Strange vs Trick - What's the difference?
strange | trick |
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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(slang) Stylish or cool.
Something designed to fool or swindle.
A single piece (or business) of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act.
An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
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, title= Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
(dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.
* William Shakespeare, King Lear act IV, scene VI:
* William Shakespeare,King John Act I, scene I
A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
(card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
* Alexander Pope
(slang) An act of prostitution. Generally used with turn .
(slang) A customer to a prostitute.
An entertaining difficult physical action.
A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
* 1885 , Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, The Conductor and Brakeman , page 496:
* 1899 , New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Deptartment of Labor, Annual Report :
* 1949 , Labor arbitration reports , page 738:
(nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.
(heraldry) To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words).
* 1600 , Hamlet , , by Shakespeare
* Ben Jonson
To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up'', ''off'', or ''out .
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
* Macaulay
As a proper noun strange
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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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(no plural)trick
English
Adjective
(er)- Wow, your new sportscar is so trick .
Noun
(en noun)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
- the tricks of boys
- (Prior)
- a trick''' of drumming with the fingers; a '''trick of frowning
- The trick of that voice I do well remember.
- He hath a trick of Cœur de Lion's face.
- (Ben Jonson)
- On one nice trick depends the general fate.
- On third trick from 12 m. to 8 am, we have W. A. White, formerly operator at Wallula, who thus far has given general satisfaction.
- Woodside Junction—On 8 hour basis, first trick' $60, second '''trick''' $60, third ' trick $50.
- The Union contends that Fifer was entitled to promotion to the position of Group Leader on the third trick in the Core Room Department.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (something designed to trick) artifice, con, gambit, ploy, rip-off, See also * (magic trick) illusion, magic trick, sleight of hand * (customer to a prostitute) john, see also * (entertaining difficult physical action) * (daily period of work) shiftVerb
(en verb)- You tried to trick me when you said that house was underpriced.
- The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, / Black as his purpose, did the night resemble / When he lay couched in the ominous horse, / Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd / With heraldry more dismal; head to foot / Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd / With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons
- They forget that they are in the statutes: there they are tricked , they and their pedigrees.
- Trick her off in air.
- Tricking up their children in fine clothes.
- They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been.