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oddly

/od/US // ɒd //UK // (ɒd) //

奇怪的是,奇特的是,奇特的,古怪的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
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    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: Numbers like 3, 15, and 181 are odd numbers.
    • : more or less, especially a little more: 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.
    • : 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. having a sign that changes when the sign of each independent variable is changed at the same time.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • Think of his increased odds when the single’s line takes 30 minutes.

  • Though a very difficult winter looms, the odds are good that these lifesavers will help the global economy turn the corner on the pandemic in 2021—and, with luck, trigger a recovery that’s strong enough, and broad enough, to KO both those K-shapes.

  • According to our model, the winner will see its chances of winning the NFC West leap to about 55 percent, while the loser’s odds will drop to about 15 percent.

  • According to US-Bookies, the record amounts wagered on the 2020 election were a key reason why betting odds for this year’s race more accurately predicted eventual outcomes than those four years ago.

  • When you think about it, the whole idea of cross-training seems a little odd.

  • But throughout all this, Malone describe herself as “oddly responsible,” wanting to help her moms pay the bills as young as 10.

  • Oddly you nurture it, it is part of you, and inescapably part of your past, present, and future.

  • It so oddly equates to our film, and the cultural moment we were in in 1965.

  • There was only one phone left and when it would ring, the bell would echo, oddly, off the walls.

  • He'd kept the few offices at the front of the bungalow, now oddly barren.

  • Oddly enough this assumption—the most warrantable of the lot—was the earliest to fall under disrepute.

  • Oddly enough, in that moment of anguish he thought of Hodson, the man who rode alone from Kurnaul to Meerut.

  • They then cough it up and use this material they have so oddly prepared in making their nests.

  • Then he turned suddenly, and Harris saw that his face had turned most oddly and disagreeably sinister.

  • But, oddly enough, as he walked back to the hotel it was just Betty Lardner who made him think again of the legend.