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odd [ɒd]

a. 奇数的, 古怪的, 剩余的, 零散的, 各种各样的, 少量的

n. 奇特的事物, 怪人

[计] 奇数, 奇校验, 光数据数字转换器

odd

[ adj ]

not divisible by two

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not easily explained

<adj.all>

it is odd that his name is never mentioned

an indefinite quantity more than that specified

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invited 30-odd guests

beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

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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

of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g.

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not used up

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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

Odd \Odd\ ([o^]d), a. [Compar. {Odder} ([o^]d"[~e]r); superl.
{Oddest}.] [OE. odde, fr. Icel. oddi a tongue of land, a
triangle, an odd number (from the third or odd angle, or
point, of a triangle), orig., a point, tip; akin to Icel.
oddr point, point of a weapon, Sw. udda odd, udd point, Dan.
od, AS. ord, OHG. ort, G. ort place (cf. E. point, for change
of meaning).]
1. Not paired with another, or remaining over after a
pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd
shoe; an odd glove.

2. Not divisible by 2 without a remainder; not capable of
being evenly paired, one unit with another; as, 1, 3, 7,
9, 11, etc., are odd numbers.

I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. --Shak.

3. Left over after a definite round number has been taken or
mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a
specified number; extra.

Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was
made, it was destroyed in a deluge. --T. Burnet.

There are yet missing of your company
Some few odd lads that you remember not. --Shak.

4. Remaining over; unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence,
occasional; inconsiderable; as, odd jobs; odd minutes; odd
trifles.

5. Different from what is usual or common; unusual; singular;
peculiar; unique; strange. ``An odd action.'' --Shak. ``An
odd expression.'' --Thackeray.

Syn: extraordinary; queer.

The odd man, to perform all things perfectly, is,
in my poor opinion, Joannes Sturmius. --Ascham.

Patients have sometimes coveted odd things.
--Arbuthnot.

Locke's Essay would be a very odd book for a man
to make himself master of, who would get a
reputation by critical writings. --Spectator.

Syn: Quaint; unmatched; singular; unusual; extraordinary;
strange; queer; eccentric; whimsical; fantastical;
droll; comical. See {Quaint}.

An odd invitation to take Marianne Moore to the circus, for instance, recalls Efforts of Affection, where the two poets feed performing elephants brown bread.
The couple were married in 1962, the year "The Graduate" was published and a year after his graduation from Williams College. Webb, son of a California doctor, epoused odd views even back in college, Davis said.
Such a plan would use odd or even numbers on license plates to assign alternate driving days for the area's 12 million motorists.
First his steering started to stick, then the engine made odd noises.
There are no such good reasons for showing odd episodes from The Buccaneers, The Adventures Of William Tell, The Persuaders and a lot of other ATV series which are banal, repetitive and best forgotten.
"I think basically the banana slug has gotten a bad rap," she said. "They're obviously easy to look down upon, and they do have some odd habits.
Part of the entertainment of the evening is to go home and say, `Did you see that guy with the blond wig and spangled eye shadow?"' Bizarre decor and odd locales help set the clubs' anything-can-happen mood.
There is an odd moment of adjustment when you return from a holiday.
One site has found it can use power lines as a medium for the local area network (Lan) rather than co-axial cable. If you don't mind the odd hiccup in non-essential data transmission this makes some sense.
'After several minutes I realised it was coming from Tony Blair's inner office,' she said. 'I thought it was odd because everybody who works in that area had gone home for the evening.
If the Congress approved a pay raise for the House and not the Senate, "It would be odd," said Sen. Gordon Humphrey, R-N.H., who said he supports raising Senate salaries and eliminating the acceptance of honoraria.
The views of Sud-Ouest on Bosnia seem neither notably exotic nor especially banal over a kir on the terrasse of one's gite. It is one's own newspapers that suddenly seem odd or absurd.
Heavy drinking has less of a brain-scrambling effect on boozers with O-levels than on those without. So it's probably as well that Major downs only the odd one.
Even more interesting is Iso Mustasaari, a 15-minute ferry ride from central Helsinki and home to an odd assortment of attractive old buildings that includes portions of an 18th-century fort built by the Swedes.
The opening of a U.S. fast-food restaurant in China, where cooking has long been considered a culinary art, may seem odd to gourmets.
Some in the City find it odd that Morgan was unaware of his activities.
Clive is the odd man out.
I have played tennis for 25-odd (really odd) years, and have never set foot on a grass court.
There is even the odd Indian or Khmer sculpture.
Each of these would add the odd billion to an already high PSBR; not enough to restore it to the real levels of the crisis-ridden 1970s, but sufficient to cramp the post-election style of the lucky winner.
Sometimes he jotted garden notes on odd sheets of paper.
Gadhafi again was the odd man out.
"I think basically the banana slug has gotten a bad rap," said Hopcraft, who wore a yellow armband Tuesday in memory of Sher's bill. "They're obviously easy to look down upon and they do have some odd habits.
The odd lineup reflects a deep and peculiar division within the administration as Reagan awaits a response from Moscow on when to review the treaty, considered a cornerstone of the arms control process.
They were hobos drifting from town to town, working odd jobs for long hours and low pay, before they decided to form a union whose goal was to abolish capitalism.
Castedo, who grew up in Chile and worked at odd jobs while traveling around the world, was nominated for "Paradise," published by Grove Weidenfeld.
The couple enjoy malt whisky and the odd Chateau Margaux though neither smokes.
"I was thinking it was very odd for him to be flying down that low," Barnsley said. "Nobody's ever down that low.
He sees nothing odd about this approach to medicine.
And what she wants to talk about is her own very odd vision of a utopian society.

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