Four vs Stranger - What's the difference?
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(cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
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Describing a set or group with four components.
(countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
(countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
A person who is four years old.
(cricket, countable) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
(rowing) Quadruple sculls.
(obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
* 1887 , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet , IV:
(strange)
* Truth is stranger than fiction. (English proverb)
A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
An outsider or foreigner.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I am a most poor woman and a stranger , / Born out of your dominions.
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*:Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, / And strangers to the sun yet ripen here.
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A newcomer.
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, title= (lb) One who has not been seen for a long time.
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(lb) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:To honour and receive / Our heavenly stranger .
(lb) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
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As nouns the difference between four and stranger
is that four is (countable) the digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof while stranger is a person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.As a numeral four
is (cardinal) a numerical value equal to ; the number after three and before five; two plus two this many dots (••••).As an adjective stranger is
(strange).As a verb stranger is
(obsolete|transitive) to estrange; to alienate.four
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(wikipedia four)Numeral
(head)- There are four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.
- Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four —on up to sixteen.
Derived terms
* on all fours * back four * four-bagger * four-ball * four-by-four/ * four-color/four-colour * four-dimensional * four-eyes * four-flush * fourfold * fourfooted/four-footed * four-handed * four horsemen * four hundred * four-in-hand * four-leaf clover * four-letter word * fourling * four-o'clock * four of a kind * four-on-the-floor * fourpence * fourpenny * fourplex * four-post bed * four-poster * four-pounder * fourscore * foursquare * four square * foursome * four-star * four-wheel drive * four-wheeler * two-by-fourDescendants
See also
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* Last: three, 3 * Next: five, 5Noun
- Do you have any more fours ? I want to make this a little taller.
- I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.
- I was a-strollin' down, thinkin' between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house.
See also
(four) * (Symbols of number four in various numeral systems) * (Arabic numerals): 4 * (Chinese numerals): ?, ? * (Greek numerals): (uppercase) ??, (lowercase) ?? * (Roman numerals): IV or IIIIStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----stranger
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Adjective
(head)Derived terms
* See strangeNoun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger' s mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}