odd

[od]

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adjective, odd·er, odd·est.

differing in nature from what is ordinary, usual, or expected: an odd choice.

singular or peculiar in a strange or eccentric way: an odd person; odd manners.

fantastic; bizarre: Her taste in clothing was rather odd.

leaving a remainder of 1 when divided by 2, as a number (opposed to even): Numbers like 3, 15, and 181 are odd numbers.

more or less, especially a little more (used in combination with a round number): I owe three hundred-odd dollars.

being a small amount in addition to what is counted or specified: I have five gross and a few odd dozens.

being part of a pair, set, or series of which the rest is lacking: an odd glove.

remaining after all others are paired, grouped, or divided into equal numbers or parts: Everybody gets two hamburgers and I get the odd one.

left over after all others are used, consumed, etc.

(of a pair) not matching: Do you know you're wearing an odd pair of socks?

not forming part of any particular group, set, or class: to pick up odd bits of information.

not regular, usual, or full-time; occasional; casual: odd jobs.

out-of-the-way; secluded: a tour to the odd parts of the Far East.

Mathematics. (of a function) having a sign that changes when the sign of each independent variable is changed at the same time.

noun

something that is odd.

Golf.

a stroke more than the opponent has played.
British.a stroke taken from a player's total score for a hole in order to give him or her odds.

Origin of odd

1300–50; Middle English odde < Old Norse oddi odd (number)

Related formsodd·ly, adverbodd·ness, noun

Can be confusedad add odd

Synonyms for odd

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1. extraordinary, unusual, rare, uncommon. See strange.

Antonyms for odd

1. ordinary, usual, common.

OD

[oh-dee]

noun, plural ODs or OD's.

an overdose of a drug, especially a fatal one.

a person who has taken an overdose of a drug, especially one who has become seriously ill or has died from such an overdose.

verb (used without object), OD'd or ODed or OD'ed, OD'ing or OD·ing.

to take an overdose of a drug.

to die from an an overdose of a drug.

to have or experience an excessive amount or degree of something.

Origin of OD

First recorded in 1955–60

Od

or 'Od, Odd

[od]

interjection Archaic.

a shortened form of “God” (used in euphemistically altered oaths).

Origin of Od

First recorded in 1590–1600

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Related Words for odd

different, accidental, casual, chance, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, fragmentary, incidental, irregular, occasional, periodic, random, sundry, varied, seasonal, additional, alone, individual, left

Examples from the Web for odd

Contemporary Examples of odd

As the controversy unfurled late Monday, it created some odd bedfellows.
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Tim Mak
December 30, 2014
So when he told me, 'You can come to my show, but you can't come to see Phoebe, and you can't come to see Riccardo, that was odd.
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s Balmain Campaign: High Fashion Meets Low Culture
Amy Zimmerman
December 23, 2014
Would he have been careful enough to destroy the odd pieces of jute you've left so messily about?
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days
David Freeman
December 13, 2014
They share an odd bond, however: the bounties the U.S. government has placed on their heads.
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M.L. Nestel
December 13, 2014
But with GOP governors slashing budgets across the country, can this odd alliance last?
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December 12, 2014

Historical Examples of odd

If there was anything she hated, it was nooks and odd corners.
Malbone
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
He had read a good deal at odd times, and had seen a great deal of men.
Malbone
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
It is odd how one gets callous to death, a mediaeval callousness.
Ballads of a Bohemian
Robert W. Service
Isn't it odd to think that we are going to be practically one family!
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
The odd coincidence of their paths crossing again troubled him.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart

British Dictionary definitions for odd

odd

adjective

unusual or peculiar in appearance, character, etc

occasional, incidental, or randomodd jobs

leftover or additionalodd bits of wool

not divisible by two
represented or indicated by a number that is not divisible by twographs are on odd pages Compare even 1 (def. 7)

being part of a matched pair or set when the other or others are missingan odd sock; odd volumes

(in combination) used to designate an indefinite quantity more than the quantity specified in round numbersfifty-odd pounds

out-of-the-way or secludedodd corners

maths (of a function) changing sign but not absolute value when the sign of the independent variable is changed, as in y=x³See even 1 (def. 13)

odd man out a person or thing excluded from others forming a group, unit, etc

noun

golf

one stroke more than the score of one's opponent
an advantage or handicap of one stroke added to or taken away from a player's score

a thing or person that is odd in sequence or number

Word Origin for odd

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

Od

'Od or Odd

noun

euphemistic (used in mild oaths) an archaic word for God

OD

noun

an overdose of a drug

verb OD's, OD'ing or OD'd

(intr) to take an overdose of a drug

Word Origin for OD

C20: from o (ver) d (ose)

OD

abbreviation for

Officer of the Day

Old Dutch

ordnance datum

outside diameter

Also: o.d. military olive drab

Also: O/D banking

on demand
overdraft
overdrawn

od

odyl or odyle (ˈɒdɪl)

noun

archaic a hypothetical force formerly thought to be responsible for many natural phenomena, such as magnetism, light, and hypnotism

Derived Formsodic, adjective

Word Origin for od

C19: coined arbitrarily by Baron Karl von Reichenbach (1788–1869), German scientist

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Word Origin and History for odd

adj.

c.1300, "constituting a unit in excess of an even number," from Old Norse oddi "third or additional number," as in odda-maðr "third man, odd man (who gives the casting vote)," odda-tala "odd number." The literal meaning of Old Norse oddi is "point of land, angle" (related via notion of "triangle" to oddr "point of a weapon"); from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz "pointed upward" (cf. Old English ord "point of a weapon, spear, source, beginning," Old Frisian ord "point, place," Dutch oord "place, region," Old High German ort "point, angle," German Ort "place"), from PIE *uzdho- (cf. Lithuanian us-nis "thistle"). None of the other languages, however, shows the Old Norse 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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