(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.
Phenomenon
Definition:
(n.) An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light, or electricity; phenomena of imagination or memory.
(n.) That which strikes one as strange, unusual, or unaccountable; an extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence; as, a musical phenomenon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
(2) We conclude that the priming effect is not a clinically significant phenomenon during natural pollen exposure in allergic rhinitis patients.
(3) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
(4) Post-irradiation hypertonic treatment inhibited both DNA repair and PLD recovery, while post-irradiation isotonic treatment inhibited neither phenomenon.
(5) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
(6) This phenomenon is age dependent and more pronounced in animals with sever autoimmune disease.
(7) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.
(8) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
(9) The phenomenon can be ascribed to the decrease in charge density due to the incorporation of dodecyl alcohol into SDS micelles.
(10) They clearly demonstrate the phenomenon of mast cells degranulation.
(11) Reconstituted freeze dried allogeneic skin grafts contained virtually no blood, a phenomenon possibly analogous to the 'no reflow' phenomenon of microsurgery.
(12) The patient was a forty-five-year-old female who had been troubled by obstinate Raynaud's phenomenon for ten years before the definite diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension was made.
(13) The presence of the positive-off diagonal of the second-order kernel of respiratory control of heart rate is an indication of an escape-like phenomenon in the system.
(14) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
(15) Additional presumptive evidence indicated that this resistance phenomenon is not mediated extrachromosomally, but rather chromosomally.
(16) This phenomenon can have a special significance for defining the vitality in inflammation of bone tissue, in burns and in necrosis of soft tissues a.a. of the Achilles tendon.
(17) After primary challenge the phenomenon was neither observed in normal animals nor in animals effectively immunized against tumor.
(18) This phenomenon may be overcome by utilizing more dextran-coated charcoal in the extraction.
(19) The influential Belgian scientist Quetelet demonstrated a remarkable scotoma towards the phenomenon.
(20) CoQ10 suppressed the mentioned phenomenon in regenerating liver.