Odds
[ɒdz] or [ɑdz]
Definition
(noun.) the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring.
(noun.) the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another; 'he offered odds of two to one'.
Typist: Owen--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality; advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances; probability.
(a.) Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phrase at odds.
Inputed by Logan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. sing. & pl. Difference, disparity, inequality.
Editor: Martin
Examples
- His tools were old bottles, glasses, tobacco-pipes, teacups, and such odds and ends as he could find. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- That makes no odds. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A day makes no such odds. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The odds are enormous against its being coincidence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Give out by driblets, and never inquire for odds and ends,--it isn't beSt. That troubles me, Augustine. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- What odds, dear boy? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- What's the odds where it comes from? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It's too bad, for there is no time to make other things, and I don't want to fill up with odds and ends. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They fought with desperate valor, but to no purpose; the odds of heat and numbers, and consuming thirst, were too great against them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- What odds in that? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Never, until I saw you fight, had I seen one who seemed unconquerable even in the face of great odds. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Those days were heroic ones, for he then battled against mighty odds, and the prospects were dim and not very encouraging. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The odds sheets showed he would pay thirty-five to one. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There's no great odds betwixt us. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In the year 179-, when he was just clear of these incumbrances, he gave the odds of 100 to 1 (in twenties) against Kangaroo, who won the Derby. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Edited by Karl