strange
suomi-englanti sanakirjastrange englannista suomeksi
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kummallinen, merkillinen, omalaatuinen
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strange englanniksi
Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, of the ordinary.
''He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.''
(circa) (w), ''(w)'', Act IV, Scene 1,http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=muchado&Act=4&Scene=1&Scope=scene
- I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
1674, (w), ''(w)'', Book 9, lines 598-601,https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IX
- Sated at length, ere long I might perceave
- Strange alteration in me, to degree
- Of Reason in my inward Powers, and Speech
- Wanted not long, though to this shape retain’d.
Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
''I moved to a strange town when I was ten.''
(circa) (w), ''(w)'', Act IV, Scene 2,http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=measure&Act=4&Scene=2&Scope=scene
- (..) here is the hand and seal of the duke: you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
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1955, Stout|Rex Stout, "The Next Witness", in Three Witnesses (book)|''Three Witnesses'', October 1994 Books|Bantam edition, (ISBN), pages 48–49:
- She's probably sitting there hoping a couple of strange detectives will drop in.
Having the mechanical property of strangeness.
2004 Frank Close, ''Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction'', Oxford, page 93:
- A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.
Belonging to another country; foreign.
1570, (w), ''The Scholemaster'', London, Book 1,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A21975.0001.001
- I take goyng thither Italy, and liuing there, for a yonge ientleman, that doth not goe vnder the kepe and garde of such a man, as both, by wisedome can, and authoritie dare rewle him, to be meruelous dangerous (..) not bicause I do contemne, either the knowledge of strange and diuerse tonges, and namelie the Italian tonge (..) or else bicause I do despise, the learning that is gotten (..)
(circa) (w), ''(w)'', Act IV, Scene 2,http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=loveslabours&Act=4&Scene=2&Scope=scene
- (..) one of the strange queen’s lords.
1611, ''(w) of the (w)'', (w) 137:4,https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+137&version=KJV
- How shall we sing the (smallcaps)’s song in a strange land?
1662, (w), Diary entry dated 27 November, 1662, in (w) (editor), ''The Diary of Samuel Pepys'', New York: Croscup & Sterling, 1893, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 377,https://archive.org/details/diarysamuelpepy04braygoog
- I could not see the Russian Embassador in his coach; but his attendants in their habits and fur caps very handsome, comely men (..) But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
Reserved; distant in deportment.
(circa) (w), ''(w)'', Act I, Scene 1,http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=merchantvenice&Act=1&Scene=1&Scope=scene
- Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when?
- You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?
1850, (w), ''(w)'', Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Chapter 19, p. 253,https://archive.org/details/scarletletterrom01hawt
- She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee!
Backward; slow.
1621, (w) and (w), ''(w)'', London: Thomas Walkley, Act III, Scene 1,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00968.0001.001
- (..) to his name your barrennesse adds rule;
- Who louing the effect, would not be strange
- In fauoring the cause; looke on the profit,
- And gaine will quickly point the mischiefe out.
Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
(circa) (w), ''(w)'', Act IV, Scene 3,http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=timonathens&Act=4&Scene=3&Scope=scene
- I know thee well;
- But in thy fortunes am unlearn’d and strange.
Not belonging to one.
To wonder; to be astonished (''at'' something).
1661, (w), ''The Vanity of Dogmatizing'', London: Henry Eversden, Chapter 19, p. 184,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42833.0001.001
- these were all the Assertions of ''Aristotle'', which ''Theology'' pronounceth impieties. Which yet we need not strange at from one, of whom a Father saith, ''Nec Deum coluit nec curavit'' neither worshipped nor cared for God:
2013 "Taming Strange" (episode of ''South Park'' TV series)
- Ike: Yeah, for my cool cool trick I'm gonna tame Foofa's strange.
- Plex: Tame mo-what?
- Ike: I can tame Foofa's strange, bro.
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