Meaning of ODDS
| Pronunciation: | | âdz
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | betting odds, likelihood, likeliness |
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| | Antonyms: | | unlikelihood, unlikeliness | | |
| | See Also: | | probability, ratio | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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