Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To take an overdose.
- intransitive verb To have or experience too much of something; overindulge.
- noun An overdose of a drug.
- noun One who has taken an overdose.
- abbreviation Doctor of Optometry
- abbreviation officer of the day
- abbreviation outer diameter
- abbreviation overdraft
- abbreviation overdrawn
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- initialism
Overdose . - initialism
Doctor ofOptometry . - initialism
Overdrive . - initialism
Overdraft . - initialism Optical density
- initialism
Outer diameter of a pipe or tube. - initialism Australia
over dimension , used on route numbers for large vehicles, and normally followed by a numeral, eg OD5. - initialism management Organization development.
- verb informal To take an
overdose of adrug , to overdose.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And OD is short for oculus dexter, or right eye, not for overdose.
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And OD is short for oculus dexter, or right eye, not for overdose.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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And OD is short for oculus dexter, or right eye, not for overdose.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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But if you really want to sell your stories to the MMs, month after month, do what I do: Go into their office in OD with a silenced Ruger .22 in your hand and ask to speak to the head muck-muck.
mtrimm1: Well, Whaddya Know? mtrimm1 2009
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In OD&D/Swords&Wizardry it’s roll stats pick race/class let’s pick MU record alignment record spells per day off of MU table roll hitpoints 9 (d6-1) + 5 btw record save (in OD&D this is table so no need to record)
How Much Does Character Optimization Count? « Geek Related 2009
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ET on the same network that will air season two of the singer's reality show, "Fantasia For Real," in September -- Barrino confirms that her OD was a suicide attempt.
Is Fantasia Barrino taking the right steps following her suicide attempt? 2010
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The vertical axis, labelled OD, which stands for optical density or ‘cloudiness’, is a measure of population size in the flask.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The vertical axis, labelled OD, which stands for optical density or ‘cloudiness’, is a measure of population size in the flask.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Technically, we played what these days might be called OD&D1974, but what the players wrote on their notebooks, along with name, as in school, was in fact Ur-D&D, so I went with that.
le joueur prussien 2010
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Technically, we played what these days might be called OD&D1974, but what the players wrote on their notebooks, along with name, as in school, was in fact Ur-D&D, so I went with that.
le joueur prussien 2010
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