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odds

n. pl..துண்டுத்துணுக்குகள், உயர்வுதாழ்வு, வேற்றுமை, மனவேறுபாடு, சச்சரவு, சாதகநிலை, போடடியில் பிற்பட்டவர்க்குரிய சலுகை, விட்டுக்கொடுக்கும் வீதாச்சாரச் சலுகை, நகைக்கூறு, வருநிலை வாய்ப்பு, நிகழ இருப்பது.


Odds, n. sing. & pl. Etym: [See Odd, a.] 1. 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. "Preëminent by so much odds." Milton. "The fearful odds of that unequal fray." Trench. The odds Is that we scare are men and you are gods. Shak. There appeared, at least, four to one odds against them. Swift. All the odds between them has been the different s "cope....given to their understandings to range in. Locke. Judging is balancing an account and determining on which side the odds lie. Locke. 2. Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phraze at odds. Set them into confounding odds. Shak. I can not speak Any beginning to this peevish odds. Shak. At odds, in dispute; at variance. "These squires at odds did fall." Spenser. "He flashes into one gross crime or other, that sets us all at odds." Shak. -- It is odds, it is probable. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. -- Odds and ends, that which is left; remnants; fragments; refuse; scraps; miscellaneous articles. "My brain is filled...with all kinds of odds and ends." W. Irving.


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