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oddify en · VERB

Etymology

From odd + -ify.

Meanings

1. To cause to appear strange.
   • 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. 1975, Edward Blishen, The thorny paradise: writers on writing for children, page 56:
   • Processes are turned into objects, new language games are created to oddify everyday language and objectify social practices. 1993, Jyvèaskylèa studies in education, psychology, and social research:
   • The work shows us how it is now, with the nostalgia of the musee oddified by idiosyncratic clutter from Toothy the Tooth to Asteroids. 2006 -, Rodney Koeneke, Musee mechanique, →ISBN, page 94:
   • This raises a question: are behaviourist studies using a new vocabulary and a new language that actually creates distance and 'oddifies' the everyday? 2013, Terrell Carver, Matti Hyvarinen, Interpreting the Political: New Methodologies, →ISBN, page 90:
2. To make odd (not even).
   • 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): 2007, Gautier H.A. Juynboll, Encyclopedia of Canonical Ḥadīth, →ISBN, page 49:
   • The inverse quantized coefficients are oddified following the MPEG-1 (and H.261) method. 1997, Joan L. Mitchell, Chad Fogg, Didier J. LeGall, MPEG Video Compression Standard, →ISBN, page 417:
   • 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. 2002, IEEE Signal Processing Society, Proceedings, →ISBN, page 127:

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