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# odd

«odd» in Mova's school dictionary: **An odd number cannot be split into two equal whole…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (odd, odder, oddest); noun in «odds»

### meaning for a pupil

1) An odd number cannot be split into two equal whole groups, like 1, 3, 5 or 7. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/#m1)

2) Odd also means strange or unusual. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/#m2)

3) Odd means not part of a pair or set: an odd sock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/#m3)

4) Odd can mean «a few, now and then»: odd jobs, the odd sweet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/#m4)

5) «Odd one out» is the one that does not belong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a kind of number (1, 3, 5, …); also «odd one out»; odd and even numbers alternate on a number line. In everyday life: «an odd sock», «odd jobs», «that's odd». In science: an odd result that does not fit may be a mistake or a discovery. In stories: an odd noise, an odd old man.

### examples

- Is 7 an odd number? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/#x1)
- List the odd numbers between 10 and 20. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/#x2)
- He has an odd number of socks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/#x3)
- Find the odd one out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/#x4)
- The houses with odd numbers are on the left side of the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/#x5)
- There was an odd smell in the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/#x6)
- I have one odd sock without its pair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/#x7)
- He does odd jobs to earn pocket money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/#x8)
- That's odd, the door was locked a minute ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/#x9)
- But odd numbers are sometimes considered unlucky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/#x10)

### note

Odd numbers end in 1, 3, 5, 7 or 9. Odd + odd = even; odd + even = odd; odd × odd = odd. Trap: «odd» as «strange» has nothing to do with numbers. Zero is even, not odd. «Odds» means the chance of something happening.

### In the corpora

- [Betting companies set the odds so that, overall, they always make money.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/13/)
- [A family rule like "if anything odd comes on, switch off and tell" makes the next time simple.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/25/)
- [AI pictures sometimes have clues, like odd hands or nonsense writing, but newer ones may have none.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/12-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie/18/)
- [Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs, so no centipede has exactly 100 legs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/15/)
- [Frogs are odd in everyday ways too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/308-frogs-of-the-world-tree-frogs-glass-frogs-flying-frogs-and-the-goliath-frog/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «odd» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/odd/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.