(n.) The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.
(n.) That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.
Example Sentences:
(1) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
(2) A curious mixture, born in South Africa and living on the Isle of Man, he draws on the oddities of both as a source for gags.
(3) The experiments do not support the attribution to pigeons of a general "oddity concept."
(4) The interest lies in the oddity of this pathology and in the unusual clinical form of dysphagia.
(5) Subjects who had acquired a conceptual oddity rule in the training had a strong tendency to sample hypotheses by the prior rule, but subjects under conditions where a perceptual-oddity rule was relevant tended to make a shift to a cue from new (conceptual oddity) rule.
(6) The cross-modal effect also shows that oddity learning is independent of a specific modality-labeled perceptual context.
(7) The goal felt like an oddity, such was the pattern of the match, with various Arsenal supporters already heading for the exits.
(8) Equalities minister Jo Swinson is right to point out that fathers who take paternity leave, or simply take their turn calling in absent because a child is sick, are often mocked or considered oddities, if not nuisances, in the workplace.
(9) Oddity performance increased over age, with the non-LD children performing consistently better than their LD peers at each age.
(10) Perhaps, suggests the Gemora Sanhedrin, facing up to the oddity of the verse about Ham seeing his father's nakedness, it means either that Ham castrated his father, or that he sodomised him.
(11) Critics feast on Hayley's straight-talking manner, her Oasis trouser suits and her neck scarves, like she's some sort of wondrous oddity.
(12) Profumo was an oddity – a randy politician à la JFK in a dry-balled, homophobic, strait-laced Tory administration.
(13) This paper reviews concept learning in Cebus monkeys, focussing on their ability to use the identity relation, oddity and natural concepts.
(14) When tests displayed identical stimuli, patterns of comparison selection suggested control by generalized identity and oddity.
(15) In 14 patients with secondary odditis, a biopsy of the papilla was studied, in one case encountering moderate peri and intrafascicular fibrosis and in another, erosion of the papillary mucosa with impaction of biliary material.
(16) Although most readers consider medical publications to be somber and somnifacient, a critical eye will discover a remarkable array of absurdities and assorted other oddities, totally unintended by the authors.
(17) Yet while he became fascinated by pomp, power and influence, he remained equally curious about oddity and the simple life.
(18) In July 1969 Bowie released Space Oddity , the song that would give him his initial commercial breakthrough.
(19) Oddity performance was evaluated with both reversal assessments and assessments with new sets of stimuli.
(20) Nineteen mildly or moderately retarded subjects were presented 32 oddity-training trials per day for 10 days with all new etimuli presented on each trial.
Oddness
Definition:
(n.) The state of being odd, or not even.
(n.) Singularity; strangeness; eccentricity; irregularity; uncouthness; as, the oddness of dress or shape; the oddness of an event.
Example Sentences:
(1) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(2) Odds ratios were computed by multiple logistic regression analysis and revealed no additional relationships; however, there were suggested dose-response gradients for height, weight at age 20, and body surface area in the Japanese women and for breast size in the Caucasian women.
(3) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
(4) The adjusted odds ratio of having one or more hospitalization for current drinkers relative to life-long abstainers in females was 0.67 (95 per cent confidence interval 0.57-0.79) and in males was 0.74 (0.57-0.96).
(5) At concentrations below the respective median for each variable, odds ratios of between 1.42 and 1.67 were calculated whereas at concentrations above the respective medians the odds ratios ranged from 4.50 to 6.33 (P less than 0.001).
(6) And that ancient Basque cultural gem – the mysterious language with its odd Xs, Ks and Ts – will be honoured at every turn in a city where it was forbidden by Franco.
(7) The odds are that Zuckerberg will one day face an opponent that can't be bought."
(8) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(9) All variables except perceived personal risk were found to be significantly related to the intention to provide medical care although knowledge showed the weakest relationship (Odds Ratio = 2.14).
(10) Patients with cancer of floor of the mouth and oral tongue had higher odds ratios for alcohol drinking than subjects with cancers of other sites.
(11) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
(12) Matched-pair analysis yielded an odds ratio of 7.0 with a 95% confidence interval of 1.7 to 28.
(13) When the 2 preinvasive disease categories were combined, an elevated odds ratio of borderline significance was found for 2 of the 3 lower quintiles for the 4 low quintiles combined.
(14) Among all subgroups, the odds ratios adjusted for pertinent confounders and interactions fluctuated randomly by about 0.9 and showed no consistent trend with increased alcohol consumption.
(15) Case mothers were more likely to report occupational exposure to metals (odds ratio [OR] = 8.0, P = 0.01), petroleum products (OR = 3.7, P = 0.03), and paints or pigments (OR = 3.7, P = 0.05).
(16) Regardless of age, smoking pack-years, and nasal allergic reactions, the prevalence of asthma was significantly associated with the use of carbamate insecticides (prevalence odds ratio = 1.8, 95% confidence interval: 1.1 to 3.1, p = 0.02).
(17) Belfast in Odd Man Out Released in 1947, directed by Carol Reed Facebook Twitter Pinterest Carol Reed is a brilliant director of cities in films.
(18) Human immunodeficiency virus infection was significantly higher for those women who acknowledge intravenous drug use (odds ratio 12.9, 95% confidence interval 7.3 to 22.7), were born in Haiti (odds ratio 2.6, 95% confidence interval 1.6 to 4.1), lacked prenatal care (odds ratio 2.2, 95% confidence interval 1.1 to 4.2), or received prenatal care at the hospital clinic versus a neighborhood health center (odds ratio 3.0, 95% confidence interval 1.7 to 5.3).
(19) Using the Mantel-Haenszel estimate of the odds ratio, no association was found between the number of moves and MS.
(20) The occurrence of gastric parietal cell antibody (PCA) and smooth muscle antibody (SMA) was not associated with practolol therapy (odds ratio of 2-4 and 1-9 respectively).