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

Definitions

1. noun. In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something
2. noun. A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
7. noun. 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.
8. noun. 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.
9. past tense & past participle. of Offset
10. transitive verb. To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another.
11. transitive verb. To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.
12. intransitive verb. To make an offset.
13. noun. structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly

    Synonyms: setoff

14. noun. a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
15. noun. a natural consequence of development

    Synonyms: branch, offshoot, outgrowth

16. noun. a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

    Synonyms: runner, stolon

17. noun. a compensating equivalent

    Synonyms: counterbalance

18. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, kickoff, outset, showtime, start

19. verb. produce by offset printing

    "offset the conference proceedings"

20. verb. create an offset in

    "offset a wall"

21. verb. cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface
22. verb. make up for

    "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength"

    Synonyms: cancel

23. verb. compensate for or counterbalance

    "offset deposits and withdrawals"

    Synonyms: countervail

Synonyms

setoff, branch, offshoot, outgrowth, runner, stolon, counterbalance, beginning, commencement, first, kickoff, outset, showtime, start, cancel, countervail

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in offset:

setoff

Common word forms

offsets, offsetting

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