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Word: Strange
Speech Type: Adjective
Middle English: shortening of Old French estrange, from Latin extraneus ‘external, strange’
streɪn(d)ʒ
unusual or surprising; difficult to understand or explain
Short Definition:unusual or surprising
Examples:- children have some strange ideas
- he's a very strange man
- it is strange how things change
not previously visited, seen, or encountered; unfamiliar or alien
Short Definition:not previously visited or encountered
Examples:- she was lost in a strange country
- a harsh accent that was strange to his ears
denoting or involving a flavour (variety) of unstable quark having an electric charge of -1/3. Strange quarks have similar properties to down quarks and bottom quarks, but are distinguished from them by having an intermediate mass.
Short Definition:denoting variety of quark
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