Dictionary Entry
offset
offset is a 6-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 23 senses
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- 1noun
In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something
- 2noun
A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
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.
- 9past tense & past participle
of Offset
- 10transitive verb
To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another.
- 11transitive verb
To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.
- 12intransitive verb
To make an offset.
- 13noun
structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
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- 14noun
a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
- 15noun
a natural consequence of development
- 16noun
a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- 17noun
a compensating equivalent
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- 18noun
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"
- 19verb
produce by offset printing
"offset the conference proceedings"
- 20verb
create an offset in
"offset a wall"
- 21verb
cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface
- 22verb
make up for
"His skills offset his opponent's superior strength"
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- 23verb
compensate for or counterbalance
"offset deposits and withdrawals"
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