(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.
Wonders
Definition:
(adv.) See Wondrous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(2) He said: "This is a wonderful town but Tesco will suck the life out of the greengrocers, butchers, off-licence, and then it is only a matter of time for us too.
(3) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(4) But in the rush to design it, Girardet wonders if the finer details of waste disposal and green power were lost.
(5) Two years ago I met a wonderful man and we now feel it’s time to tie the knot.
(6) No evidence has been produced that she was personally involved in the bribery, but some are wondering whether the Petrobras scandal might turn into a Watergate for her.
(7) But she has struggled – quite awkwardly – to articulate her evolution on same-sex marriage, and has left environmental activists wondering what her exact energy policy is.
(8) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(9) Would it best best to risk a Great Reform Bill (shades of 1832) - or would piecemeal reform be best, some wonder?
(10) He added: “From what we’ve seen so far, Londoners can be forgiven for wondering if Zac will be a mayor who works to bring London’s diverse communities together or one who will drive them apart.” Others evince real surprise over Goldsmith’s stance.
(11) Given this bipartisan strategy to minimise commitments, there is little wonder that voter turnout also reached a historical low, with less than two thirds bothering to vote in the east.
(12) As he sits in Athens wondering when the International Monetary Fund is going to deliver another bailout, George Papandreou might be tempted to hum a few lines of Tired of Waiting for You.
(13) KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE "Having watched 42-year-old Kevin Poole turn out for Derby recently, I wondered 'have any grandfathers ever played league football?'
(14) "My wonderful, brave and adored father, Jack Ashley, Lord Ashley of Stoke, has died after a short battle with pneumonia."
(15) Had not Jaggers summoned me to see him on the day of my majority some years later, I might have wondered at the psychological implausibility of an old woman training a child to be a psychopath, but luckily I was so caught up by the possibility of my benefactor's name being revealed that the thought quite slipped my mind.
(16) I believe you are aware of the meeting – and so wondered if 3pm or later on Thursday works for you?
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May dismisses reports of frosty dinner with EU chief as ‘Brussels gossip’ The EU delegation are said to have wondered whether Davis might still be in his post following the general election.
(18) One of the punters came up to me after and said that I seemed confident, but he’d spent the whole time wondering when I was going to tell a joke.
(19) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
(20) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.