stranger vs native
Definitions
noun
- an individual that one is not acquainted with
- anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
Examples
If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex.
But he knew he would be like a stranger to her, a strange man with a repellingly scarred face.
But her own life was often stranger than any action-packed fiction plot.
Definitions
adjective
- characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin
- as found in nature in the elemental form
- characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning
- belonging to one by birth
noun
- an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
- indigenous plants and animals
- a person born in a particular place or country
Examples
Sodium thiopental was used by most U.S. states as part of a lethal injection combination, but many have switched to an alternative drug called pentobarbital amid an ongoing shortage.
The same signary was also used in the early historical period to write Greek; by the end of the third century B.C., Greek alphabetic writing had almost completely supplanted the native script.
If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science.
