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verb

Offset v. t. (past & past part. offset; pres. part. offsetting)

1.

To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another.

2.

To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.

Offset v. i. (past & past part. offset; pres. part. offsetting) (Printing) To make an offset.

noun

Offset n. In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something; as:

1.

(Bot.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.

2.

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.

3.

A spur from a range of hills or mountains.

4.

(Arch.) 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.

5.

(Surv.) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.

6.

(Mech.) 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.

7.

(Print.) 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.

8.

See offset printing.

Offset staff (Surv.), a rod, usually ten links long, used in measuring offsets.

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Etymology of 'Offset'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... operations in the York were partly offset by successes in the southern counties. Late in December a loyal force, consisting in part of English sailors, landed on the right bank of the James and defeated a party of the rebels, killing their leader and taking thirteen prisoners. Four days later, they captured one of the ...

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... possible in the high-school course—at the very beginning if it can be managed. The girl must know what further training she is making ready for, must choose electives in high school to help her make ready, or possibly to offset the specializing of this later work by some general culture she may otherwise miss entirely. Vocation study, therefore, and vocational guidance must be quite as much a part of the course for the girl who will "train" for her special work as for the girl who goes directly from the secondary ...

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... done we were at this disadvantage; that since the enemy was close at hand we dared not cross the path to give our trap a jaw on either side. To offset this, the Catawba dropped out of line and disappeared; and when the Cherokees were no more than a hundred yards away, Uncanoola came in sight a like distance in the opposite direction, running easily down the path ...

— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde

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— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb

... whether as deities or as servitors of the gods. In the Niebelungenlied, the Germans bodied forth their splendid conceptions of female beauty, strength and passion in such figures as Brunhilda. These ideas must have done much to offset the physical weakness and functional handicaps of women in ...

— Woman in Modern Society • Earl Barnes

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