Strange vs Stray - What's the difference?
strange | stray |
Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary.
* Milton
Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
* Shakespeare
* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, pages 48–49:
(physics) Having the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
* 2004 Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford, page 93:
(obsolete) Belonging to another country; foreign.
* Shakespeare
* Ascham
(obsolete) Reserved; distant in deportment.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Backward; slow.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(obsolete) Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To alienate; to estrange.
(obsolete) To be estranged or alienated.
(obsolete) To wonder; to be astonished.
(slang, uncountable) vagina
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Any domestic animal that has an enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.
(figuratively) One who is lost, either literally or metaphorically.
The act of wandering or going astray.
(historical) An area of common land or place administered for the use of general domestic animals, i.e. "the stray"
To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
* Denham
To wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.
(figurative) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
* November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, "
To cause to stray.
* 1591 , , V. i. 51:
Having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep.
In the wrong place; misplaced.
As a proper noun strange
is .As a noun stray is
any domestic animal that has an enclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.As a verb stray is
to wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.As an adjective stray is
having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a stray horse or sheep.strange
English
Adjective
(er)- He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
- Sated at length, erelong I might perceive / Strange alteration in me.
- 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.
- She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in.
- A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.
- one of the strange queen's lords
- I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues.
- She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee.
- (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
- Who, loving the effect, would not be strange / In favouring the cause.
- In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange .
Synonyms
* (not normal) bizarre, fremd, odd, out of the ordinary, peculiar, queer, singular, unwonted, weird * (qualifier, not part of one's experience): new, unfamiliar, unknown * See alsoAntonyms
* (not normal) everyday, normal, regular (especially US), standard, usual, unsurprising * (qualifier, not part of one's experience): familiar, knownDerived terms
* for some strange reason * like a cat in a strange garret * strange as it may seem * strange bird * 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 fictionVerb
(strang)- (Glanvill)
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* 1000 English basic wordsNoun
(no plural)stray
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Thames among the wanton valleys strays .
Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- It was a derby that left Manchester United a long way back in Manchester City’s wing-mirrors and, in the worst moments, straying dangerously close to being their own worst enemy.
- Hath not else his eye / Strayed his affection in unlawful love,
Synonyms
* deviateAdjective
(-)- a stray comma