odds : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: odds	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for odds
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
odds n the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another; "he offered odds of two to one" Synonym(s): odds, betting odds
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Odds \Odds\ ([ocr]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. [bd]Pre[89]minent by so much odds.[b8] --Milton. [bd]The fearful odds of that unequal fray.[b8] --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. [bd]These squires at odds did fall.[b8] --Spenser. [bd]He flashes into one gross crime or other, that sets us all at odds.[b8] --Shak. {It is odds}, it is probable. [Obs.]