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| offsetting balance
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offset
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun offset has 6 senses
- offset(n = noun.time) beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, outset, showtime, start, starting time - the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her" has particulars: birth, incipience, incipiency, starting point, terminus a quo, threshold
- offset(n = noun.possession) counterbalance - a compensating equivalent; Array is a kind of compensation
- offset(n = noun.plant) runner, stolon - a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips; Array is a kind of plant organ
- offset(n = noun.phenomenon) branch, offshoot, outgrowth - a natural consequence of development; Array is a kind of consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot
- offset(n = noun.communication) offset printing - a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper; Array is a kind of printing, printing process
- offset(n = noun.artifact) set-back, setoff - structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly; Array is a kind of construction, structure
is a kind of point, point in time
Derived forms verb offset2, verb offset1
has particulars: photo-offset, photo-offset printing, letterset printing
Derived forms verb offset5, verb offset3
Derived form verb offset4
Verb offset has 5 senses
- offset(v = verb.stative) countervail - compensate for or counterbalance; "offset deposits and withdrawals" is one way to balance, equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize
- offset(v = verb.stative) cancel, set off - make up for; "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength" is one way to balance, equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize
- offset(v = verb.possession) Array - cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface; Array is one way to transfer
- offset(v = verb.creation) Array - create an offset in; "offset a wall" is one way to create, make
- offset(v = verb.creation) Array - produce by offset printing; "offset the conference proceedings" is one way to impress, print
Derived form noun offset2
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
Derived form noun offset2
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
Derived form noun offset5
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun offset6
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun offset5
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
offset, n. [Off + set. Cf. Set-off.].
- In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something [1913 Webster]
- A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek. [1913 Webster]
- A sum, account, or value set off against another sum or account, as an equivalent; hence, anything which is given in exchange or retaliation; a set-off. [1913 Webster]
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains. [1913 Webster]
- A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; -- called also
set-off . [1913 Webster] - A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object. [1913 Webster]
- An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside. [1913 Webster]
- A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor; an unitended transfer of an image from one page to another; called also
setoff . [1913 Webster] - See offset printing. [PJC]
offset, v. t.
- To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another. [1913 Webster]
- To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc. [1913 Webster]
offset, v. i.
To make an offset. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
offset, n. & v.
--n.
1 a side-shoot from a plant serving for propagation.
2 an offshoot or scion.
3 a compensation; a consideration or amount diminishing or neutralizing the effect of a contrary one.
4 Archit. a sloping ledge in a wall etc. where the thickness of the part above is diminished.
5 a mountain-spur.
6 a bend in a pipe etc. to carry it past an obstacle.
7 (often attrib.) a method of printing in which ink is transferred from a plate or stone to a uniform rubber surface and from there to paper etc. (offset litho).
8 Surveying a short distance measured perpendicularly from the main line of measurement.
--v.tr. (-setting; past and past part. -set)
1 counterbalance, compensate.
2 place out of line.
3 print by the offset process.
--n.
1 a side-shoot from a plant serving for propagation.
2 an offshoot or scion.
3 a compensation; a consideration or amount diminishing or neutralizing the effect of a contrary one.
4 Archit. a sloping ledge in a wall etc. where the thickness of the part above is diminished.
5 a mountain-spur.
6 a bend in a pipe etc. to carry it past an obstacle.
7 (often attrib.) a method of printing in which ink is transferred from a plate or stone to a uniform rubber surface and from there to paper etc. (offset litho).
8 Surveying a short distance measured perpendicularly from the main line of measurement.
--v.tr. (-setting; past and past part. -set)
1 counterbalance, compensate.
2 place out of line.
3 print by the offset process.
THESAURUS
offset
absorb the shock, albertype, analog process, annul, antacid, antidote, antipode, antipodes, antipole, antithesis, antonym, atone for, balance, ballast, be at cross-purposes, be opposed to, behavior pattern, book printing, branch, break the fall, bring to nothing, buffer, cancel, cancel out, check, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, clash, collotype, color printing, come to nothing, compensate, compensation, conflict, conflict with, consideration, contra, contradict, contrapose, contrast with, contravene, controvert, converse, counter, counteract, counteractant, counteraction, counteractive, counteragent, counterbalance, countercheck, counterirritant, counterpoint, counterpoise, counterpole, counterpose, counterterm, countervail, counterweigh, counterweight, counterwork, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, digital process, electronography, electrostatic printing, equalize, equalizer, equipoise, equiponderate, equivalent, even out, even up, feeling, filiation, foil, frustrate, give-and-take, graphic arts, gravure, halftone engraving, history of printing, hunting, impress, impression, imprint, indemnify, input oscillation, invalidate, inverse, job printing, juxtapose in opposition, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, mackle, make amends, make good, make restitution, make up, make up for, makeweight, mimeograph, negate, negativate, negative, neutralize, neutralizer, nullifier, nullify, obverse, offcut, offprint, offset lithography, offshoot, onset, oppose, opposite, opposite number, oppugn, oscillatory behavior, outweigh, overcorrection of error, overshoot, palaeotypography, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, planographic printing, planography, play at cross-purposes, preventative, preventive, print, printing, printmaking, process, prophylactic, publication, publishing, quid pro quo, recompense, redeem, redress, reimburse, reissue, relief printing, remedy, repay, reprint, reverse, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, run counter to, self-excitation, set off, setoff, sheetwork, shoot, show consideration, show mercy, show pity, soften, soften the blow, something of value, sprout, square, square up, stamp, stencil, stop, stultify, suppress, the contrary, the other side, three-color printing, thwart, tit for tat, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, undo, vis-a-vis, vitiate, void, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincographyROGET THESAURUS
offset
Printing
VB print, compose, put to press, go to press, pass through the press, see through the press, publish, bring out, appear in print, rush into print, distribute, makeup, mortise, offset, overrun, rout.Compensation
N compensation, equation, commutation, indemnification, compromise, neutralization, nullification, counteraction, reaction, measure for measure, retaliation, equalization, robbing Peter to pay Paul, set-off, offset, make-weight, casting-weight, counterpoise, ballast, indemnity, equivalent, quid pro quo, bribe, hush money, amends, counterbalance, counterclaim, cross-debt, cross- demand, compensating, compensatory, countervailing, in the opposite scale, equivalent, in return, in consideration, but, however, yet, still, notwithstanding, nevertheless, nathless, none the less, although, though, albeit, howbeit, mauger, at all events, at any rate, be that as it may, for all that, even so, on the other, hand, at the same time, quoad minus, quand meme, however that may be, after all is said and done, taking one thing with another, light is mingled with the gloom, every dark cloud has a silver lining, primo avulso non deficit alter, saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas.
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