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Meaning of oddify | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. To cause to appear strange.
  2. To make odd (not even).

Examples

“And since, as I suggested at the beginning of this essay, all people are alike in being somewhat odd, and since all writers are alike in being similarly oddified in their work, it may be that many children's writers will agree that their own reasons for doing what they do are not very dissimilar from mine.”
“Processes are turned into objects, new language games are created to oddify everyday language and objectify social practices.”
“The work shows us how it is now, with the nostalgia of the musee oddified by idiosyncratic clutter from Toothy the Tooth to Asteroids.”
“This raises a question: are behaviourist studies using a new vocabulary and a new language that actually creates distance and 'oddifies' the everyday?”
“The inverse quantized coefficients are oddified following the MPEG-1 (and H.261) method.”
“Put another way, bit-for-bit, there will be little difference between the original dequantized data and the corresponding oddified data after they are converted to LNS for F < 6.”
“With a strand on the authority of 'Āșim b. Ḑamra—'Alī b. Abī Ṭa-lib on the supererogatory nightly prayer, which 'oddifies', i.e. makes the total number of rak'as performed by an individual that day odd (i.e. witr):”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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