anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
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an individual that one is not acquainted with
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Strange \Strange\, a. [Compar. {Stranger}; superl. {Strangest}.] [OE. estrange, F. ['e]trange, fr. L. extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See {Extra}, and cf. {Estrange}, {Extraneous}.] 1. Belonging to another country; foreign. ``To seek strange strands.'' --Chaucer.
One of the strange queen's lords. --Shak.
I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. --Ascham.
2. Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.
So she, impatient her own faults to see, Turns from herself, and in strange things delights. --Sir J. Davies.
3. Not before known, heard, or seen; new.
Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you. --Shak.
4. Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. ``He is sick of a strange fever.'' --Shak.
Sated at length, erelong I might perceive Strange alteration in me. --Milton.
5. Reserved; distant in deportment. --Shak.
She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee. --Hawthorne.
6. Backward; slow. [Obs.]
Who, loving the effect, would not be strange In favoring the cause. --Beau. & Fl.
7. Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange. --Shak.
Note: Strange is often used as an exclamation.
Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the snow High on the Alps, or in deep caves below. --Waller.
{Strange sail} (Naut.), an unknown vessel.
{Strange woman} (Script.), a harlot. --Prov. v. 3.
{To make it strange}. (a) To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning it. --Shak. (b) To make it a matter of difficulty. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{To make strange}, {To make one's self strange}. (a) To profess ignorance or astonishment. (b) To assume the character of a stranger. --Gen. xlii. 7.
Stranger \Stran"ger\, n. [OF. estrangier, F. ['e]tranger. See {Strange}.] 1. One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. Specifically: (a) One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.
I am a most poor woman and a stranger, Born out of your dominions. --Shak. (b) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country. (c) One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.
Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, And strangers to the sun yet ripen here. --Granville.
My child is yet a stranger in the world. --Shak.
I was no stranger to the original. --Dryden.
2. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.
To honor and receive Our heavenly stranger. --Milton.
3. (Law) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.
Stranger \Stran"ger\, v. t. To estrange; to alienate. [Obs.] --Shak.
And just in case audiences don't see just how human Ryoko is, Mr. Itami shows her kidding around with a stranger's baby, looking disarmingly unserious for a change.
"I feel like a stranger trying to get to know my own family," said one executive in the DeLong study.
You can no longer pass down the street and encounter a stranger.
In 1986 he was promoted to the Court of Appeal. He is no stranger to controversy.
In August 1989, she came upon a robbery report involving a familiar M.O.: A Houston hotel guest had been held up by an especially courtly stranger.
Mr. Hazen, punchdrunk from too many late-night stints as the leader of the project, found himself at one point blurting out superconductor secrets at 4 a.m. to a stranger in a bar.
On returning this week to Barcelona for the 25th Olympic summer games, I wandered about a city remade and felt like a stranger striking up a new acquaintance.
Says a friend: "Bill is no stranger to international economic diplomacy."
Lincoln Property isn't a stranger to Las Colinas.
THE US mining industry is no stranger to trouble.
Though making the story even stranger, some background also sheds light on at least one the reasons why: Government regulations _ the same ones meant to encourage contracting out _ put the outside contractor as a disadvantage.
THE European Commission, no stranger to controversy, is set to walk into a storm of hostility when it proposes next week to cut sharply an expensive subsidy on milk for 31m EC schoolchildren. There is still some dispute about the size of the proposed cut.
Two years later she was raped at knifepoint by a stranger.
She told police she paid a stranger $25 for the card, said Richard Piperno, spokesman for Queens District Attorney John Santucci.
A 22-year-old Jamaican named Tony McKintosh asks a stranger in the street if he can get him to America for $800.
"The man who stands before you is not a stranger," Mandela told cheering auto workers. "I am a member of the UAW; I am your flesh and blood.
Even stranger is the case of Usha Rectifier, a semiconductor company with 1988 sales of $28 million that's raising $270 million to build an iron plant.
"The principle she felt bound with is the presumption that you can't supplant a competent loving family member with a stranger," said Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota.
The city is no stranger to Big Events: annual Mardi Gras street parties, six Super Bowls, a papal visit and the 1984 World's Fair.
The day a stranger forced his way into Nancy Ziegenmeyer's car, cursing her for being white and savagely assaulting her, was just the first of two events that changed her life.
But in China truth is not only often stranger than fiction, it's frequently much more interesting.
A man who was shot and critically wounded while responding to a stranger's scream for help has always tried to lend a hand to people in trouble, his wife said Thursday.
Algeria is no stranger to that country's turmoil.
Shahrum is no stranger to the dark side of the archival life. His current Treasures from the Grave exhibition has attracted about 700,000 people, including many foreign tourists.
The group has been successful in winning US orders for its urban mass transit systems and makes rolling stock for the Channel tunnel. However, it is no stranger to uncertainty.
The truth is, eight years ago a stranger jammed a knife into his gut, spilling the intestines out of his slight frame, then slit his throat as he lay calling for help.
"Madam, come over here," orders a stranger, and it turns out he wants to show a visitor where the ceiling fans are blowing the coolest air.
Then each gives the stranger sitting in his or her lap a back massage.
Schwarzkopf, a West Pointer with four stars, a master's degree in guided missile technology and the build of a pro football tackle, is no stranger to crisis.
A woman says the stranger at her door Sunday night was stranger than anything she had seen there before.