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Definition: Odd |
OddAdjective1. Not divisible by two. 2. Not easily explained; "it is odd that his name is never mentioned". 3. (in combination) an indefinite quantity more than that specified; "invited 30-odd guests". 4. Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior". 5. Of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g. 6. Not used up; "leftover meatloaf"; "she had a little money left over so she went to a movie"; "some odd dollars left"; "saved the remaining sandwiches for supper"; "unexpended provisions". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Odd" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a sword's tip". |
Date "odd" was first used: sometime around 1280. (references) |
Note: Odd \Odd\, adjective. [Comparative Odder; superlative Oddest.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In mathematics, any integer (whole number) is either even or odd. If it is a multiple of two, it is an even number; otherwise, it is an odd number. Examples of even numbers are -4, 8, 0, and 70. Examples of odd numbers are -5, 1, and 71. The number zero is even, because it is equal to two multiplied by zero.The set of even numbers can be written:
The set of odd numbers can be shown like this:
- Evens = 2Z = {..., -6, -4, -2, 0, 2, 4, 6, ...}.
A number expressed in the decimal numeral system is even or odd according to whether its last digit is even or odd. That is, if the last digit is 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9, then it's odd; otherwise it's even. The same idea will work using any even base. In particular, a number expressed in the binary numeral system is odd if its last digit is 1 and even if its last digit is 0. In an odd base, the number is even or odd according to the sum of its digits.
- Odds = 2Z + 1 = {..., -5, -3, -1, 1, 3, 5, ...}.
The even numbers form an ideal in the ring of integers, but the odd numbers do not. An integer is even if it is congruent to 0 modulo this ideal, in other words if it's congruent to 0 modulo 2, and odd if it is congruent to 1 modulo 2.
All prime numbers are odd, with one exception: the prime number 2. All known perfect numbers are even; it is unknown whether any odd perfect numbers exist.
Goldbach's conjecture states that every even integer greater than 2 can be represented as a sum of two prime numbers. Modern computer calculations have shown this conjecture to be true for integers up to at least 4 × 1014, but still no general proof has been found.
In wind instruments which are cylindrical and closed at one end, such as the clarinet, the harmonics produced are odd multiples of the fundamental.
Arithmetic on even and odd numbers
The following laws can be verified using the properties of divisibility and the fact that 2 is a prime number:
Addition and subtraction
- even ± even = even;
- even ± odd = odd;
- odd ± odd = even.
Multiplication
- even × even = even;
- even × odd = even;
- odd × odd = odd.
Division
The division of two whole numbers does not necessarily result in a whole number. For example, 1 divided by 4 equals 1/4, which isn't even or odd, since the concepts even and odd apply only to integers. But when the quotient is an integer:
See also: Even permutation, Parity
- even / odd = even;
- odd / odd = odd;
- odd / even is never an integer;
- even / even could be either.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Even and odd numbers."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ODD | Dutch | Halfautomatische interlokale telefoondienst | Post & Telecom |
ODD | English | Optical data disk | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: OddSynonyms: curious (adj), funny (adj), left over(p) (adj), left(p) (adj), leftover (adj), peculiar (adj), queer (adj), remaining (adj), rum (adj), rummy (adj), singular (adj), unexpended (adj), unmatched (adj), unmated (adj), unpaired (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: even (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insanity | Fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric; hypped, hyppish; spaced out. |
Laughingstock | Original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old monkey, old fogey, fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon; (jester); pantomimist; (actor). |
Multiformity | Adjective: polymorphous, multiform, multifold, multifarious, multigenerous, multiplex; heterogeneous, diversified, dissimilar, various, varied, variform; manifold, many-sided; variegated, motley, mosaic; epicene, indiscriminate, desultory, irregular; mixed, different, assorted, mingled, odd, diverse, divers; all manner of; of every description, of all sorts and kinds; et hoc genus omne; and what not? de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis. |
Remainder | Adjective:remaining, left; left behind left over; residual, residuary; over, odd; unconsumed, sedimentary; surviving; net; exceeding, over and above; outlying, outstanding; cast off; superfluous; (redundant). |
Ridiculousness | Adjective: ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear; fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming; eccentric; (unconformable); strange, outlandish, out of the way, baroque, weird; awkward; (ugly). |
Unconformity | Unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful; unexpected, unaccountable; outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural; denaturalized. |
Unity | Unaccompanied, unattended; solus, single-handed; singular, odd, unique, unrepeated, azygous, first and last; isolated; (disjoined); insular. |
Vulgarity | Obsolete; (antiquated); unfashionable; newfangled; (unfamiliar); odd; (ridiculous). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You are exceptionally odd. (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) That's an odd combination (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman. Based on the novel by Gregory McDonald.) The point is that this is a very odd thing, supernatural, for lack of a better word (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) For some odd reason, lost in the mists of time, there's an extraordinary shortage of last names in Wales (The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a ; writing credit: Christopher Monger.) What an odd pairing (Meet Joe Black; writing credit: Martin Brest, screenplay adaptation by Walter Ferris. Based on the play 'Death Takes a Holiday' by Alberto Casella.) | |
Lyrics | I don't know but today seems kinda odd (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube) Started noticing odd developments in his physical state (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus) You may have heard about his odd complex (Oedipus Rex; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Clever | Odd objects attract fire--never lurk behind one. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Odd Man Out (1999) The Odd Couple (1970) Odd Ant Out (1970) Her Odd Tastes (1969) Odd Tastes (1968) | |
Song Titles | Odd Ball Boogie (performing artist: Malarkey) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Appearances can be deceiving. In this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, an odd celestial duo, ... Credit: NASA. |  | Figure 10. Dahl-Fjeldstad current meter - designed by assistant professor Jonas Ekman Fjeldstad of the University of Bergen in collaboration with the Norwegian engineer Odd Dahl. It automatically punched its readings on a tin strip for later reading and analysis. This system was completed in 1937. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Either odd rock formations or some kind of ruins in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area. Credit: Unknown. |  | Photographed during the 1960s, following her "FRAM II" modernization. She is carrying an odd antenna on her helicopter landing deck. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Sailors and Marines on the cruiser's forecastle, with mascot goat, 1898. Note details of pilothouse and bridge, improvised gunport shields on her forward 8" gun turret, and very odd "flathat" worn by one sailor. The original photograph was published on a stereograph card, copyright by C.L. Wasson, 1899. Credit: NAVY. |  | Isn't it a rather odd time to bring that up?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Churchills go to lunch. Boston: a large crowd greets Winston Churchill (left) and Mrs. Churchill (right of Churchill) as they arrive for a private luncheon at the Odd Volumes Club, April 1, in Boston. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Don't get underneath! Odd view of "Rockefeller Church" as largest bell is raised up to famous carillon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Odd Fellow's orphans' home, Lincoln, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Subcontracting aircraft parts. These odd pieces will eventually be important units of airplane sub-assembly parts in production at this Ohio plant. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Odd one" by Priit Kallas Commentary: "Hmm... why is on of 'em green?." | "Odd building" by Gilbert Tremblay Commentary: "Strange building taken in old quebec city... it really doesn't fit quebec's style and thats great." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Roulette; gambling; gaming; chance; black; red; even; odd; . |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | A single man resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. |
Charles Lamb | Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. |
Laurence Dunphy | A closed mind is an enigma indeed. Nothing ever goes in -- but odd things are forever coming out. |
Lord Byron | It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But yet opposition may be made to the illegal acts of any inferior officer, or other commissioned by him; unless he will, by actually putting himself into a state of war with his people, dissolve the government, and leave them to that defence which belongs to every one in the state of nature: for of such things who can tell what the end will be? and a neighbour kingdom has shewed the world an odd example. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I have now a key to all her odd looks and ways |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | It seems odd, don’t you think, that the quality of the food should vary inversely with the brightness of the lighting |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He replied by a bill of five hundred and some odd francs carefully drawn up. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | She told too of certain changes she had seen in her of late and of her odd ways and sayings |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | And upon this occasion, I hope the reader will pardon my relating an odd adventure |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | You Notice an Odd, Stale Smell. (references) | |
The child has odd movement patterns. (references) | ||
HPIV-1 causes biennial outbreaks of croup in the fall (presently in the United States during odd numbered years). (references) | ||
Business | These days it is odd for a businessperson to be without a cellular phone. (references) | |
Sicurezza Mediterranea, a bi-annual event also organized by the Intel Association, is held during odd years, alternating with Sicurezza in Milan. (references) | ||
Event is an international trade fair held in Guatemala City every odd year. A similar international trade fair is held every even year in San Salvador, El Salvador. (references) | ||
Economic History | Guatemala | One is the international trade fair held in Guatemala City every odd year: INTERFER '2001 - October 23 - 28, 2001. The other event is called FERIA NACIONAL (National Fair), which takes place every year in December, it is also called BAZARES DE INTERFER, Nov 30 - Dec 17. Other events during the year are: the International Construction Show (month of May) and it takes place every odd year, and COMFERIA (July 13 - 22, 2001). Information about the activities of the U.S. Embassy at this Promotion Opportunities can be obtained from the Commercial Service Office at the U.S. Embassy, Tel.: 011-502-331-1541 Ext.: 4259 and Fax: 011-502-331-7373. Any other general information please contact Roberto Gonzalez at COPEREX, Tel.: 011-502-331-0388 / 9 or 011-502-331-3737. (references) |
Political Economy | THAILAND | These include credit at below market level on some government-to-government sales of Thai rice (agreed on a case-by-case basis); preferential financing for exporters in the form of packing credits with odd maturities or values otherwise unavailable in international credit markets; tax certificates for rebates of packing credits; and rebates of taxes and import duties for products intended for re-export. (references) |
Travel | Poland | Flowers, always an odd number, are the most common gift among friends and acquaintances. (references) |
Worker Rights | Philippines | Children in the "entertainment industry" work long (10 to 12), odd hours from evening until early morning. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Child labor is not known to be a problem; however, children sometimes assist their families with farm work and odd jobs. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Christopher Reeve | It's funny how the psyche and the body shut down when you're in real crisis. Mine shut downs at odd moments anyway. |
Rosie O'Donnell | I was raised by a single parent, my dad. My mom died when I was a kid. So I never really thought of it as an odd thing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Odd" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.91% of the time. "Odd" is used about 4,477 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.91% | 4,473 | 2,189 |
| Adverb (general) | 0.07% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,477 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Odd, WV |
Expressions using "odd": an odd glove ♦ an odd kind of man ♦ at odd moments ♦ at odd times ♦ being an odd number ♦ do odd jobs ♦ it cost two pounds odd ♦ making up an odd number ♦ odd and even ♦ odd day ♦ odd Fellow ♦ odd fish ♦ odd Hassel ♦ odd job ♦ odd jobs ♦ odd lengths ♦ odd lot ♦ odd man ♦ odd man out ♦ odd moments ♦ odd month ♦ odd name ♦ odd number ♦ odd numbers ♦ odd opponent ♦ odd or even ♦ odd page ♦ odd size ♦ odd trifles ♦ odd type ♦ odd unmatched unmated unpaired ♦ odd volumes ♦ sixty odd. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "odd": odd-ball, Odd-bod, odd-bribe, odd-coloured, odd-come-short, odd-come-shortly, odd-come-shorts, odd-even, odd-even check, odd-eyed, odd-jeaned, odd-job, odd-job man, odd-jobber, odd-jobbers, odd-jobbing, odd-jobman, odd-jobs, Odd-knut, odd-leg caliper, odd-legged, odd-length, odd-like, odd-looking, odd-man-out, odd-number, odd-numbered, odd-odd, odd-order, odd-or-even, odd-pinnate, odd-pinnate leaf, odd-player, odd-shaped, odd-sized, odd-smelling, odd-sounding, odd-speaker, odd-toed, odd-toed ungulate, odd-toes. | |
Ending with "odd": eighty-odd, fifty-odd, forty-odd, hundred-odd, ninety-odd, seventy-odd, sixty-odd, thirty-odd, twenty-odd. | |
Containing "odd": hundred-odd-mile, one-hundred-and-twenty-odd-mile. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
odd | 413 | odd poker video | 28 |
odd job | 410 | odd sex | 27 |
fairly odd parent | 335 | odd girl out | 26 |
odd news | 332 | odd lot store | 22 |
odd todd | 136 | job odd trading | 21 |
the odd couple | 136 | fairy odd parent | 20 |
land odd | 122 | adhd odd | 20 |
job odd store | 109 | odd ball | 20 |
odd picture | 100 | odd photo | 19 |
odd lots | 97 | name odd | 19 |
odd fact | 83 | odd story | 19 |
odd lot | 67 | independent order of odd fellow | 17 |
odd fellow | 64 | odd man out | 17 |
odd nerdrum | 50 | odd things | 17 |
30 odd foot of grunt | 48 | baby name odd | 17 |
odd insertion | 39 | fairly odd parent picture | 16 |
odd pic | 34 | law odd | 15 |
odd world | 31 | odd stuff | 14 |
black jack odd | 31 | ball invitation odd | 14 |
some odd reason | 29 | thirty odd foot of grunt | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "odd"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | eienaardig (peculiar, strange, typical). (various references) | |
Albanian | tek (at, being an odd number, making up an odd number, off, to, uneven, unto, while), suplementar (added, expletive, extra, relief, run on, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary), që nuk ka palë, plotësues (additional, complement, complementary, counterpart, farther, implementing, obverse, supplemental, supplementary), i veçantë (characteristic, detached, discrete, distinct, distinctive, especial, exceptional, exclusive, extra, extra special, individual, of one's own, off, particular, particularized, peculiar, pet, queer, racy, rare, separate, single, sole, special, specific, uncommon), i tepërt (excess, excessive, excrescent, last, over, overabundant, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, unnecessary, walloping, waste), i tepërm (excess, excessive, excrescent, last, overabundant, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, walloping, waste), i rastit (adventitious, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, haphazard, incident, incidental, makeshift, occasional, passing, random, scratch, stray, transient), i rastësishëm (accidental, casual, chanceful, coincidental, desultory, fortuitous, incident, incidental, lucky, random, sporadic), i largët (distant, far, far off, faraway, long run, off, out of the way, outer, remote, removed, slight, vague, way out), i braktisur (cast off, castaway, derelict, desolate, forgotten, forlorn, forsaken, godforsaken, lorn, love-lorn, neglected, stand empty, untrodden, waste), i çuditshëm (bizarre, cranky, curious, dark, eccentric, electric, erratic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, frabjous, freak, freakish, funny, grotesque, kinky, oddish, off beat, outlandish, peculiar, pixilated, puzzling, quaint, queer, quizzical, rummy, strange, surprising, uncanny, unco, unnatural, unusual, viewy, way out, weird, whimsical), goditje vendimtare (settler). (various references) | |
Arabic | مفرد (one, single, singular, sole, solitary), ناقص (amiss, bid, defective, deficient, deprecatory, faulty, imperfect, inchoate, incomplete, incorrect, insufficient, minus, nude, reducible, revoked, scant, sketchy, truncate, unfinished, wanting), وتري غير شفعي, غير متجانس (disproportionate), غير دائمة, غريب الأطوار (capricious, crackpot, cranky, curious, eccentric, nutty, off beat, peculiar, queer, weird, weirdo, whimsical), غريب (absurd, alien, anomalous, antic, bizarre, eerie, eery, exotic, extraneous, fanciful, foreign, freakish, funny, grotesque, intruder, ludicrous, new, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, rum, senseless, singular, strange, stranger, tall, unaccustomed, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, unfamiliar, unnatural, whimsical), عجيب (amazement, bizarre, fanciful, freakish, funny, marvellous, marvelous, odd jobs, peculiar, phenomenal, portentous, prestigious, puzzling, rats, rum, staring, stupendous, tall, temperamental, weird, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), عرضي (accidental, adventitious, casual, circumstantial, episodic, extraneous, extrinsic, incident, incidental, occasional, passing, symptomatic, transverse, venial), الباقي (remaining, residual), شاذ (aberrant, anomalous, atypical, bastard, bizarre, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, far fetched, freak, intriguing, irregular, monstrous, moonstruck, off beat, outlandish, preternatural, prodigious, queer, rogue, scatty, singular, stupendous, thumping, wild). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | странен (bizarre, comic, comical, fantastic, fantastical, freakish, funny, grotesque, novel, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, remarkable, rum, rummy, screwy, singular, strange, uncanny, unco, unheard of, weird, whimsical), сам (alone, lone, lonely, oneself, single, single handed, singly, solitary, solo, solus, unaccompanied, yourself), случаен (accidental, adventitious, adventive, arbitrary, by, casual, chance, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, idle, incidental, long, lucky, occasional, pickup, precarious, promiscuous, random, sporadic, stray, unplanned, unsystematic), решаваща взятка, хандикап (handicap, odds), чудат (comic, comical, crackpot, eccentric, extravagant, faddish, faddy, peculiar, pixilated, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwy, singular, vagrant, viewy), тек (uneven), какъв да е, особен (distinct, especial, exclusive, fanciful, funny, idiosyncratic, individual, original, particular, peculiar, queer, special, specific, strange, uncommon), отделен (detached, discrete, disjunct, distinct, divided, independent, individual, insular, lone, particular, self contained, separate, several, single, singular, solitary, stray, unattached), нередовен (freak, informal, inordinate, irregular, occasional), нечетен (uneven, unread), непълен (imperfect, inadequate, incomplete, insufficient, partial, pendant, pendent, short, sketchy, unaccomplished), без еш (unmatched, unpaired), добавъчен (accessary, accessory, additional, additive, extra, fresh, further, plus, supplemental, supplementary, surplus). (various references) | |
Chinese | 奇怪 (strange). (various references) | |
Czech | zvláštní (curious, extra, extraordinary, funny, individual, intriguing, outlandish, particular, peculiar, quaint, queer, singular, special, strange, unique, weird), svérázný (idiosyncratic, racy), podivínský (cranky, eccentric, freaked, freakish, grotesque, viewy), příležitostný (casual, occasional), nerovný (broken, inequitable, one sided, ragged, rough, rugged, unequal, uneven), lichý, jednotlivý (component, individual, particular, separate, single), divný (curious, dicky, strange). (various references) | |
Danish | underlig (peculiar, strange), tosset (peculiar, strange), sær (peculiar, strange), gal (peculiar, strange). (various references) | |
Dutch | bizar (bizarre, weird). (various references) | |
Esperanto | stranga (peculiar, strange), malpara, bizara (bizarre, weird). (various references) | |
Faeroese | serur (peculiar, strange), løgin (comic, comical, curious, funny, interesting, peculiar, quaint, strange), egin (own, peculiar, personal, strange). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرد (Azygos, Individual, Single, Singular, Specimen, Subject, Unique, Unit), نخاله (Bran, Grit, Misfit), تک (Attack, Azygos, Individual, Lone, One, Particular, Segregate, Single, Singular, Solitaire, Solo), عجیب وغریب (Exotic, Oddball, Outlandish, Peculiar, Queer, Quizzical, Rum, Screwy, Unearthly), ادم عجیب , بخدا (Gad, Gar, Od). (various references) | |
Finnish | kummallinen (curious, interesting, peculiar, quaint, queer, strange). (various references) | |
French | singulier, bizarre, étrange. (various references) | |
Frisian | frjemd (alien, foreign, foreigner, peculiar, strange, stranger). (various references) | |
German | wunderlich (bizarre, cranky, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque, peculiar, quaint, strange, whimsical, whimsically, wondrous), ungerade (uneven, unlevel), sonderbar (curious, extraordinary, funny, mysteriously, oddly, outlandish, outlandishly, peculiar, queer, singular, singularly, spooky, strange, strangely, unaccountable, weirdly), seltsam (bizarre, curious, curiously, extraordinary, fancy, foreign, interesting, outlandish, outlandishness, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, queerly, strange, strangely, unaccountable, weird, whimsical), kurios (curious, interesting, peculiar, quaint, strange). (various references) | |
Greek | μόνοσ αριθμόσ, μόνοσ (alone, lone, only, single, single handed, sole), μονός (single, uneven), περιττόσ (dispensable, needless, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, uncalled for, unnecessary), περίεργος (curious, funny, inquisitiv, out of place, strange), παράξενος (out of place, peculiar, quaint, queer, strange), ασυνήθησ (abnormal, extraordinary, singular, uncommon, unconventional, unfamiliar, unusual, unwonted), αλλόκοτοσ (bizarre, eerie, grotesque, nondescript, quaint, queer, weird), αταίριαστοσ (dissimilar, incongruous, jarring, nonesuch). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משונה (anomalous, eccentric, freak, quaint, queer, strange, weird), יוצא מן הכלל (exception, exceptional, extraordinary, particular, unusual), לא זוגי, תמוה (amazing, enigmatic, mystifying, peculiar, strange, surprising). (various references) | |
Hungarian | furcsa (bizarre, bonkers, cockeyed, curious, dorky, droll, fanciful, fantasy, freakish, freaky, funny, grotesque, how odd that, kooky, louche, outlandish, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, strange, strange to say, weird). (various references) | |
Icelandic | vitlaus (peculiar, strange), skrýtinn (peculiar, strange). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gasal (uneven), ganjil (abnormal, peculiar, queer, uneven), asing (alien, different, exotic, foreign, strange), aneh (abnormal, irregular, mysterious, oddly, peculiar, queer, strange, unnatural, unusual). (various references) | |
Italian | strano (astonishing, funny, nondescript, outlandish, outlandishness, peculiar, quaint, queer, singular, strange, surprising, unusual, weird, zany). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 珍妙 (fantastic, queer). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おかしな (ridiculous), きなる (eccentric, strange), きい (disliking, displeasure, offense, position of aircraft, strange, wonderful, your request, your will, your wishes), そろわない (incomplete, unequal, uneven), いよう (bizarre, dignity, eccentric, majestic appearance, medical use, queer, strange), へん (area, biased, book, change, compilation, completed poem, disturbance, eccentric, editing, flat, funny, incident, inclining, inclining toward, left radical of a character, part of book, peculiar, queer, side, strange, suspicious-looking, vicinity), ちんみょう (fantastic, queer). (various references) | |
Korean | 괴상한 (Eccentric, Eccentrical, Excentric, freakish). (various references) | |
Manx | quaagh (alien, aloof, foreign, ghostly, peculiar, psychic, psychical, quaint, strange, supernatural, uncanny, weird), neuchorrym (disparate, disproportionate, ill-matched, inadequate, patchy, unequal), neuchadjin (especial, exceptional, out of the way, rare, singular, uncommon), lieh-chiart (imperfect, rough uncompleted), joarree (alien, bizarre, foreign, outlander, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, remarkable, strange, stranger, unfamiliar), cor (alternate, bastard, bastard of size, circumstance, condition, condition terms, depression, edge, event, fore, turn, turn act, twirl). (various references) | |
Norwegian | sprø (brittle, crazy, crisp, freaky, peculiar, strange), rar (peculiar, queer, strange), gal (mad, peculiar, strange). (various references) | |
Papiamen | strabagante (peculiar, strange), straño (peculiar, strange). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | odday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | excêntrico (barmy, bizarre, cam, capricious, cranky, crotcheteer, crotchety, eccentric, eccentrical, erratic, kinky, lunatic, madcap, oddball, peculiar, potty, quaint, queer, quizzical, strange, suburban, tappet, wacky, weird, whimsical, wobbler), estranho (alien, awkward, curious, eerie, eery, extraneous, foreign, kinky, mysterious, novel, outlandish, outsider, peculiar, quaint, queer, rum, strange, unaccountable, uncanny, unco, unfamiliar, unknown, way-out, weird), esquisito (antic, bizarre, fastidious, freak, funny, peculiar, queer, rum, strange, weird), bizarro (antic, bizarre, freakish, kinky, quaint, weird, whimsical). (various references) | |
Romanian | original (air hole, archetype, authentic, creative, eccentric, first hand, genuine, original, originally, peculiar, queer, real, true, unique), fãrã soţ, accidentat (billowy, broken, bumpy, casualty, hilly, injured, rough, rugged, troubled, uneven, wounded), adiţional (additional, adscititious, further, secondary, subordinate, supplementary), şi ceva, ciudat (cranky, curious, droll, eccentric, extraordinary, extravagant, fanciful, fancy, freakish, funny, intriguing, kinky, out of the way, outlandish, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, singular, strange, strangely, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), curios (agog, curiosity-monger, curious, inquisitive, meddler, particular, paul pry, peculiar, prying, queer, quidnunc, rare, rum, strange, uncommon), de ocazie (occasional), de rãgaz, desperecheat (incomplete, unmatched), întâmplãtor (accidental, accidentally, adventitious, casual, chance, circumstantial, contingent, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, incidentally, occasional, occurrent, random, transient), excentric (bizarre, crackpot, cranky, crazy, crotchety, eccentric, extravagant, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, lunatic, maggot, nut, oddity, original, queer, tappet), suplimentar (accessary, additional, adjective, adscititious, auxiliary, circumstantial, extra, further, incidental, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary), impar (uneven), liber (at a loose end, at large, at leisure, autonomous, available, bast, bondless, clear, disengaged, easily, empty, fetterless, free, go-as-you-please, gracious, gratis, informal, leisured, loose, loosely, naked, off, off duty, open, smooth, spontaneous, unchecked, uncombined, unconstrained, unengaged, unhampered, unhindered, unoccupied, unreserved, vacant, void), neobişnuit (different, exceptional, extraordinary, fresh, novel, out, out of the way, particular, portentous, remarkable, singular, strange, unaccustomed, uncommon, unused, unusual, unwonted), neocupat (available, disengaged, empty, free, idle, open, unoccupied, vacant, void), nepereche, neregulat (broken, disorderly, erratic, fitful, irregular, irregularly, patchy, ragged, rugged, scraggy, snatchy, unequal, uneven), rãzleţ (asunder, solitary, stray), straniu (awesome, bizarre, curiously, eerie, eery, funny, novel, out of the way, particular, peculiar, queer, rum, singular, strange, strangely, uncanny, uncouth, unearthly, weird, whimsical), excedentar. (various references) | |
Russian | странный (bizarre, curious, exotic, freakish, freaky, funny, kinky, left-field, oddish, off-the wall, peculiar, phoney, queer, rummy, strange, unaccountable, unco, vagarious, weird), случайный (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, arbitrary, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, episodic, extemporaneous, extemporary, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, incidental, jobbing, lucky, occasional, passing, promiscuous, punative, random, spurious, stray), решающая взятка, разрозненный (disembodied), чудной (comic, comical, strange), нечетный;странный, нечетный (uneven), нечетное число, необычный (exceptional, extraordinary, king size, left-field, off-beat, one-of-a-kind, out of the ordinary, out of the way, paradoxical, quaint, queer, superordinary, unaccustomed, uncommon, unnatural, unorthodox, unusual), незанятый (easeful, free, idle, unemployed, unoccupied, vacant), непарный (unpaired), лишний (excess, extra, spare, unnecessary, unwanted, waste). (various references) | |
Scottish | neònach (amusing, droll, eccentric, surprising, unusual), ainbi, ainbith. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sporedan (accessary, accessory, adventitious, auxiliary, extrinsic, incidental, indifferent, secondary), rasparen (impaired), neparan broj, neparan, nebitan (inessential, unessential, unsubstantial), dobar udarac u golfu, čudan (eccentric, flaky, funny, miraculous, oddish, peculiar, pixilated, quaint, queer, strange, unco, way out, weird, wondrous). (various references) | |
Spanish | raro (curious, Dandy, definite, dignified, dingy, droll, exotic, extraordinary, extravagant, few and far between, frothy, funny, ichneumon, infrequent, lead, oddball, oddish, odds-on, outlandishness, peculiar, queerish, quirky, rare, rum, scarce, singular, strange, uncanny, unusual, vintage, weird), impar (uneven, unlevel), extraño (alien, bizarre, dago, droll, eerie, extraneous, foreign, kinky, oddish, out of the way, peculiar, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, singular, strange, stranger, uncommon, weird). (various references) | |
Swedish | underlig (curious, erratic, freakish, funny, funny-looking, oddish, peculiar, queer, rum, strange, weird), udda (unequal, uneven), sällsam (rare, strange), konstig (curious, funny, intricate, queer, strange, weird), egendomlig (curious, outlandish, peculiar, singular, strange, unaccountable, whimsical), egen (one's own, own, peculiar, quaint, queer, strange), bisarr (bizarre, camp, far out, outlandish). (various references) | |
Thai | แปลก, เกิดขึ้นบางครั้งบางคราว, ไม่มีคู่, โดยประมาณ (around, by, somewhere), ที่เหลือเป็นเศษ, ที่ห่างไกล, ซึ่งเป็นเลขคี่. (various references) | |
Turkish | tuhaf (antic, bizarre, comical, cranky, curious, droll, erratic, flaky, funnily, funny, funny peculiar, laughable, offbeat, peculiar, peregrine, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, singular, splay, strange, twee, unaccustomed, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), teki olmayan, tek tük (here and there, sporadic, stray), tek (exclusive, fellow, homeo-, homo-, homoeo-, individual, lone, mono-, one, one and only, only, single, singular, sole, solitary, uneven, uni-, unique), sıradışı (extraordinary, offbeat, out of the common, out of type, uncommon, way out), küsur, garip (awkward, bizarre, codger, comical, cranky, crotchety, curious, droll, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, freak, freakish, funny, funny peculiar, grotesque, kinky, out of the way, outlandish, poor, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, strange, weirdo, whimsical), artan (accelerating, growing, leftover, remaining, residual, residuary, surplus, surplusage, upgrade), ara sıra olabilen, acayip (antic, bizarre, bughouse, comical, comically, crotchety, curious, droll, exotic, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, flaky, freak, freakish, grotesque, incongruous, kinky, kooky, novel, out of the way, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, singular, some, splendiferous, strange, uncanny, unco, unusual, weird), acayíp (peculiar, strange). (various references) | |
Turkmen | dagynyk (uncoordinated), bitaя (pairless). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | різний (different, divers, diverse, several, sundry, variant, varied, various), розрізнений (discrete, scattered), чудний (antic, bizarre, droll, erratic, funny, oddball, oddish, outlandish, singular, strange), чудернацький (crotchety, oddball, outlandish, quaint, weird), вільний (broad, devoid, disengaged, disposable, emancipated, exempt, fetterless, for hire, free, leisurely, licentious, loose, off, open, out, quit, unbound), випадковий (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, casual, chance, chanceful, circumstantial, coincidental, contingent, episodic, episodical, eventual, extemporary, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, occasional, occurrent, pickup, promiscuous, random, stray, unpremeditated), нерегулярний (casual, irregular, non-recurring, occasional, snatchy, spasmodic, uneven), незайнятий (dateless, free, idle, not occupied, off, otiose, unemployed, unoccupied, vacant), непарний (azygous, unmatched), зайвий (excessive, excrescent, needless, nimious, otiose, over, redundant, spare, superfluous, surplus), ексцентричний (bizarre, cranky, eccentric, eccentrical, fantastic, fantastical, oddball, oddish, offbeat, outre, queer, wacky, whacky, whimsical), додатковий (accessary, accessory, accidental, additional, adventitious, appendant, appendical, auxiliary, collateral, complementary, expletive, extra, further, more, new, novel, obverse, other, plus, pony, second, secondary, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus), дивний (amazing, astonishing, astounding, bizarre, capricious, curious, freakish, oddball, oddish, offbeat, original, out of the way, outlandish, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, strange, unaccountable, weird, wonderful, wondrous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trên (on, over, upper), rảnh rang bỏ trống, linh tinh kỳ cục, lặt vặt (fiddle-faddle, fiddling, peddling, petty, sundry), lẻ cọc cạch thừa, kỳ quặc rỗi rãi, dư (residuary, spare), có lẻ vặt. (various references) | |
Welsh | od (bizarre, strange), rhyfedd (bizarre, funny, humorous, queer, strange, wonderful). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | bizarre, drole. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Numbers Chapter 3, Verse 48 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai dwseiV to argurion aarwn kai toiV uioiV autou lutra twn pleonazontwn en autoiV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dabisque pecuniam Aaron et filiis eius pretium eorum qui supra sunt |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thou shalt yyue the money to Aaron and his sones, the prijs of hem that ben aboue. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And geue ye money wherewith the odde numbre of them is redemed vnto Aaron ad his sonnes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And thou shalt give to Aaron and to his sons the money, with which the odd number of them is to be redeemed. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And this money, the price of those over the number of the Levites, is to be given to Aaron and his sons. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Numbers Chapter 3, Verse 48 |
| Cebuano | Ug ihatag mo kang Aaron ug sa iyang mga anak nga lalake ang salapi nga kapin nila tungod sa mga lukat. |
| Croatian | Onda podaj taj novac Aronu i njegovim sinovima za otkupninu onih kojih je odviše." |
| Danish | og Pengene skal du give Aron og hans Sønner som Udløsning for de overskydende. |
| Dutch | En gij zult dat geld aan Aaron en zijn zonen geven, het geld der gelosten die onder hen overschieten. |
| Finnish | Ja anna se raha Aaronille ja hänen pojillensa lunastukseksi niistä, joita on yli leeviläisten määrän." |
| French | Tu donneras l`argent à Aaron et à ses fils, pour le rachat de ceux qui dépassent le nombre des Lévites. |
| German | und sollst das Geld für die, so überzählig sind unter ihnen, geben Aaron und seinen Söhnen. |
| Haitian Creole | W'a pran lajan yo peye pou sove lavi sa ki an plis yo, w'a bay Arawon ak pitit gason l' yo. |
| Hungarian | És add azt a pénzt Áronnak és az õ fiainak, váltságul a köztök lévõ számfelettiekért. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | berikan uang itu kepada Harun dan anak-anaknya." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka hendaklah engkau memberikan uang itu kepada Harun dan kepada anak-anaknya laki-laki, yaitu uang tebusan segala orang yang lagi tinggal dari pada mereka itu. |
| Italian | Darai il denaro ad Aronne e ai suoi figli per il riscatto di quelli che oltrepassano il numero dei leviti». |
| Maori | Me hoatu te moni e utua ai nga tuhene o ratou ki a Arona ratou ko ana tama. |
| Norwegian | Og du skal gi Aron og hans sønner disse penger som løsepenger for de overtallige blandt dem. |
| Portuguese | e darás a Arão e a seus filhos o dinheiro da redenção dos que excedem o número entre eles. |
| Rumanian | Sq dai argintul acesta lui Aaron wi fiilor lui, pentru rqscumpqrarea celor ce trec peste numqrul Leviyilor.`` |
| Swedish | Och du skall giva penningarna åt Aron och hans söner såsom lösen för de övertaliga bland folket. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "odd": oddball, oddballs, odder, oddest, oddish, oddities, oddity, oddly, oddment, oddments, oddness, oddnesses, odds, oddsmaker, oddsmakers. (additional references) | |
Words containing "odd": boddhisattva, boddhisattvas, cloddier, cloddiest, cloddish, cloddishness, cloddishnesses, cloddy, codded, codder, codders, codding, coddle, coddled, coddler, coddlers, coddles, coddling, demigoddess, demigoddesses, dodder, doddered, dodderer, dodderers, doddering, dodders, doddery, downtrodden, fodder, foddered, foddering, fodders, goddam, goddammed, goddamming, goddamn, goddamned, goddamning, goddamns, goddams, goddaughter, goddaughters, godded, goddess, goddesses, godding, hodden, hoddens, hoddin, hoddins, mollycoddle. (additional references) | |
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"Odd" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cdd, ddd, Epdd, Goddb, idd, mdd, ndd, Noddfa, oad, oadg, Oadp, obd, Obdc, ocd, od, oda, Odb, Odda, odde, oddi, Oddo, oddr, oddy, oddz, oded, odf, odg, odh, odi, odid, Odm, odn, odo, odod, Ododo, odu, ody, odz, oed, Oedc, Ofd, oidd, Omd, omdh, ond, ood, Opd, oud, ovd, owd, owdy, Ozd, pdd, tdd, udd, Uddm, Ufdc, zodd. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "odd" (pronounced Ä"d) |
| 2 | Ä" d | Ballade, cod, esplanade, facade, God, nod, plod, pod, prod, quad, rod, roughshod, scrod, shod, sod, squad, Tod, trod, wad. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-o" | |
-1 letter: do, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-o" | |
+1 letter: dado, dido, dodo, eddo, odds. | |
+2 letters: boded, coded, dados, didos, dildo, diode, dodge, dodgy, dodos, doled, domed, doped, dosed, doted, dowdy, dowed, dozed, droid, hodad, iodid, kiddo, noddy, odder, oddly, soddy, toddy. | |
+3 letters: aboded, adored, aoudad, bodied, bonded, cloddy, codded, codder, coddle, corded, dadoed, dadoes, decode, demode, demoed, deodar, devoid, didoes, dildoe, dildos, diodes, dioxid, dipody, doated, docked, dodder, dodged, dodgem, dodger, dodges, dodoes, doffed, dogdom, dogged, doiled, doited, dolled, donned, doodad, doodle, doomed, dorado, dorsad, dossed, dotard, dotted, doused, downed, dowsed, droids, droned, droved, drownd, dynode, eddoes, eroded, fodder, folded, fonded, forded, fordid, gadoid, goaded, goddam, godded, hodads, hodden, hoddin, hooded, horded, iodide, iodids, ixodid, kiddos, loaded, lodged, lorded, molded, nodded, nodder, noddle, oddest, oddish, oddity, odored, ogdoad, outadd, outdid, podded, ponded, rodded, shoddy, sodded, sodden, sordid, toddle, voided, woaded, wooded, worded, yodled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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