Phrase Hound found 32 phrases and 22 compound words that contain strange. The most common are listed below. Open strange in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 32
- strange birdAn unusual person, especially one with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics.
- Strange Thing
- Strange Things
- strange fruitA person who has been lynched by hanging; such people collectively.
- strange fishSynonym of odd fish: An unusual thing or eccentric person.
- strange womanA harlot.
- strange to sayStrangely; oddly; strange as it may seem; strange to relate.
- make strangeTo behave in a shy, uncommunicative, resistant manner when encountering an unfamiliar person or situation.
- strange attractorAn attractor that has a non-integer dimension or whose dynamics on it are chaotic.
- strange bedfellowsAn unusual combination or political alliance.
- strange birdsplural of strange bird: An unusual person, especially one with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics.
- strange loopA situation where, by moving only upwards or downwards through a hierarchical system, one finds oneself back where one started. These loops often involve self-reference and paradox.
- strange matterA proposed form of matter that includes strange quarks in addition to the usual up and down quarks of nuclear matter. Equivalently, a proposed very stable form of matter that protons and neutrons might decay into; matter composed of …
- strange starA hypothetical quark star made of strange matter.
- strange starsplural of strange star: A hypothetical quark star made of strange matter.
- strange quarkA quark having a fractional electric charge of -1/3 and a mass of about 80 to 130 MeV.
- strange loopsplural of strange loop: A situation where, by moving only upwards or downwards through a hierarchical system, one finds oneself back where one started. These loops often involve self-reference and paradox.
- strange quarksplural of strange quark: A quark having a fractional electric charge of -1/3 and a mass of about 80 to 130 MeV.
- strange quark matterAlternative form of strange matter: A proposed form of matter that includes strange quarks in addition to the usual up and down quarks of nuclear matter. Equivalently, a proposed very stable form of matter that protons and neutrons might …
- strange quark starAlternative form of strange star: A hypothetical quark star made of strange matter.
- strange attractorsplural of strange attractor: An attractor that has a non-integer dimension or whose dynamics on it are chaotic.
- made strangesimple past and past participle of make strange
- makes strangethird-person singular simple present indicative of make strange: To behave in a shy, uncommunicative, resistant manner when encountering an unfamiliar person or situation.
- making strangepresent participle and gerund of make strange
- strange person
Compound words 22
- strangelyIn a strange or coincidental manner.
- strangenessThe state or quality of being strange, odd or weird.
- strangifyTo make strange or exotic.
- strangificationThe act or process of strangifying.
- unstrangeNot strange.
- bestrangeTo make strange, foreign, or alien; alienate; estrange.
- strangelingOne who is strange, foreign, or unusual; stranger.
- multistrangeComposed of multiple strange quarks
- nonstrangeNot strange.
- sstrangeBeing or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a strange quark.