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Offside vs Offset - What's the difference?

offside | offset |

As nouns the difference between offside and offset

is that offside is (sports) an offside play while offset is anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.

As an adjective offside

is (sports) in an illegal position ahead of the ball.

As a verb offset is

to compensate for something.

offside

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (sports) In an illegal position ahead of the ball
  • (US) To the side of the road, past the curb and sidewalk, e.g. an offside diner (restaurant.)
  • (bridge) Unfavourably located, from the point of view of the player taking a finesse.

    • Usage notes

    * Precise usage varies between sports; offside'' is used more in association football, while the form ''offsides is (perhaps erroneously) used by some in American football.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sports) An offside play
  • (British) the right side of a road vehicle when facing in the same direction as the vehicle

    • Antonyms

    * (roadside) nearside

    See also

    * off side * offside trap

    Anagrams

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    offset

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
    • Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat.
  • (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
  • A time at which something begins; outset.
  • A printing method, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
  • (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
    • An array of bytes uses its index as the offset , of words a multiple thereof.
  • (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
    • The raw signal data was subjected to a baseline correction process to subtract the sensor's offset and drift variations.
  • The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
    • There is a small offset between the switch and the indicator which some users found confusing .
  • (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
  • An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
  • (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
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  • A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
  • (architecture) 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; a set-off.

    • Verb

  • To compensate for something.
    • I'll offset the time difference locally.
    to offset one charge against another
  • To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).

    • See also

    * onset

    Anagrams

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