Extraña in english
Strange
pronunciation: streɪndʒ part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: streɪndʒ part of speech: adjective
In gestures
extrañar = miss ; be sickening for.
Example: He had been her assistant since she arrived, and she was going to miss him.Example: But sometimes you could tell that she was sickening for the sun.more:
» extrañarse = raise + an eyebrow [Arqueando las cejas] ; be surprised .
Example: We may indeed raise an eyebrow when we find in Botany and Zoology the note 'Further systematic subdivisions, alphabetically arranged'. Example: 'I'm really not trying to put anyone on the spot and, frankly, I'm not too surprised and only a little disappointed at your collective ignorance,' he commented.» no es de extrañar que = no wonder that ; small wonder that .
Example: No wonder that publishers would not pay much for a copy. Example: Small wonder that, in the alternative universe, librarians are careworn and cataloguers neurotic.extraño1 = bizarre ; extraneous ; queer ; strange ; eccentric ; odd ; alien ; weird ; awry ; funny ; outlandish ; freaky ; uncanny ; kinky ; freakish ; quirky .
Example: Some of them will be sufficiently bizarre to suit the most fastidious connoisseur of the present artifacts of civilization.Example: If the catalog is to fulfill any of the requirements just enumerated, then it must be capable of responding to a user's query in a manner which does not result in extraneous citations.Example: Several years later, his talk with a friend turns to the queer ways in which a people resist innovations, even of vital interest.Example: The style of recording instructions for references differs from that in Sears', and can at first seem strange, but instructions are clear.Example: School classrooms are sometimes extraordinarily badly designed with poor acoustics, ineffective blackout facilities, and notoriously eccentric electrical outlets.Example: There is little modulation, whole steps of division being short-circuited and an odd assembly of terms being frequently found: e.g.: LAW see also JURY, JUDGES.Example: Libraries in developing countries may represent part of an alien cultural package, an importation ill suited to the country's needs, even working at cross purposes to the people's interests.Example: This paper surveys some of the more weird World Wide Web sites.Example: Could she not have detected that something in his behavior was awry?.Example: The article 'What's that funny noise? Videogames in the library' explains how videogames have attracted many young irregular library users who may, in time, extend their attention to other library facilities.Example: This book discusses some of the most outlandish myths and fantastic realities of medical history.Example: This film is really just a series of throwaway skits that the director and scriptwriter attempt to lard with parody and freaky fantasy.Example: Surrealism is an art concerned not with love and liberation but with the uncanny, the compulsion to repeat, and the drive toward death.Example: However, those desiring something off-the-wall, borderline kinky, and just plain mad might appreciate the novel.Example: 1816 was one of several years during the 1810s in which numerous crops failed during freakish summer cold snaps after volcanic eruptions that reduced incoming sunlight.Example: 'Why are barns frequently painted red?' -- These are the curious, slightly bizarre and somewhat quirky kinds of questions librarians deal with = 'Why are barns frequently painted red?' -- These are the curious, slightly bizarre and somewhat quirky kinds of questions librarians deal with.more:
» aunque parezca extraño = strangely enough ; oddly enough ; strange though it may seem ; strange as it may seem ; although it may seem strange .
Example: Strangely enough, despite the fact that he was buddies with Henry Kissinger at Harvard, he is registered as a member of the Democratic Party. Example: Oddly enough, this failure turns into a success by preserving idealism from solipsism. Example: Strange though it may seem, he wrote all but one before 1900. Example: Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. Example: Although it may seem strange, this new trend is just as much a part of the expression of this era as the rebellions of yesteryear.» cuerpo extraño = foreign body .
Example: In eleven cases the foreign body was removed during the bronchoscopy.» de apariencia extraña = queer-looking ; odd-looking ; funny-looking ; strange-looking .
Example: The pangolin is a queer-looking, scaly animal that survives by eating ants and other insects. Example: Of the scores of dolphin species, here are the most peculiar and odd-looking ones. Example: The cedilla is a funny-looking mark that always changes the sound of the letter c it gets attached to, from a k sound to a soft sound like the s in sea. Example: Explore the weird and wacky side of the canine world with this hilarious photo gallery of strange-looking dog breeds.» de aspecto extraño = queer-looking ; odd-looking ; funny-looking ; strange-looking .
Example: The pangolin is a queer-looking, scaly animal that survives by eating ants and other insects. Example: Of the scores of dolphin species, here are the most peculiar and odd-looking ones. Example: The cedilla is a funny-looking mark that always changes the sound of the letter c it gets attached to, from a k sound to a soft sound like the s in sea. Example: Explore the weird and wacky side of the canine world with this hilarious photo gallery of strange-looking dog breeds.» de forma extraña = oddly ; funnily ; weirdly .
Example: Elaine poked at the ribs sticking up so oddly above the otherwise flattened skeleton. Example: That's why I am trying to find an area where people don't look funnily upon others who are not like them. Example: Dan has been acting weirdly lately --. I think he's having yet another existential crisis.» de manera extraña = oddly ; funnily .
Example: Elaine poked at the ribs sticking up so oddly above the otherwise flattened skeleton. Example: That's why I am trying to find an area where people don't look funnily upon others who are not like them.» de modo extraño = weirdly .
Example: Dan has been acting weirdly lately --. I think he's having yet another existential crisis.» de una forma extraña = in a strange way ; strangely .
Example: As I was walking around the supermarket, I began to notice that people were looking at me in a strange way. Example: Visible indexes, strangely, are normally used for catalogues.» de una manera extraña = strangely ; weirdly ; in a strange way .
Example: Visible indexes, strangely, are normally used for catalogues. Example: Dan has been acting weirdly lately --. I think he's having yet another existential crisis. Example: As I was walking around the supermarket, I began to notice that people were looking at me in a strange way.» de una manera un poco extraña = in a strange kind/sort of way .
Example: In a strange kind of way, he saved my life a number of times and gave me purpose when I was a young woman.» de una manera un tanto extraña = in a strange kind/sort of way .
Example: In a strange kind of way, he saved my life a number of times and gave me purpose when I was a young woman.» de un forma un poco extraña = in a strange kind/sort of way .
Example: In a strange kind of way, he saved my life a number of times and gave me purpose when I was a young woman.» de un forma un tanto extraña = in a strange kind/sort of way .
Example: In a strange kind of way, he saved my life a number of times and gave me purpose when I was a young woman.» de un modo extraño = freakishly ; in a strange way ; strangely .
Example: The novel is a cheery social satire about geeky middle-aged men and their freakishly attractive, younger spouses. Example: As I was walking around the supermarket, I began to notice that people were looking at me in a strange way. Example: Visible indexes, strangely, are normally used for catalogues.» de un modo un poco extraño = in a strange kind/sort of way .
Example: In a strange kind of way, he saved my life a number of times and gave me purpose when I was a young woman.» de un modo un tanto extraño = in a strange kind/sort of way .
Example: In a strange kind of way, he saved my life a number of times and gave me purpose when I was a young woman.» en circunstancias extrañas = in strange circumstances .
Example: It is dedicated to the lost soul of a poor girl who met her fate too soon in strange circumstances.» en circunstancias muy extrañas = in bizarre circumstances .
Example: In December 1926, Agatha Christie became front-page news when she vanished in bizarre circumstances from her home.» encontrar un poco extraño = find + Nombre + (a little) odd .
Example: I found that a little odd at first but, on second thought, it dawned on me that there could be something here worth giving a thought about.» extraño (a) = foreign (to) .
Example: Foreign disc in CD-ROM player, correct the problem and press any key to continue.» la verdad es más extraña que la ficción = truth is stranger than fiction .
Example: But so far, no one has imagined a scenario where people might be playing ping-pong with robots, which just goes to prove that truth is often stranger than fiction.» muy extraño = very odd .
Example: So a very odd red mark has appeared from nowhere on my face and I'm trying to figure out what it is and how to get rid of it.» país extraño = foreign country .
Example: The article is entitled 'Political risk: sources that assess or advise on risks in foreign country business or investment'.» parecer extraño = sound + weird ; sound + odd .
Example: It sounds weird but in my short no-way-out street there are two wheelchairs parked permanently. Example: These decisions may sound odd, like the assumption of an 'unreliable' network, but history has proven that most of them were reasonably correct.» partícula extraña = foreign particle .
Example: Evaporated atoms that collide with foreign particles may react with them; for instance, if aluminium is deposited in the presence of oxygen, it will form aluminium oxide.» por alguna extraña razón = for some odd reason ; for some bizarre reason .
Example: For some odd reason in our society today it's not what we know but who we know that makes us known. Example: For some bizarre reason, people freak out about Ancient Greek accentuation and especially about the accentuation of enclitics.» por muy extraño que parezca = oddly enough ; strangely enough ; strange though it may seem ; strange as it may seem ; although it may seem strange ; funnily enough ; funnily ; weirdly enough .
Example: Oddly enough, this failure turns into a success by preserving idealism from solipsism. Example: Strangely enough, despite the fact that he was buddies with Henry Kissinger at Harvard, he is registered as a member of the Democratic Party. Example: Strange though it may seem, he wrote all but one before 1900. Example: Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. Example: Although it may seem strange, this new trend is just as much a part of the expression of this era as the rebellions of yesteryear. Example: Funnily enough, it's an accusation that can be levelled at many TV shows. Example: Funnily, it is the temperature that goes down first and the CO2 which goes down a few thousand years later. Example: Weirdly enough these bum bags were popular as at my high school circa 2003-2007.» resultar extraño = be unfamiliar with .
Example: The narrative may be unfamiliar in its structure so that they are unsure about the way different elements of the story fit together.» ser extraño para = be alien to .
Example: The indications are that socialist theory was absolutely alien to the majority of socialist workers, who had little interest in theoretical party literature.» ser mirado de forma extraña = get + some funny looks .
Example: You might get some funny looks if you turn up looking like the wreck of the Hesperus, but other than that, you're grand as far as I know.» sonar extraño = sound + weird ; sound + odd .
Example: It sounds weird but in my short no-way-out street there are two wheelchairs parked permanently. Example: These decisions may sound odd, like the assumption of an 'unreliable' network, but history has proven that most of them were reasonably correct.» tener una cara extraña = have + a funny look on + Posesivo + face .
Example: He had a funny look on his face -- a bit like the look people get when they're busting for the toilet, but someone else is using it and they have to wait.» tener un aspecto extraño = look + odd .
Example: I'm no great-looker myself so I don't mind living somewhere where people look odd.extraño2 = outlander ; outsider ; stranger.
Example: 'Small, near-sighted, dreaming, bruised, an outlander in the city of his birth,' thirteen-year-old Aremis Slake fled one day to the only refuge he knew, the New York subway system.Example: The library director does not want to take the chance that by allowing the trustees to get active he might lose partial control of the library operation to an 'outsider'.Example: Many Americans viewed this influx of strangers with alarm.more:
» cita con un extraño = blind date .
Example: The article is entitled 'A marriage made in heaven or a blind date: successful library-faculty partnering in distance education.» ser un total extraño = not know + Pronombre + from Adam ; not know + Pronombre + from a hole in the wall ; be a total stranger .
Example: But the man in the street wouldn't know them from Adam. Example: Although my father 'didn't know her from a hole in the wall,' he walked into a bank and vouched for her creditworthiness. Example: She is now obsessed with needing to understand why a total stranger would sacrifice his life to save hers.