Odd vs Diverge - What's the difference?
odd | diverge |
(not comparable) Single; sole; singular; not having a mate.
(obsolete) Singular in excellence; unique; sole; matchless; peerless; famous.
Singular in looks or character; peculiar; eccentric.
Strange, unusual.
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(not comparable) Occasional; infrequent.
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(not comparable) Left over, remaining when the rest have been grouped.
(not comparable) Casual, irregular, not planned.
(not comparable, in combination with a number, not comparable) About, approximately.
(not comparable) Not divisible by two; not even.
(intransitive, literally, of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
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To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
(intransitive, literally, of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
To become different, to separate (from another line or path).
Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
As an initialism odd
is oppositional defiant disorder.As a verb diverge is
.odd
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.
Synonyms
* (not having a mate) single, mismatched * (strange) bizarre, peculiar, queer, rum, strange, unusual, weird, fremd * (about) about, approximately, around * See alsoAntonyms
* (not divisible by two) evenDerived terms
* oddball * odd duck * odd one out * oddsAnagrams
* *diverge
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Verb
(diverg)- Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both /
- Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.
- The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.
- The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.
- The sequence diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.