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(diminutive) An odd number.
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So let's see. There are two evens here and three odds.
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Something left over, not forming part of a set.
adjective
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Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
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She slept in, which was very odd.
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Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
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My cat Fluffy has odd eyes: one blue and one brown.
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Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
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I'm the odd one out.
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Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
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Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
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I don't speak Latin well, so in hearing a dissertation in Latin, I would only be able to make out the odd word of it.
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Not regular or planned.
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He's only worked odd jobs.
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Used or employed for odd jobs.
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Numerically indivisible by two.
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The product of odd numbers is also odd.
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Numbered with an odd number.
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How do I print only the odd pages?
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(in combination with a number) About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
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There were thirty-odd people in the room.
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Out of the way, secluded.
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On the left.
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He served from the odd court.
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Singular in excellence; matchless; peerless; outstanding.
Examples of odd in a Sentence
Some of them asked odd questions.
An odd ringing sound punctuated the rumbling storm.
She was tough but expressive, a combination he found odd but promising.
The odd request made him pause.
No, but there's nothing odd about a Tom cat wandering off for a few days.
Dusty studied him, an odd look crossing his face.
What an odd thing to say at a time like this, he thought.
The odd scent was closer, and she found herself breathing in deeply to try to capture it.
Will it seem odd if I ask?
There were odd wooden houses, with carved wooden flowers in the front yards.
Her body was weak but working, and there were more of the odd sugar cubes beside her pillow.
An odd look crossed her face.
It twisted its odd little face to look at her and sniffed at her arm with its small trunk.
Odd, coming from my best assassin.
Kiera shook her head, perplexed by their odd invitation to stay with them.
He gazed at her for a long moment, an odd gleam in his eye.
He liked watching her despite her odd actions.
And in it were some odd little pictures, which he never grew tired of looking at.
The words struck her as odd, but she had trouble concentrating when the men launched into a three-way battle.
She dipped everything she tried-- from meat to casseroles with odd textures-- in the clear broth.
The odd energy flowing between them held them both in silence for a long moment before he spoke.
She had her odd gifts with her and sat at the battle planner.
She sat across from Evelyn, who continued to give her the odd look, and clasped her hands together hard to keep them from shaking as they took off.
He gave her an odd look and started down the hall, waving for her to follow.
Thanks to Jenner, Nelmes, Blossom, and Phipps (which sounds like a rather odd law firm), today we have the word "vaccine."
It is odd that this irregular poem, with its copious and varied music, its splendid sweep of emotion, its unfailing richness of texture - this poem in which Tennyson rises to heights of human sympathy and intuition which he reached nowhere else, should have been received with bitter hostility, have been styled "the dead level of prose run mad," and have been reproved more absurdly still for its "rampant and rabid bloodthirstiness of soul."
The surburban town is an odd mix of decay and gentrification in its current state.
The odd sense made her uncomfortable.
All city elections are held in odd numbered years.
Thus we have the odd position that noiimena, or the contents of the intelligible world, are just the things to which thought can never penetrate.
Odd noises, moving objects and lights turning on and off are said to plague the haunted building.
Wynn was looking at her again, an odd light in his eyes.
Jonny entered, his odd energy crackling around him.
At odd hours of lessons she picked up a smattering of Latin, music and natural science, but most days were holidays and spent in country rambles and games with village children.
From certain indications in the latter and the evidence of some odd leaves discovered by David Laing, it has been concluded that there was an earlier Edinburgh edition, which has been ascribed to Thomas Davidson, printer, and dated c. 1540.
This odd animal is provided with a bill or beak, which is not, like that of a bird, affixed to the skeleton, but is merely attached to the skin and muscles.
There are also an orphans' home, supported by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a Carnegie library.
It is very odd that modern authors have considered this proclamation as inconsistent with the Zoroastrian creed.
Except when called in special session by the governor it meets (at Helena) on the first Monday of January in odd numbered years only, and the length of its session is limited by the constitution to sixty days.
There is a kind of anticipation of the scientific spirit in the careful zeal with which he picks up odd aspects of mankind and comments upon them as he places them in his museum.
A realization that the continuation of independent and rival corporations retarded growth eventually led to a compromise by which the two were united as two wards of the same village in 1839, the autonomy of each being still recognized by an odd arrangement whereby each maintained practically independent management of its finances and affairs.
The formula shows that except for numbers of the form (3n 2 n) the number of partitions without repetitions into an odd number of parts is equal to the number of partitions without repetitions into an even number of parts, whereas for the excepted numbers these numbers differ by unity.
Dadaya macrops (Sars, 1901), from South America and Ceylon, has a very large eye and an eye-spot fully as large, but it is a very small creature, odd in its behaviour, moving by jumps at the very surface of the water.
The enormous quantities of pieces admit of good selection and where odd colours prevail in a lining it is dyed.
There are nine pairs of shortly-stalked leaflets (foliola, pinnae), and an odd one at the extremity.
One other posthumous production also (besides the tract on Heresy before mentioned) may be referred to this, if not, as Aubrey suggests, an earlier time - the two thousand and odd elagiac verses in which he gave his 1 The De medio animarum statu of Thomas White, a heterodox Catholic priest, who contested the natural immortality of the soul.
Many of the original Indian plantations were established on hill-sides, after the example of known districts in China, where hill slopes and odd corners are commonly occupied with tea-plants.
Of the 300 odd territorial sovereignties under the Holy Empire only 39 survived, and these were readjusted on the traditional principles of compensations, rectification of frontiers and balance of power.
An odd incident precipitated the result.
The hair is sometimes worn plaited (choti), usually an odd number of thin plaits made into one large one, falling down the back and fastened at the end with ribbons.