odd
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- adjective
- /ɑd/
:
alrededor de
- He found a few odd objects lying on the ground after the storm.
- twenty-odd minutes
- forty-odd people
- thirty-odd teams
I don't know how they did it and it's it's odd bucks a box.
- I don't know how they did it and it's it's odd bucks a box.
- But what I realized is that as I toured, everyone's spent those two odd weeks in a hospital.
Examples
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I scuffed along, alone, scanning the ground, looking for odd, tiny objects that I'd never seen before.
Fiction book (1993) -
Finding himself in New York City performing odd jobs for the British war effort, Maugham arranged the meeting.
Academic text (1997) -
Plus a few odd seconds.
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Now this might mean that I'll be working some odd hours.
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These checks he wrote are for very odd amounts.
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Not to mention a bar, a television, a cellular phone, and some odd kind of computer and printer.
Fiction book (1991) -
In other words, the hundred-odd people whose lives he touches every day, every week.
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"Did you observe any odd behavior?" the wizard asked, receiving an unequivocal negative each time.
Fiction book (1995) -
Since then, he's done odd jobs that have earned him enough to keep clothed but not housed.
Academic text (1999) -
The electronic lifts are over there behind the staircase and then forward of that there are some 30-odd cabins.
Compounds
- Specialized
A way to find errors in data by checking whether the number of ones is odd or even
- Specialized
A leaf made of several small leaf parts with a single part at the tip giving an odd number
- Specialized
A tool with two legs curved the same way used to mark or measure distances on flat metal
- Specialized
An animal with hooves and an odd number of toes, like horses or rhinos
How Exact
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the odd in 'ten-odd years' is to think of odd as meaning an 'extra' or 'a little more' from its old sense of 'left over', so ten-odd years means 'ten plus a bit'.