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adjective
1.
differing in nature from what is ordinary, usual, or expected: an odd choice.
2.
singular or peculiar in a strange or eccentric way: an odd person; odd manners.
3.
fantastic; bizarre: Her taste in clothing was rather odd.
4.
leaving a remainder of 1 when divided by 2, as a number (opposed to even): Numbers like 3, 15, and 181 are odd numbers.
5.
EXPANDmore or less, especially a little more (used in combination with a round number): I owe three hundred-odd dollars.
6.
being a small amount in addition to what is counted or specified: I have five gross and a few odd dozens.
8.
remaining after all others are paired, grouped, or divided into equal numbers or parts: Everybody gets two hamburgers and I get the odd one.
9.
left over after all others are used, consumed, etc.
10.
(of a pair) not matching: Do you know you're wearing an odd pair of socks?
11.
not forming part of any particular group, set, or class: to pick up odd bits of information.
12.
not regular, usual, or full-time; occasional; casual: odd jobs.
13.
out-of-the-way; secluded: a tour to the odd parts of the Far East.
14.
COLLAPSEMathematics. (of a function) having a sign that changes when the sign of each independent variable is changed at the same time.
noun
15.
something that is odd.
16.
Golf.
a.
a stroke more than the opponent has played.
b.
British. a stroke taken from a player's total score for a hole in order to give him or her odds.
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Oddness
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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| odd (ɒd) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | unusual or peculiar in appearance, character, etc |
| 2. | occasional, incidental, or random: odd jobs |
| 3. | leftover or additional: odd bits of wool |
| 4. | a. not divisible by two |
| b. Compare even represented or indicated by a number that is not divisible by two: graphs are on odd pages | |
| 5. | being part of a matched pair or set when the other or others are missing: an odd sock; odd volumes |
| 6. | (in combination) used to designate an indefinite quantity more than the quantity specified in round numbers: fifty-odd pounds |
| 7. | out-of-the-way or secluded: odd corners |
| 8. | maths See even (of a function) changing sign but not absolute value when the sign of the independent variable is changed, as in y=x³ |
| 9. | odd man out a person or thing excluded from others forming a group, unit, etc |
| —n | |
| 10. | golf |
| a. one stroke more than the score of one's opponent | |
| b. an advantage or handicap of one stroke added to or taken away from a player's score | |
| 11. | a thing or person that is odd in sequence or number |
| [C14: odde: from Old Norse oddi point, angle, triangle, third or odd number. Compare Old Norse oddr point, spot, place; Old English ord point, beginning] | |
| 'oddly | |
| —adv | |
| 'oddness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
odd
c.1300, "constituting a unit in excess of an even number," from O.N. oddi "third or additional number," as in odda-maðr "third man, odd man (who gives the casting vote)," odda-tala "odd number." O.N. oddi means lit. "point, angle;" related via notion of "triangle" to oddr "point of a weapon," from
EXPANDP.Gmc. *uzdaz "pointed upward" (cf. O.E. ord "point of a weapon, spear, source, beginning," O.Fris. ord "point, place," Du. oord "place, region," O.H.G. ort "point," Ger. Ort "place"), from PIE *uzdho- (cf. Lith. us-nis "thistle"). None of the other languages, however, shows the O.N. development from "point" to "third number." Used from late 14c. to indicate a surplus over any given sum. Sense of "strange, peculiar" first attested 1580s from notion of "odd one out, unpaired one of three" (attested earlier, c.1400, as "singular" in a positive sense of "renowned, rare, choice"). Odd job (c.1770) is so called from notion of "not regular." Odd lot "incomplete or random set" is from 1897. The international order of Odd Fellows began as local social clubs in England, late 18c., with Masonic-type trappings; formally organized 1813 in Manchester.
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odd  (ŏd) Pronunciation Key
Divisible by 2 with a remainder of 1, such as 17 or -103. |
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