Stranges vs Estranges - What's the difference?
stranges | estranges |
(strange)
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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(estrange)
To cause to feel less close or friendly; alienate. To cease contact with (particularly of a family member or spouse, especially in form estranged).
To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations.
As verbs the difference between stranges and estranges
is that stranges is third-person singular of strange while estranges is third-person singular of estrange.stranges
English
Verb
(head)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)