English-Finnish translations for oddment

Definition of oddment

  • A part of something that is left over, such as a piece of cloth
  • Something that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized; a miscellaneous item
  • An item that was originally part of a set but is sold individually; an excess item of stock.N. H. Mager, ''Prentice Hall Encyclopedic Dictionary of English Usage,'1993, p.263: “'''oddment''part of a broken set.”[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780131571655_0]
  • A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc. .A. M. Hunter and Charles Morris, ''Universal Dictionary of the English Language,'New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, 1897, Ine-Rhe,[https://books.google.ca/books?id=lEzlAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false]R. Terry Ellmore, ''NTC’s Mass Media Dictionary,'Lincolnwood, IL: National Textbook Company, 1991, p.401: “'''oddment'' Separate parts of a book, other than text.”[https://archive.org/details/ntcsmassmediadic0000ellm]
  • A varied collection (''of'items
  • A remaining number or amount (after a calculation
  • Something strange or unusual

Examples

  • an oddment of ribbon / of wood

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