The odd

Definition

odd /ɒd/ adj (-er, -est) ၁။ (က) တစ္မူထူးေသာ။ ျဖစ္႐ိုး ျဖစ္စဥ္မဟုတ္ေသာ။ ထူးဆန္းေသာ။ ထူးျခားေသာ။ an odd tale ❍ All this is very odd. ❍ You find his books in the oddest places. ❍ The oddest thing about it was its colour. (ခ) ( often derog ) ေၾကာင္တိေၾကာင္ေတာင္။ She lives with some very odd characters. ❍ What an odd man! ၂။ မ ကိန္း။ မ ဂဏန္း။ 1, 3, 5 and 7 are odd numbers. Compare EVEN 2 ၄ ၃။ (က) ဘက္ပဲ့ေနေသာ (သို႔) ကြၽဲတစ္ဖက္ ႏြားတစ္ဖက္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ an odd shoe/glove ❍ two odd volumes of an encyclopedia ❍ You're wearing odd socks (ie two that do not form a pair). (ခ) အတိုအထြာ။ She made a cushion out of odd bits of material. ၄။ သာသာ။ five hundred odd (ie slightly more than 500) ❍ thirty-odd (ie between 30 and 40) years later. ၅။ ႀကိဳးၾကားႀကိဳးၾကား။ တစ္ခါတေလ။ တစ္ခု တေလ။ weed the garden at odd times/ moments ❍ The landscape was bare except for the odd cactus. ❍ I read very little—only the odd magazine. ၆။ (often the odd ) ပိုလွ်ံေနေသာ၊ ေပးႏိုင္ေသာ (အခ်ိန္၊ ေငြ စသည္)။ When you've got an odd five minutes, I'd like to speak to you. ❍ Can you spare the odd 50p for a cup of tea, sir? ❏ odd- (forming compound adjs ) (တစ္မူထူးေသာ၊ ေၾကာင္ေသာ စသည့္ အနက္ေဆာင္ေသာ ေရွ႕ဆက္)။ an odd-looking house ❍ an odd-sounding name. ❏ odd job man /mæn/ n ( pl men /-men/) ေတာက္တိုမည္ရ အလုပ္သမား။ ❏ odd jobs n [pl] ေတာက္တိုမည္ရ။ လက္တိုလက္ေတာင္း။ က်ပန္း။ do odd jobs around the house. ❏ oddly adv ထူးထူးဆန္းဆန္း။ ထူးထူးျခားျခား။ ေၾကာင္တိ ေၾကာင္ေတာင္။ အူေၾကာင္ေၾကာင္။ behave oddly ❍ be oddly dressed ❍ She looked at him very oddly. ❍ Oddly enough, we were just talking about the same thing. ❏ the/an odd man/one out [ IDM ] ၁။ ဘက္ပဲ့ က်န္ေနရစ္ သူ။ There's always an odd man out when the children are divided into teams. ၂။ တစ္မူထူးျခားသူ၊ အရာ။ Banana, grape, apple, rose—which of these is the odd one out? ၃။ ( infml ) အံမဝင္ ခြင္မက်သူ။ အထီးက်န္။ At school she always felt the odd one out. ❏ oddness n [U] တစ္ဘာသာ။ အူေၾကာင္ေၾကာင္ႏိုင္ျခင္း။ the oddness of her appearance ❍ His oddness frightened her.

Examples

1. Harry’s behaviour did seem a little odd.
2. His paintings are a rather odd mixture of German and British influences.
3. [it is odd (that)] : It’s very odd that he hasn’t sent you a birthday present.
4. [strike someone as odd] : It struck me as odd that there was no reply to my letter.
5. [odd-sounding] : An odd-sounding name
6. [odd-looking] : The children were very odd-looking in their costumes.
7. [the odd thing is (that)] : But the odd thing was that I didn’t feel guilty.
8. [that’s odd] : That’s odd
9. I thought I left my coat on the chair.
10. The weather will remain cloudy with odd showers here and there.
11. [the/an odd something] : I enjoy the odd beer now and again (=I like to have a beer sometimes) .
12. The file was stuffed with notes and odd bits of paper.
13. Odd socks/shoes/gloves
14. He must be sixty odd (=about 60 years old).
15. There were 200 odd people in the room.