Talk:odd
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Definitions 1 and 6 have no real difference in meaning
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definitions 1 and 6 have no real difference in meaning
- Not quite convinced. If I wear "odd socks", they are unmatched: it doesn't mean that they are left over when the rest are grouped. Perhaps the second sock of each pair is upstairs and I just chose to wear mismatched ones. Equinox ◑ 09:54, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
- Sure, 'wearing odd socks' refers to 'two unmatched ones', but sense 1 explicitly says: 'Single; sole; singular; not having a mate'. If a sock doesn't have a mate, it's not just that its pair happens to be upstairs. The sentence given as an example for sense 1 mentions a 'drawer of odd socks', which to me sounds not that much different from 'all those socks remaining when the rest have been grouped' (sense 6) - not mismatched pairs of socks but several 'left over' ones.
- Hmm. I looked in Chambers and their def begins "unpaired; left over; additional; extra; not one of a complete set". Equinox ◑ 17:19, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
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[edit]what about thirty some odd ? --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:03, 17 March 2020 (UTC)