made Teresa suspicious.
▪ I could hear strange voices outside the room.
▪ I had a strange feeling that I'd been there before.
▪ It's strange that you've never met him - he lives in your street.
▪ It was strange that she had had this baby with red hair when both she and her husband were very dark.
▪ It was hard for her, going to live in a strange city where she knew no-one.
▪ Marla has some strange ideas about raising children.
▪ Meryl was lost and all alone in a strange city.
▪ Mum, come quick! There's a strange man coming up the path.
▪ Pearl was a strange girl who never played with the other children.
▪ The strange food made her ill.
▪ You say she's at home? That's strange because she told me she was going abroad for two weeks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Blue speaks her name, in a voice that seems strange to him, and she stops dead in her tracks.
▪ Condemned men often find a strange peace as the hour of their death comes closer.
▪ He looks after the mentally retarded man, Lennie, and their relationship is a strange one.
▪ I thought it was a little strange, and then I remembered the photograph behind his desk in his office.
▪ It was strange, learning to make decisions together.
▪ Ten days in an alien village with a total stranger and her totally strange family.
▪ The description, which I had read in a recent newspaper account, had struck me as infinitely ironic and strange.
II.adverb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a (beautiful/strange/frightening etc) sight to behold
be no stranger to sth
▪ Derek is no stranger to controversy.
▪ Andrew himself is no stranger to the big screen and has featured in several commercials.
▪ B quartet whose self-titled debut has already sold more than a million copies, is no stranger to having hits.
▪ But Tabitha is no stranger to confrontation.
▪ Fien is no stranger to Tormey, who recruited him when he was defensive coordinator at Washington.
▪ His security police are no strangers to intimidation when it comes to striking fear into Ciskei's 850,000 poverty-stricken people.
▪ Leach was no stranger to Niagara stunts.
▪ They are no strangers to controversy.
▪ Toughguy crime novelist Robert B.. Parker is no stranger to the buried life.
cut a fine/strange etc figure
don't be a stranger!
hello, stranger!
perfect stranger/fool/angel etc
▪ A year before he had, but that year had changed him, eliminated the sentiment and made him a perfect stranger.
▪ Again he was a person, no longer a perfect stranger.
▪ Asked to stand guard over good or treasure, they would good-naturedly hand everything over to a perfect stranger.
▪ I was then to ask what people thought about being smiled at by a perfect stranger.
▪ She turned into an expert at coaxing food and lodging invitations out of perfect strangers.
▪ Some oranges in a commune, like perfect strangers, dwell upon their own navels, untransformed.
▪ They put money on the table, too, perfect strangers expressing unmistakable monetary interest in the Tonelli Nation.
strange bedfellows
▪ Mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and megacorporations, not to mention cross-company teams, often result in strange bedfellows.
▪ Rumours say he's co-operating with some strange bedfellows.
▪ Strange bedfellows Adversity - or is it perversity? - certainly makes strange bedfellows.
▪ The Prime Minister has, of course, produced some novel marriages, some very strange bedfellows.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The dog's been acting strange all week.
▪ The downtown streets were strangely empty and peaceful.
▪ Witnesses said the man was carrying a gun and behaving strangely.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strange

Strange \Strange\, adv. Strangely. [Obs.]

Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak.
--Shak.

Strange

Strange \Strange\, v. t. To alienate; to estrange. [Obs.]

Strange

Strange \Strange\, v. i.

  1. To be estranged or alienated. [Obs.]

  2. To wonder; to be astonished. [Obs.]
    --Glanvill.

Strange

Strange \Strange\, a. [Compar. Stranger; superl. Strangest.] [OE. estrange, F. ['e]trange, fr. L. extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See Extra, and cf. Estrange, Extraneous.]

  1. Belonging to another country; foreign. ``To seek strange strands.''
    --Chaucer.

    One of the strange queen's lords.
    --Shak.

    I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues.
    --Ascham.

  2. Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.

    So she, impatient her own faults to see, Turns from herself, and in strange things delights.
    --Sir J. Davies.

  3. Not before known, heard, or seen; new.

    Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
    --Shak.

  4. Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. ``He is sick of a strange fever.''
    --Shak.

    Sated at length, erelong I might perceive Strange alteration in me.
    --Milton.

  5. Reserved; distant in deportment.
    --Shak.

    She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee.
    --Hawthorne.

  6. Backward; slow. [Obs.]

    Who, loving the effect, would not be strange In favoring the cause.
    --Beau. & Fl.

  7. Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange. --Shak. Note: Strange is often used as an exclamation. Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the snow High on the Alps, or in deep caves below. --Waller. Strange sail (Naut.), an unknown vessel. Strange woman (Script.), a harlot. --Prov. v. 3. To make it strange.

    1. To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning it.
      --Shak.

    2. To make it a matter of difficulty. [Obs.] --Chaucer. To make strange, To make one's self strange.

      1. To profess ignorance or astonishment.

      2. To assume the character of a stranger.
        --Gen. xlii. 7.

        Syn: Foreign; new; outlandish; wonderful; astonishing; marvelous; unusual; odd; uncommon; irregular; queer; eccentric.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
strange

late 13c., "from elsewhere, foreign, unknown, unfamiliar," from Old French estrange "foreign, alien, unusual, unfamiliar, curious; distant; inhospitable; estranged, separated" (Modern French étrange), from Latin extraneus "foreign, external, from without" (source also of Italian strano "strange, foreign," Spanish estraño), from extra "outside of" (see extra). In early use also strounge, straunge. Sense of "queer, surprising" is attested from late 14c. In nuclear physics, from 1956.

Wiktionary
strange

  1. 1 Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary. 2 unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience. 3 (context physics English) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness. 4 (context obsolete English) Belonging to another country; foreign. 5 (context obsolete English) Reserved; distant in deportment. 6 (context obsolete English) Backward; slow. 7 (context obsolete English) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. n. (context slang uncountable English) vagina v

  2. 1 (context obsolete transitive English) To alienate; to estrange. 2 (context obsolete intransitive English) To be estranged or alienated. 3 (context obsolete intransitive English) To wonder; to be astonished.

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WordNet
strange

  1. adj. being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has" [syn: unusual] [ant: familiar]

  2. not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house" [syn: unknown]

  3. not at ease or comfortable; "felt strange among so many important people"

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Wikipedia
Strange (TV series)

Strange is a British television drama series, produced by the independent production company Big Bear Productions for the BBC, which aired on BBC One. It consists of a single one-hour pilot episode screened in March 2002, followed by a series of six one-hour episodes broadcast in the summer of 2003. The supernatural storyline involved a defrocked priest's mission to destroy demons.

Strange (comic book)
For Strange, the Doctor Strange related character, see Strangers (Marvel Comics)

Strange is a six-part American comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics under their Marvel Knights imprint. Written by J. Michael Straczynski and Samm Barnes, with artwork by Brandon Peterson, Strange is a re-imagining of Doctor Strange's origin.

Strange (video)

Strange - A Black and White Mode by Anton Corbijn is the second music video compilation by Depeche Mode, featuring the first five Depeche Mode videos directed by Anton Corbijn, released in 1988. Corbijn shot the entire video album in Super-8.

The five videos are mostly in black and white, except for some random megaphones that were colored red. There were the three main singles for Music for the Masses, the final Black Celebration single "A Question of Time", and "Pimpf", the instrumental closer to Music for the Masses. The "Pimpf" video is currently exclusive to "Strange".

Strange

Strange may refer to:

Strange (En Vogue song)

"Strange" was the first single from En Vogue's remix album Remix to Sing, a commercial single was never released, it was only serviced to dance clubs in the US and UK. It peaked at #44 on the U.S. Dance charts.

The song features Maxine Jones and Dawn Robinson on lead vocals.

Strange (Wet Wet Wet song)

"Strange" is a song by Wet Wet Wet, released as the second single from their seventh studio album, 10. It was released on June 2, 1997.

Marti Pellow recorded his own version of the song for inclusion on his 2002 album Marti Pellow Sings the Hits of Wet Wet Wet & Smile.

Title lyric: Strange, strange, strange things are happening to me.

Strange (comics)

Strange, in comics, may refer to:

  • Strange (comic book), a six-issue comic book limited series by Marvel Comics
  • Strange, a Marvel Comics character and one of two characters who together were known as the Strangers
  • Adam Strange, fictional DC Comics superhero
  • Doc Strange, fictional Thrilling Comics character
  • Doctor Strange, fictional Marvel Comics sorcerer
  • Hugo Strange, fictional DC Comics character
  • Strange Visitor, a DC Comics character who appeared alongside Superman
Strange (surname)

Strange, Le Strange or le Strange is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Strange (Reba McEntire song)

"Strange" is a song written by Wendell Mobley, Jason Sellers and Neil Thrasher, and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire as her first release for the Valory label, a sister label of Big Machine Records. McEntire debuted the song on the Academy of Country Music awards the week before its release to country radio. It is the first single from her thirty-third studio album, Keep On Loving You, released on August 18, 2009.

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Usage examples of "strange".

Thus attended, the hapless mourner entered the place, and, according to the laudable hospitality of England, which is the only country in Christendom where a stranger is not made welcome to the house of God, this amiable creature, emaciated and enfeebled as she was, must have stood in a common passage during the whole service, had not she been perceived by a humane gentlewoman, who, struck with her beauty and dignified air, and melted with sympathy at the ineffable sorrow which was visible in her countenance, opened the pew in which she sat, and accommodated Monimia and her attendant.

Supplied by acetylene, this instrument of illumination brought a strange brilliance throughout the living room.

Is it not a strange infatuation to rank the moments of affliction among the evil events of our lives, when these may prove the very means of bringing back our wandering feet to the path which leads to everlasting life?

That employment should be wanted for the people, while one-third of Ireland is as much waste as the woods in Canada, and the rest badly cultivated, not affording half labour, is a strange anomaly.

I did not lose my being, as my father for a while did, my senses were however so overpowered with affright and surprize, that I am a stranger to what passed during some minutes, and indeed till my father had again recovered from his swoon, and I found myself in his arms, both tenderly embracing each other, while the tears trickled a-pace down the cheeks of each of us.

The court and the people were astonished by the strange intelligence, that a virtuous hero, after so many favors, and so many services, had renounced his allegiance, and invited the Barbarians to destroy the province intrusted to his command.

Strange that a fat old man who owned an alligator farm could convince any young woman to come work in the middle of a swamp.

A palace was allotted for his reception, and a niece of the emperor was given in marriage to the valiant stranger, who was immediately created great duke or admiral of Romania.

A strange case turned up at the surgery today, it might be a variant of psychic blindness or amaurosis, but there appears to be no evidence of any such symptoms ever having been established, What are these illnesses, amaurosis and that other thing, his wife asked him.

I had lost the capacity for amazement when I realised that these strange quiverings on the tips of the cervix and even well past it were caused by incredibly long but thin tongues.

He felt strange touches within his body and a rising sexual thrall, along with amazement that he could have so forgot this as to hesitate in raising her from the tank.

And suddenly and most wonderfully the door of the room upstairs opened of its own accord, and as they looked up in amazement, they saw descending the stairs the muffled figure of the stranger staring more blackly and blankly than ever with those unreasonably large blue glass eyes of his.

Perhaps not, but the Ancient of Days has a strange ambivalence when it comes to George Brinton McClellan.

All is ambivalence, all is complicated and strange, and try getting that into a movie.

Puzzling over this farmhold, surely the strangest he had seen, Taran drew closer, dismounted, and as he did so a tall figure ambled from the shed and made his way toward the companions.