Odds

Definition: Odds

Odds

Noun

1. The probability of a specified outcome.

2. The ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another; "he offered odds of two to one".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "odds" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Odds \Odds\ ([o^]dz), noun. singular & plural [See Odd, adjective]. (references)

Literature

Tips from 1870

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ODDS

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Synonyms: Odds

Chance 2

Probability, possibility, odds; long odds, run of luck; accidentalness; main chance, odds on, favorable odds.

Discord

Variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie; division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach; schism; (dissent); feud, faction.

Inequality

Noun: inequality; disparity, imparity; odds; difference; unevenness; inclination of the balance, partiality, bias, weight; shortcoming; casting weight, make-weight; superiority; inferiority; inequation.

Crosswords: Odds

German (odds), Swedish (odds, price).

Now what would be the odds of that happening (I.Q.; writing credit: Andy Breckman and Michael Leeson.)

I like a man who isn't afraid of bad odds. (JFK; writing credit: Jim Marrs; Jim Garrison)

Never tell me the odds! (Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan.)

The odds are we won't leave this island alive (Jurassic Park III; writing credit: Peter Buchman)

I'll give you three to one odds. (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin)

And you coming back to me is against all odds (Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now); performing artist: Phil Collins)

I'm odds and ends (Take On Me; performing artist: A-ha)

We beat the odds together ("You're Still the One"; performing artist: Shania Twain)

They stack the odds still we take to the street (Eye Of The Tiger; performing artist: Survivor)

And even when them odds are against us (Friends And Family; performing artist: Trik Turner)

The Wizard of Odds (1973)

Beat the Odds (1968)

The Odds Against (1966)

Over the Odds (1961)

Odds 777 (1932)

Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) (performing artist: Phil Collins)

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Books

• Whistler: Against All Odds (reference)

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Periodicals

• High Hopes Long Odds (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Against All Odds (Special Edition) (reference)

• Against All Odds (reference)

• Odds and Evens (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Odds & Sods [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Tales of the Green Beret. As zero hour approaches, a small band of American and South Vietnamese prepares for the challenge of overwhelming enemy odds. Credit: Library of Congress.

China fights on against all odds. Credit: Library of Congress.

A swell smoker--giving long odds. Credit: Library of Congress.

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But to resist force with force, being the state of war that levels the parties, cancels all former relation of reverence, respect, and superiority: and then the odds that remains, is, that he, who opposes the unjust agressor, has this superiority over him, that he has a right, when he prevails, to punish the offender, both for the breach of the peace, and all the evils that followed upon it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Divided, there is little we can do--for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. (reference)

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She was called (r)Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder . In cant, Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder could have given odds to an English miss

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Health

However, the odds of becoming seizure-free after the primary disorder is treated are uncertain and vary depending on the type of disorder, the brain region that is affected, and how much brain damage occurred prior to treatment. (references)

For every 100 patients receiving t-PA, at least 11 more had an excellent recovery compared to the group that did not receive t-PA. The overall odds in favor of the t-PA-treated group were 1.7 times greater than the placebo group. (references)

The odds of becoming seizure-free are not as good for adults, or for children with severe epilepsy syndromes, but it is nonetheless possible that seizures may decrease or even stop over time. This is more likely if the epilepsy has been well-controlled by medication or if the person has had epilepsy surgery. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cuba

Charges of disseminating enemy propaganda, which includes merely expressing opinions at odds with those of the Government, can bring sentences of up to 14 years. (references)

China

Newly nominated bishops seeking unofficial Papal approval frequently find themselves at odds with other church leaders, who are sympathetic to the central Government, and who insist that consecrations of new bishops be conducted by more senior bishops not recognized by the Vatican. (references)

Economic History

Suriname

The parties are at odds over the control of the funds, and needed aid has not flowed to the country. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

Because of its past links to violent groups, the MQM-Altaf has antagonized followers, suffered violent breakaways, and continually been at odds with successive governments. (references)

Croatia

The politicization of hard-line judges appointed by the previous Government, who at times made decisions in a nontransparent manner seemingly at odds with the evidence or the law, also continued to be a problem. (references)

Tuvalu

Local hereditary elders exercise considerable traditional authority--including the right to inflict corporal punishment for infringing customary rules, which can be at odds with the national law; however, corporal punishment is seldom invoked. (references)

Political Economy

EGYPT

Many of these standards are at odds with WTO agreements prohibiting technical barriers to trade. (references)

Worker Rights

Iran

The Government does not tolerate any strike deemed to be at odds with its economic and labor policies. (references)

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Expressions using "odds": against all odds ♦ against long odds ♦ at long odds ♦ at odds ♦ at odds with ♦ be at odds ♦ be at odds with ♦ be at odds with smb. ♦ betting odds ♦ by all odds ♦ by all the odds ♦ by long odds ♦ even odds ♦ favorable odds ♦ give odds ♦ It is odds ♦ it makes no odds ♦ lay odds ♦ lay the odds ♦ long odds ♦ make no odds ♦ make odds even ♦ odds and ends ♦ odds and sods ♦ odds are ♦ odds on ♦ Odds Ratio ♦ over the odds ♦ pay over the odds for smth. ♦ set at odds ♦ slim odds ♦ take odds ♦ take the odds ♦ the odds are ♦ the odds were in his favor ♦ the odds were in his favour ♦ what's the odds ♦ what's the odds to you?. Additional references.

Beginning with "odds": odds-against, odds-and-ends, odds-and-sods, odds-maker, odds-on.

Ending with "odds": against-the-odds, at-odds, disease-odds, ep-odds, exposure-odds, fixed-odds, short-odds.

Containing "odds": it's odds-on that.

Albanian

shans (chance, fortuity, hap, hazard, hit, look in, luck, opening, opportunity, possibility, prayer), probabilitet (expectation, probability), mundësi (capability, capacity, chance, eventuality, handle, ingress, likelihood, look in, opportunity, possibility, potential, potentiality, power, presumption, probability, scope, space, wherewithal), avantazh (advantage, edge, flying start, forehand, interest, lead, one up, pas, self interest, vantage). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرص, ‏محاباة (bias, favor, favoritism, favour, favouritism, one sidedness, partiality, prejudice), ‏نزاع (contention, contest, controversy, difference, disagreement, discord, discordance, disputation, dispute, division, duel, embroilment, fray, quarrel, question, row, spar, squall, strife, struggle, tangle, variance, wont), ‏نصيب (destiny, fortune, lot, luck, portion, quota, share, slice, whack), ‏تحيز (align, favor, favoritism, favour, favouritism, inequality, partiality, prejudice), ‏علاوة المساواة, ‏خلاف (clash, conflict, contention, contest, controversy, difference, disaccord, disagreement, discord, discordance, dispute, dissension, dissidence, disunion, disunity, division, friction, quarrel, question, strife, variance), ‏إحتمالات, ‏أفضلية (advantage, bulge, plus, preference, priority, pull, vantage). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разлика (contradistinction, contrast, difference, distance, distinction, excess, inconformity, margin, variance, variation), хандикап (handicap, odd), шанс (break, chance, expectation, fluke, hazard, look in, show), курс на залагане, кавга (altercation, broil, disagreement, doing, dustup, hassle, jangle, quarrel, row, ruffle, rumpus, run in, scrape, set to, shindig, shindy, strife, warm words, wrangle), несъгласие (clash, discord, discrepancy, disharmony, dissent, jar, non-compliance, rent, split, unwillingness, variance), неравенство (disparity, imparity, inequality), превъзходство (ascendant, cachet, excellence, excellency, predominance, preeminence, preponderance, prepotency, primacy, superiority, supremacy, transcendence), преимущество (advantage, interest, perquisite, privilege, superiority, whip hand). (various references)

Chinese 

可能性 (Possibilities, Possibility, Probabilities, Probability). (various references)

Czech

rozdíl (deficiency, difference, differential, disparity, distinction, divide, excess, gulf, variance, variety), pravdìpodobnost (expectation, likelihood, plausibility, probability, verisimilitude), nestejný poèet, nerovnost (bump, disparity, inequality, roughness, unevenness), nadìje (chance, expectation, expectations, hope, promise, prospect). (various references)

Danish

odds-ratio (odds ratio), logit (log odds, logit). (various references)

Dutch

odds ratio (odds ratio), ziekte odds ratio (disease odds ratio), relatieve odds (relative odds), logit (log odds, logit). (various references)

Farsi 

فرق (Difference, Head, Inequality, Top, Vertex), مغایرت (Aversion, Contrast, Repugnance, Variance), نابرابری (Inequality, Unlikelihood), تمایل بیک سو, عدم توافق (Discordance, Disparity, Maladjustment, Variance), احتمالات , احتمال ووقوع , شانس (Chance, Fortuity, Fortune, Luck). (various references)

Finnish

tasoitus (levelling, trimming), irtotakki ja housut. (various references)

French

cote. (various references)

German

Chancen (prospects), Ungleichheit (difference, disparity, dissimilarity, diversity, imbalance, imparity, inequality, unevenness), Odds (chance, Verhaltnisziffer). (various references)

Greek 

πιθανότητες (chances), πιθανότητα (chance, likelihood, possibility, potential, presumption, probability, verisimilitude, vraisemblance), υπεροχή (ascendancy, dominance, eminence, excellence, forte, overbalance, pre eminence, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prevailingness, primacy, superbness, superiority, supremacy, supremeness, transcendence, transcendency, virtue), ανισότησ (disparity, inequality, unevenness), ανισότητα (disparity, inequality, unevenness), διαφορά (contrast, difference, differentiation, discrepancy, sundries, variance, variant, variation). (various references)

Hebrew 

יתרון (advantage, gain, plus, preponderance, profit, superiority), תנאי המור, קטטה (affray, altercation, brawl, fight, fray, quarrel, squabble, strife), עדיפות (precedence, preferability, preference, priority, superiority, supremacy), אי שויון (disparity, inequality), ריב (conflict, contention, dispute, dissension, fight, quarrel, squabble, strife), סכויים (outlook, the running). (various references)

Hungarian

esély (chance). (various references)

Indonesian

perselisihan (clash, discord, discordance, dissension, dissidence, words). (various references)

Italian

disuguaglianza (difference, imparity, inequality, unevenness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

勝ち目 (chance), 分 (branch, chance of winning, degree, detached, dividing, duty, kind, lot, minute, one percent, one-hundredth of a shaku, one-quarter of a ryou, one's lot, one's status, part, percentage, rate, ration, relation, segment, share, thickness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぶ (category, chance of winning, counter for copies of a newspaper or magazine, department, despise, make light of, one percent, one-hundredth of a shaku, one-quarter of a ryou, part, percentage, rate, thickness), かちめ (chance). (various references)

Korean 

확율 (Probabilities, Probability). (various references)

Manx

corrillagh (balance, balance in credit, balance remainder, fraction, margin, ratio). (various references)

Pig Latin

oddsay.(various references)

Portuguese

probabilidade (expectance, expectancy, expectation, likelihood, probability, prospect). (various references)

Romanian

sorţi de izbândã, sorţi (lot, star), neînţelegere (difference, disagreement, dissension, friction, misapprehension, misconception, misunderstanding, rupture), distanţã (aloofness, difference, distance, elongation, interval, length, offishness, range, remoteness, remove, run, space, standoffishness, step), diferenţã (difference, disagreement, disparity, dissimilarity, distinction, observance, otherness), dezacord (contrariety, disaccord, disagreement, discord, discrepancy, dissension, dissidence, dissonance, divergence, divergency, division, jar, misunderstanding, split, variance), decalaj (advance, difference, disparty, gap), şanse, avantaj (account, advantage, avail, benefit, boon, convenience, edge, gain, good, interest, plus, point, profit, vantage). (various references)

Russian 

разница (difference). (various references)

Scottish

còrr (eminent, excess, extraordinary; corra, odds : a' chòrr, remainder, the rest, when prefixed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zavada (discord, dispute, feud, quarrel), svađa (affray, altercation, brawl, contention, disagreement, hassle, quarrel, rhubarb, spat, squabble), nadmoćnost (domination, excellence, pre eminence, preeminence, superiority), mogućnosti, izgledi (outlook), davanje prednosti. (various references)

Spanish

posibilidades. (various references)

Swedish

utsikter (expectations). (various references)

Thai

โอกาสที่จะเป็นไปได้. (various references)

Turkish

olasılık (chance, contingency, eventuality, expectation, likelihood, plausibility, possibility, potentiality, presumption, probability, prospect, verisimilitude), kavga (affray, brawl, brawling, broil, bust up, conflict, contention, dispute, feud, fight, fighting, fray, jangle, jar, kick up, miff, punch-up, quarrel, row, rumpus, scrap, scuffle, set to, shooting match, strife, tilt, unpleasantness, wrangle), ihtimal (chance, contingency, eventuality, likelihood, possibility, potentiality, presumption, probability, prospect, sight, verisimilitude), fark (cachet, contradistinction, difference, differentiation, disparity, distinction, distinctness, gap, variation), şans (auspiciousness, chance, fluke, flukey, fluky, fortune, good luck, hap, hazard, hit, inning, innings, luck, opportunity, shot, show, star, turnup), avantaj (advance, advantage, avail, benefit, head start, start, vantage, whip hand), anlaşmazlık (conflict, controversy, disaccord, disagreement, discord, discordance, dissension, disunion, disunity, divided counsel, division, embroilment, fight, friction, imbroglio, incompatiblity, mix up, quarrel, run in, strife), üstünlük (advantage, altitude, ascendancy, ascendency, beat, championship, class, distinction, dominance, edge, eligibility, excellence, head start, hegemony, lordship, mastery, overweight, pre eminence, precedence, predominance, preponderance, primacy, spirit, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, whip hand). (various references)

Ukrainian

сварка (altercation, broil, controversy, embroilment, jangle, muss, quarrel, shindy, squabble, upset), різниця (abattoir, butchery, difference, otherness), шанси, гандикап (handicap), нерівність (asperity, imparity, inequality, prominence, prominency, roughness), незгоди (friction), перевага (advantage, allowance, ascendant, asset, benefit, boon, bulge, capital, convenience, easement, excellence, excellency, overbalance, overweight, precedence, precedency, preference, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, privilege, pull, purchase, start, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, vantage). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tình trạng tiền cuộc đã đặt xong xuôi (odds-on), chắc ăn (odds-on). (various references)

Welsh

petheuach (odds and ends, trifles). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "odds": oddsmaker, oddsmakers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Odds" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ddsi, dods, Hoddis, Obdc, od, odas, Odb, odbs, Odda, Oddas, oddds, odde, oddesy, oddi, oddish, oddisy, Oddo, oddr, oddy, oddz, odh, odid, odis, odod, odu, ody, odz, Oedc, oidd, oids, omdh, Onds, oods, Ords, oudes, ouds, ovd, Uddm, Udds, Udts, Ufdc, zodd. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dos, odd, ods, sod.

-2 letters: do, od, os, so.

+1 letter: dados, didos, dodos, dosed, soddy.

+2 letters: dadoes, didoes, dildos, diodes, dodges, dodoes, dorsad, dossed, doused, dowsed, droids, eddoes, hodads, iodids, kiddos, oddest, oddish, shoddy, sodded, sodden, sordid.

+3 letters: aoudads, codders, coddles, decodes, deodars, deposed, desmoid, despond, dildoes, dioxids, discoed, discoid, discord, dodders, dodgems, dodgers, dodoism, dogdoms, dogsled, doodads, doodles, dorados, dotards, dowdies, drownds, drowsed, dynodes, fodders, gadoids, goddams, goddess, godsend, hoddens, hoddins, iodides, iodised, ixodids, kiddoes, nodders, noddies, noddles, oddness, ogdoads, outadds, scolded, seedpod, shodden, skiddoo, snooded, soddens, soddies, sodding, sounded, stodged, toddies, toddles.