odd
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 →
2) Odd also means strange or unusual. tree →
3) Odd means not part of a pair or set: an odd sock. tree →
4) Odd can mean «a few, now and then»: odd jobs, the odd sweet. tree →
5) «Odd one out» is the one that does not belong. tree →
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 →
- List the odd numbers between 10 and 20. tree →
- He has an odd number of socks. tree →
- Find the odd one out. tree →
- The houses with odd numbers are on the left side of the street. tree →
- There was an odd smell in the kitchen. tree →
- I have one odd sock without its pair. tree →
- He does odd jobs to earn pocket money. tree →
- That's odd, the door was locked a minute ago. tree →
- But odd numbers are sometimes considered unlucky. tree →
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.
- A family rule like "if anything odd comes on, switch off and tell" makes the next time simple.
- AI pictures sometimes have clues, like odd hands or nonsense writing, but newer ones may have none.
- Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs, so no centipede has exactly 100 legs.
- Frogs are odd in everyday ways too.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «odd» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.