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A miscellany
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odds and ends
Word definitions for odds and ends in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a motley assortment of things [syn: oddments , melange , farrago , ragbag , hodgepodge , mishmash , mingle-mangle , hotchpotch , omnium-gatherum ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Odds \Odds\ ([o^]dz), n. sing. & pl. [See Odd , a.] 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. The odds are often expressed ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ We packed just about everything, but probably left some odds and ends behind. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Cheerful little odds and ends arranged with flair can often make a room seem far more interesting than much grander collections. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) miscellaneous things.
Usage examples of odds and ends.
You're not the first to come out with a little cloth sack of odds and ends.
I had a poshteen in my valise, and had gathered a few odds and ends since coming to Lahore - Persian boots, pyjamys and sash for lounging on the hotter days, and the like.
There were some personal odds and ends she would have liked to take with her, but she could send for them from Manon.
You wouldn't think somebody in this day and age could have bought clothes, jewelry, accessories, and a purse full of odds and ends, without leaving any traces in the vendors' computer systems, or buying anything that would give away her origins.
She furnished him some little odds and ends of employment, which he got through with after a fair fashion and with some credit.
Even I have never seen it, and you only get the odds and ends you need to know.
Pham remembered the name from the list of odds and ends the Skroderiders had scrounged up.
That unknown Gypsy had settled instead at one of those camping grounds, and had built not only living quarters for himself and his family, but a bathhouse, a laundry, and a trading post, and had begun selling odds and ends to the others who came to camp.
It was one of two, being the larger, and now contained only a few odds and ends of little importance.
Which herbs were better than others for headaches, fragments of old stories, odds and ends like that.
He clamped an antigrav handler onto one of the generators and moved it to the waiting sled--thank goodness both items were standard equipment for a cargo shuttle, and that he'd chosen to leave them in place on the Collins when he'd loaded the extra space with odds and ends that might come in handy on this assignment.
However in his panic to get clear of retribution he'd left enough odds and ends of only partly destroyed information to be useful.
He held on to his airline hold-all with its tin of Greek olive oil, its towel, its crumpled postcards of Santorini and its other odds and ends.