Stringer vs Stranger - What's the difference?
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Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
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Someone who leads someone along.
A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel
A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.
(surfing) Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
A hard-hit ball.
(fishing) A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
A pallet or skid used when shipping LTL [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less-Than-Truckload_(LTL)_Shipping] freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.
(obsolete) A libertine; a wencher.
(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 stringer and stranger
is that stringer is someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows while stranger is a person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.As an adjective stranger is
(strange).As a verb stranger is
(obsolete|transitive) to estrange; to alienate.stringer
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Noun
(en noun)- Be content to put your trust in honest stringers .
- Line up the 1/2 template with the stringer (or draw a center line) — Stephen Pirsch [http://www.surfersteve.com/shaping.htm]
- Janice pulled the bluegill out of the water and added it to her stringer .
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
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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.}}