od
Pronunciation: (od, ōd), [key]
— n.
- a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
Od
Pronunciation: (od), [key]
— interj. Archaic.
- a shortened form of “God” (used interjectionally and in minced oaths).
OD
Pronunciation: (ō'dē'), [key]
— n., pl. v., ODs OD's, OD'd ODed OD'ed, OD'ing OD•ing.
—n.
- an overdose of a drug, esp. a fatal one.
- a person who has taken an overdose of a drug, esp. one who has become seriously ill or has died from such an overdose.
—v.i.
- to take an overdose of a drug.
- to die from an an overdose of a drug.
- to have or experience an excessive amount or degree of something.
OD
- See
- Old Dutch.
- Ordnance Department.
- outside diameter.
od
- on demand.
- outside diameter.
- outside dimensions.
- overdraft.
- overdrawn.
OD.
- Old Dutch.
O.D.
- Doctor of Optometry.
- (in prescriptions) the right eye.
- See
- Old Dutch.
- (of a military uniform) olive drab.
- ordinary seaman.
- outside diameter.
- overdraft.
- overdrawn.
o.d.
- (in prescriptions) the right eye.
- olive drab.
- on demand.
- outside diameter.
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