About The Word Odds
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Odds
Odds Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Odds?
[n] the probability of a specified outcome
[n] the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another; "he offered odds of two to one" Synonyms | Synonyms for Odds: betting odds | likelihood | likeliness Related Terms | Find terms related to Odds: advantage | agreement to disagree | allowance | aptitude | asymmetry | at daggers drawn | at loggerheads | at odds | at variance | bulge | chance | chances | clashing | coign of vantage | conflicting | contrariety | contrast | cross-purposes | deadwood | debris | departure | deviation | difference | difference of opinion | differing | difficulty | disaccord | disaccordance | disagreeing | disagreement | disconformity | discongruity | discordance | discrepancy | discreteness | disequilibrium | disparity | disproportion | dissent | dissimilarity | dissonance | distinction | distinctness | divergence | divergency | diversity | dividedness | division | draw | drop | edge | equivalent odds | even break | even chance | expectation | fair expectation | fair shake | far cry | favorable prospect | fifty-fifty | flying start | fragments | good chance | half a chance | handicap | head start | heterogeneity | hundred-to-one shot | imbalance | in disagreement | in opposition | inaccordance | inadequacy | incompatibility | incongruity | inconsistency | inconsonance | inequality | inequity | inharmonious | inharmoniousness | inharmony | injustice | inside track | insufficiency | irreconcilability | irregularity | jump | lead | leavings | leftovers | liability | likelihood | likeliness | litter | long odds | long shot | misunderstanding | mixture | no chance | nonconformity | nonuniformity | oddments | odds and ends | opposition | otherness | out of line | outlook | overbalance | particles | polarization | presumption | presumptive evidence | price | probabilism | probability | prospect | reasonable ground | reasonable hope | rubbish | running start | scraps | separateness | short odds | shortcoming | shreds | small chance | something extra | something in reserve | square odds | standoff | start | superiority | tendency | toss | toss-up | touch and go | unbalance | unconformity | unevenness | unfair discrimination | unlikeness | unorthodoxy | upper hand | vantage | vantage ground | vantage point | variance | variation | variegation | variety | verisimilitude | well-grounded hope | whip hand See Also | probability | ratio Odds In Webster's Dictionary \Odds\ ([o^]dz), n. sing. & pl. [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. ``Pre["e]minent by so much odds.'' --Milton.
``The fearful odds of that unequal fray.'' --Trench.
The odds Is that we scarce 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
scope . . . 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 phrase
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.]
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