offsetn.
/ˈɒfsɛt/, U.S. /ˈɔfˌsɛt/, /ˈɑfˌsɛt/ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [noun] > ornamentation or decoration > an ornament > foil
foil1581
set-offa1625
offset1628
setting-offa1640
beauty spot1701
1628 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1843) III. ii. 373 The Quenis Chalmer the pannallis of it abone the hingingis..to be fair wrocht with armes antikis and thair afsettis.
1675 G. R. tr. A. Le Grand Man without Passion 53 The excellency of Vertue needs no off-sets.
1721 A. Ramsay Content 371 Three waiting-maids..One mov'd beneath a load of silks and lace, Another bore the off-sets of the face.
a1864 J. F. Ferrier Lect. Greek Philos. (1866) I. xii. 338 A foil or offset or complement.
2. A short lateral shoot of a plant, esp. one from the lower stem, bulb, or corm, serving for propagation.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip
planteOE
plantingeOE
quickwoodc1383
graffa1393
sarmenta1398
slivingc1400
springc1400
clavec1420
sleavingc1440
talionc1440
quick1456
quicking1469
graft1483
quickset1484
slip1495
setlingc1503
set1513
pitchset1519
slaving?1523
truncheon1572
stallon1587
crosset1600
marquot1600
sliver1604
secta1616
offset1629
slipping1638
side-slip1651
slift1657
cutting1691
pitcher1707
mallet-shoot1745
root cutting1784
stowing1788
stool1789
pitch1808
heel1822
cutling1834
piping1851
cutback1897
stump plant1953
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole xi. 114 The root is..compassed with a number of small rootes, or of of-sets round about it.
1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety ix. 251 This root of bitterness..sent forth some offesets to preserve its kind.
1798 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 2) vi. 78 The young offsets of the present years slipped in autumn..will do for plants.
1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 21 The capability of propagation by offsets is another point of interest belonging to bulbs.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §1. 33 Houseleeks..and such-like fibrous-rooted succulent plants multiply freely by offsets.
1925 A. J. Macself Bulb Gardening xiv. 215 Almost all bulbs and corms throw what are termed offsets, which are first attached to the basal wing of the bulb, drawing nourishment from the parent bulb, but later developing an independent root system.
1993 Garden News May 103/1 Cacti can be propagated from offsets..; spider plant, saxifrage and piggyback plant (tolmiea) from plantlets.
3. figurative and in extended use.† b. A person, family, etc., descended collaterally from a specified family or race. Cf. scion n. 2b. Obsolete.† c. A minor branch of a mountain range; a spur. Cf. sense 4d. Obsolete.† d. U.S. A bevelled part on a wheel. Obsolete. rare.
a. Something that springs, arises, or derives from another; a lateral branch, an offshoot.
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the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > sucker or side-shoot
scourgea1382
by-sprouting1562
sucker1577
lateral1578
offset1642
spiney1649
side shoot1658
appendix1664
by-shoot1669
water sprout1688
turion1725
tiller1733
surculus1775
suckler1796
suckling1798
offshoot1814
stool1818
base shoot1835
side-tiller1903
toe1952
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > offshoot
scionc1384
explantation?a1425
sprig1575
offset1642
ramification1755
off-branch1793
offshoot1814
the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [noun] > ramification > a branching part
sprig1634
offshoot1851
offset1853
outbranching1855
offsetting1857
1642 J. Brinsley Healing of Israels Branches v. 55 I shall here againe commend onely a twofold direction, each being an off-set from the former directions which I propounded.
1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 281 He has omitted..many antiquities that are to be found in off-sets by the way.
1806 C. Anderson Let. in Life (1854) iv. 65 Mr. Macfarlane's Church (an offset from the Tabernacle).
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. viii. 56 The glaciers which abut upon this sound are probably offsets from an interior mer de glace.
1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. cxxxvii As an offset from symbolism, heraldry sprang up.
1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 233 I was non-resident curate of a little hamlet attached to a living plethoric in population and in proceeds. My Rector, D.D., took no interest in his offset.
1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy iv. 54 The missing cattle..after following down the fence several miles had encountered an offset, and the angle had held the squad.
1938 Sun (Baltimore) 20 June 7/6 The cars pass offsets of rooms in which the different processes of machine cutting, blasting and actual loading of cars are made an actual part of the visual lesson in coal mining.
1987 Indian Bookworm's Jrnl. Winter 2/2 (advt.) In the 15th century..a new offset of Krishna worship called Pushti Marga—the Path of Grace—was born in Vraja, North India.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] > collateral descendant
offshoot1710
offset1711
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > stock, race, or family > [noun] > branch > collateral branch
by-channel1628
offshoot1710
offset1711
lateral branch1869
1711 W. King tr. G. Naudé Polit. Considerations Refin'd Politicks iii. 88 The kingdom at last..came to Pepin an off-set of the family of Clodion.
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 42 Others assert that they are mere degenerate offsets from the Scythian and Tartar branch of the Caucasian stock.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 126 They speak the Shoshonie language, and probably are offsets from that tribe.
1898 Q. Rev. Apr. 418 That particular offset of the Caucasic stock.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > spur
limb1832
offset1833
counterfort1847
spurlet1894
1833 Penny Cycl. I. 139/2 A hill, called Mount St. Elias..with its offsets, occupies the southern part of the island [sc. Aegina].
1879 L. G. Seguin Black Forest vi. 85 Hills, which are an offset of the Black Forest range.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > other parts
vane1815
web1828
offset1850
wheel-guard1860
spade1862
pulley cone1903
1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 220 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI I also claim..a cutter wheel, having bevels or off-sets around its face.
e. Nautical. A current flowing away from the shore. rare.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun] > flowing towards shore
indraught1589
offset1902
1902 Daily Chron. 30 Aug. 5/6 There was..what maritime men call an offset at the time Holbein was swimming.
1902 Daily Chron. 2 Sept. 5/5 He had got the benefit of a good off-set current under him.
4. † b. U.S. A terrace on the side of a slope or hill. Obsolete.† c. U.S. Mining. A step-like formation or working in a mine; = stope n.2 2. Obsolete.
a. Architecture and Building. A horizontal or sloping break or ledge on the face of a wall, etc., formed where the portion above is less thick than that below.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > other parts of wall
quoin1532
ground-table1640
breast1655
patand1656
raddling1673
breast1674
offset1721
breastwork1779
base1790
breast beam1828
dry area1833
chimney-breast1842
wall-head1898
1721 J. Perry Acct. Stopping Daggenham Breach 105 The Work being carry'd up with good Earth by proper Off-sets.
1772 C. Hutton Princ. Bridges 97 Made with a broad bottom on the foundation, and gradually diminished in thickness by offsets.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 545 The measurer takes a line or tape and begins..at the plinth, then stretching the line to the top, bends it into the offset, or weathering.
1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. vii. vi. 183 Longitudinal bearers, firmly fixed to the offsets of the piers and abutments.
1977 J. S. Curl Eng. Archit. 116/2 Offsets or set-offs are generally sloped in Gothic architecture and have projecting drips, as in buttresses.
1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) iii. 176/2 The brickwork was formed so as to provide ledges—known as offsets—to support the wall plates.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > ledge or terrace > [noun]
shelvea1701
ledge1732
terrace1753
bench1791
lynchet1797
shelf1807
benching1809
offset1856
cultivation terrace1863
terracing1863
mantelshelf1897
cultivation-bank1913
mantelpiece1920
terracette1922
berm1931
1856 Porter's Spirit of Times 18 Oct. 106/3 The hearth~stone, garden, ‘offsets’,..and a thousand delicious memories..swarm before us now.
1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxvi. 555 He then walked along a flat offset five or six feet below the house.
1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds x. 157 About half way up the cliff is a small offset, where grows a beautiful pine.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > working face or place
witchet1677
face1708
front1717
stope1747
wall1750
web1767
working place1827
wall-face1839
offset1872
wicket1881
upset1883
1872 1st Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1871–2 627 It consists in taking out the ore in successive offsets or stopes.
1876 Catal. Centennial Exhib. Geol. Surv. New Jersey 53 The Mount Pleasant mine..is of interest to the geologist, because of its numerous short faults or ‘offsets’, which displace the vein, or ore-bed.
d. Geology and Geomorphology. A fault in which displacement is predominantly horizontal; the extent of this, esp. as measured in a direction perpendicular to the strike of the disrupted horizon. Hence: a geomorphological structure resulting from such displacement.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fault > other types of fault
heave1802
reversed fault1852
reverse fault1865
step-fault1879
ring fracture1881
overfault1883
overlap fault1883
overthrust1883
trough fault1883
thrust1888
thrust-fault1889
offset1897
cross-fault1900
tear-fault1900
distributive fault1904
cross-break1909
slide1910
strike-slip fault1913
rift1921
splay fault1942
wrench fault1951
megashear1954
transform fault1965
transform1971
1897 Science 5 Feb. 238/2 In seeking to measure a fault it is necessary to have clearly in mind some of the principal functions of fault movement. Among these..are adopted and defined..total displacement, lateral separation, perpendicular separation, throw, vertical separation and offset.
1907 Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 324. 5 The lower diagram represents the rectangular block after the earthquake, its two parts dislocated by sliding horizontally along the fault plane, and the line AB made discontinuous by an offset.
1940 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 48 397 The evidence just presented suggests a 30-mile offset along the San Andreas fault.
1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xvi. 236/2 The offsets were originally interpreted to indicate large-scale horizontal or strike-slip movements of the adjacent crustal blocks along the fractures.
1992 Earth May 34/2 They may be similar in appearance to cracks produced during earthquakes but, unlike these fault scarps, earth fissures have little, if any, vertical displacement or offset.
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a. Surveying. A short distance measured sideways from a known point on a main line of measurement.As, for example, the distance from the straight line joining the two ends of an irregular boundary to a point (e.g. an angle) in the boundary, measured in order to calculate the area of the irregularly bounded part.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > distances measured between points or lines
easting1652
northing1652
southing1652
westing1652
offset1725
vertical interval1885
horizontal equivalent1889
tangent distance1983
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Surveying Before you begin to measure the Line, take the Off-set to the Hedge, viz. the Distance ☉ e.
1807 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) II. 62 Observe when you are directly opposite any bends or corners of the boundary..and from these measure the perpendicular offsets..with the offset-staff, if they are not very large, otherwise with the chain itself.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 94/2 Before he proceeds to the determination of the distances or dimensions, technically called ‘offsets’.
1950 J. Clendinning Princ. Surv. iii. 21 Run the chain lines as close as possible to the detail to be surveyed, so that offsets are as short, and offset triangles as small, as possible.
1984 A. Bannister & S. Raymond Surveying (ed. 5) ii. 28 Offsets and ties are plotted systematically in the same order in which they were booked, i.e. working from beginning to end of each line.
b. In general use: linear or angular displacement; the amount or distance by which something is out of line.
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1949 G. A. Briggs Sound Reprod. xviii. 112 It is advisable to use the longest tone arm possible, and so reduce the offset angle and tracking error as much as possible.
1962 D. W. Dudley Gear Handbk. ii.12 Sufficient offset of the hypoid permits straddle mounting of the pinion and the gear.
1989 Car & Driver Sept. 70/2 This allows greater freedom in placing them within the wheels, in turn offering greater flexibility in determining wheel offset and steering geometry.
1998 Automotive Engineer June 38/2 Renault makes the point that the driving seat, steering wheel and pedals are precisely aligned, with no offset whatever.
c. Mathematics and in computer graphics: a point, curve, or surface lying a fixed distance from some other point, curve, or surface. Cf. offset curve n. at Compounds.
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the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > [noun] > graph > showing specific relationship
characteristic1881
characteristic curve1881
time curve1883
luminosity curve1886
hysteresis curve1890
hysteresis loop1892
time-distance1892
solidus1901
power curve1908
log log1910
Russell diagram1922
creep curve1931
power curve1932
Hertzsprung–Russell diagram1939
Petersen graph1947
utility curve1948
tournament graph1959
offset1987
1987 Computer Aided Design 19 305 One of the main advantages of this technique is to provide a good approximation when the offset cannot be described by a B-spline and an exact result otherwise (for circles, for example).
1995 Math. of Computation 64 1590 The fact that general polynomial curves do not have rational offsets..has prompted a profusion of more or less heuristic approximation schemes.
6.
a. Something set off against something else so as to counterbalance it, as an item on one side of an account equivalent to one on the other side; anything that counterbalances, compensates, or makes up for something else; a consideration or amount diminishing or neutralizing the effect of a contrary one.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > a counterbalance
counterpoise1594
opposition1594
counterbalance1640
offset1769
set-off1774
equipoise1780
makeweight1787
equilibrant1883
standoff1888
1769 in Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1885) XIII. 207 A petition..setting forth that the petitioner and petitionee have executions against each other now in the hands of Ezekiel Williams,..upon which the petitioner prays for an off-set of the same.
1793 N. Chipman Rep. & Diss. ii. 168 Defendant..may plead an offset of any sum or sums due to him from the plaintiff.
1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 305 As an offset to this, its luxury of flagging is very gratifying to British soles.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 219 The Spanish and English [tragedies] agree in the Teutonic peculiarity of admitting the humorous offset of the clown.
1927 Dict. National Biogr. 1912–21 410/2 British prestige, especially among Eastern peoples, was held to demand some conspicuous off-set to the successes of the Turks.
1973 Times 11 June 14/1 Instead of being 50p better off, she gained only 15p a week. The High Court ruled that this automatic offset, which was standard commission procedure, was unlawful.
1984 M. P. Devereux & C. P. Mayer Corporation Tax i. 11 (table) Double Taxation Relief now available as an offset against taxable profits before ACT (previously after).
b. Short for offset well n. at Compounds.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > oil rig > [noun] > well
well1652
spouting well1776
petroleum well1801
rock well1830
oil well1859
spouter1865
gusher1876
test well1877
wild cat1877
wildcat well1883
roarera1885
oiler1890
discovery1900
edge well1904
wild well1915
offset well1922
stripper1930
offset1933
production well1934
outstep1947
step-out well1948
1933 Econ. Geogr. 9 77/2 The owners realized that the producing wells of others would slowly drain away their petroleum unless offsets were sunk.
1974 R. D. Grace in P. L. Moore et al. Drilling Pract. Man. 349 Deviation to 10 degrees was recorded in the north offset.
1985 New Yorker 6 May 82/1 Nine offsets got drilled..and they're all producers.
c. A small fixed alteration or adjustment of some aspect of a system; spec. a small electrical bias introduced to ensure correct operation of a circuit. Also: a sustained deviation or discrepancy between the actual and predicted value of a variable; spec. a small deviation from a correct or normal voltage, current, etc.
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1955 W. G. Holzbock Instruments for Measurem. & Control 360 Offset is the steady-state difference between the control point and the value of the controlled variable corresponding to the set point.
1987 Electronics & Wireless World Jan. 98/1 Experiments showed that an offset of approximately 10Hz between adjacent frequency transmitters was optimum on this system.
1990 Compact Disc 7 Aug. 73/1 KCD-40 Gold Series CD Player... Features..servo loop used for eliminating DC offset.
d. Business. In international trade, esp. in the aerospace industry: an agreement whereby a country selling products or services to another undertakes to invest in that country's products or services to an equivalent or percentage value; (hence) trade proposed or carried out in fulfilment of such an agreement. Frequently (and in earliest use) attributive, as offset agreement, offset purchase, etc.
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society > trade and finance > importing and exporting > [noun] > balance of trade > offset
offset purchase1966
1966 Economist 20 Aug. 731/2 The Germans continue to be slow in making their military ‘offset’ purchases to counter the dollars which are drained away by the cost of keeping American troops in Germany.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 2 Mar. b2/1 Gruman Aerospace Corp. has put forward a program that would provide an 80% offset—that is, over a period of years it would transfer to Canada work equal to 80% of the contract value.
1989 A. Lorenz Fighting Chance vii. 273 An RAF report had recommended precisely this solution, with the twist that instead of an offset agreement..it suggested..that the aircraft be made in Britain under licence.
1994 Guns & Shooting June 20/2 The ‘compensation arrangements’ are so complicated.., but some of the ‘offsets’ include the Dutch supplying the Canadians with 13 million rounds of 7.62 × 50–mm in exchange for 26 million rounds of 5.56 × 45–mm.
2002 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 18 June Direct offsets guarantee a buyer nation's industry a part of the work on the plane, such as building the landing gear or assembling part of the airframe.
e. Statistics. A term in a generalized linear model which appears with a known or specified coefficient, not an estimated one.
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1980 Appl. Statistics 29 157 The ML estimate of Β is obtained from the Poisson model in GLIM [Generalized Linear Interactive Modelling] with log Λ(ti) as a known function (an offset) incorporated in the log-linear model.
1993 M. S. Crawley GLIM Ecologists xii. 191 We would like to refit the model, but with one or more of the parameters specified by us, rather than estimated by GLIM. We do this by using offsets.
1996 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. A. 29 518 The logarithm of the expected suicides, denoted E, is an offset (a predictor variable with coefficient set to 1) so that the effects of age structure are controlled.
7. The act of setting off (on a journey or course of action); outset, beginning, start. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > (a) starting operation
onset1561
start1589
outsettinga1698
offset1791
startup1892
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun]
ordeOE
thresholdeOE
frumthc950
anginOE
frumeOE
worthOE
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springc1225
springc1225
commencementc1250
ginninga1300
comsingc1325
entryc1330
aginning1340
alphac1384
incomea1400
formec1400
ingressc1420
birtha1425
principlea1449
comsementa1450
resultancec1450
inition1463
inceptiona1483
entering1526
originala1529
inchoation1530
opening1531
starting1541
principium1550
entrance1553
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rise1589
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ingate1591
overture1595
budding1601
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starting off1616
dawninga1631
dawn1633
impriminga1639
start1644
fall1647
initial1656
outset1664
outsettinga1698
going off1714
offsetting1782
offset1791
commence1794
aurora1806
incipiency1817
set-out1821
set-in1826
throw-off1828
go-off1830
outstart1844
start1857
incipience1864
oncome1865
kick-off1875
off-go1886
off1896
get-go1960
lift-off1967
1791 Monthly Rev. May 96 Affairs, the terms of which were, at the offset, unknown to me.
1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 235 He addressed a letter to me, announcing their off-set.
1845 tr. H. Latimer Let. in Serm. & Remains II. 311 When you thus get out of your way at the first off-set.
1899 Eclectic Mag. Feb. 201 At the offset I was out of it.
1935 H. S. Johnson Blue Eagle 204 Without difficulty..albeit some slight misunderstandings at the offset..we came out in a few days with a document on which we could all agree.
1996 Raygun Nov. 93/2 Elastic, snappy bass and speed queen guitar wail propel the music from the offset.
8. Chiefly Plumbing. A bend in a pipe, made to carry it past an obstruction in its course. Also: a length of pipe which diverges from a main pipe. Frequently attributive, esp. as offset pipe.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 639/2 Offset pipe.
1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Offset, a branch pipe; also, a more or less abrupt bend in a pipe, made to bring the axis of one part of the pipe out of line with the axis of another part.
1978 R. P. Singhal Home Plumber's Bible iv. 107 In case a line has an offset..the length of pipe between the fittings can be calculated with the help of Table 4-4.
1983 J. S. Foster Struct. & Fabric (rev. ed.) I. iii. 236/2 With solid-fuel installations sharp bends and offsets should be avoided.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 639/2 Offset (Carriage Hardware), the fork at the point in the back-stay where the branches separate to reach the hind axle at two points.
10. Printing.
a. The accidental transfer of ink from one page to another; an impression thus transferred; = set-off n. 5.
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society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > [noun] > transfer of wet ink to other page
set-off1842
offset1888
lithographic offset1915
society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > transfer of wet ink to other page
set-off1842
offset1888
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 90 Off-set, the set-off of ink from one sheet to another of printed work whilst wet.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 90 Sheeted, this expression is used when heavily printed work has to be placed sheet by sheet between other sheets to prevent off-set of ink.
1894 Amer. Dict. Printing & Bookmaking 407/1 If the paper is to be used immediately several plans are known for decreasing the offset.
1926 R. W. Polk Pract. of Printing xv. 116 Beginners often notice the offset on the back of the sheet, and say that the form has ‘printed through’.
1952 R. W. Polk Pract. of Printing (rev. ed.) xvi. 127 Coarse or soft papers usually can be stacked up in reasonable piles without risk of set-off... The original term for this was offset2... 2. The term set-off is a relatively new one..gradually superseding the term offset... However, some printers still use the word offset in both cases.
2001 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 26 Apr. 17 A new printing press, which called for specific sheet properties to minimize ink offset (the ink of one sheet rubbing off on the next).
b. A printing process in which ink is transferred from a plate (earlier, a stone) to a rubber-covered cylinder, and thence to paper or some other surface. Also: an impression or print produced by this process. Frequently (and in earliest use) attributive, as offset method, offset process, etc.; see also offset printing n. at Compounds.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > photomechanical or process printing > [noun] > offset
offset1906
photo-offset1922
photolitho offset1931
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > photomechanical or process printing > [adjective] > offset (of paper)
offset1926
1906 Brit. Printer Oct. 283/2 The offset process—that is, working first on the blanket and offsetting from this on to the paper fed into the machine—is the usual method.
1926 Encycl. Brit. III. 220/2 By the offset method any paper, whether smooth- or rough-surfaced, may be used... Offset seems to be particularly adapted to colour-work.
1937 Discovery Oct. 297 An offset—a print made in a non-greasy powdered chalk.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Apr. 188/3 Dr. Willoughby's book, printed by offset from typewritten script.
1976 Sci. Amer. Jan. 135/1 This work is unappealing typographically, dominated by crowded typewritten copy in grayish offset.
1990 Brit. Printer Nov. 32/2 [In screen printing] because ink is printed directly on to the substrate through a screen, a much heavier layer of ink can be deposited than by the offset process.
11. Chiefly Medicine and Physiology. Cessation or termination (of a condition, action, stimulus, etc.). Opposed to onset.
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1932 P. D. White Heart Dis. xxxii. 641 Its steady rapid rate and sudden onset and offset distinguish it from sinoauricular tachycardia.
1961 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 154 21 The rates of offset and of onset of antagonism..follow an exponential course.
1970 O. Sacks Migraine iii. 88 Migrainous syncope is never of abrupt onset and offset, like a petit mal attack; the patient sinks into it over the course of a few minutes.
1985 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 July 92/1 Terfenadine has a rapid onset and offset of action and is therefore ideally suited for intermittent symptomatic treatment.
1999 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 11638 (caption) In addition to the expected response to stimulus onset, the longer stimulus durations also show a response to stimulus offset.
Compounds
offset blanket n. Printing (a) a protective blanket or sheet which receives excess ink and thus prevents wet images passing from one newly-printed sheet to another; a set-off sheet; (b) a rubber-coated sheet attached to a cylinder on an offset printing press which transfers the ink from the plate to the paper.
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1902 N.E.D. at Offset Offset blanket, a blanket or sheet of soft paper attached to a special cylinder on a printing-press for the purpose of receiving the offset, or excess of ink, on freshly printed sheets of paper.
1963 W. C. Kenneyson & A. J. B. Spilman Dict. Printing, Papermaking & Bookbinding 136 The normal method is to stretch an offset blanket over a special cylinder.
1994 Sci. Amer. Apr. 99/1 That ‘offset’ blanket at last sets its ink image flexibly onto the paper.
offset curve n. Mathematics and in computer graphics a curve all of whose points are a fixed distance from some other given curve.
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1983 Computer Aided Design 15 297 This paper discusses a method which allows calculation of the offset curve of a cubic spline.
1997 IEEE Computer Graphics & Applic. 17 62 Offset curves have diverse engineering applications, spurring extensive research on various offset techniques.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 639/2 Offset glass, a journal oiler having a glass globe, the bulge of which is on one side in order to allow the glass to stand in a place close up to the side of an object.
offset litho n. Printing = offset lithography n.
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1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) § 526 Offset-litho operator, a photographer..who obtains a negative, not reversed in position, with or without using a screen.
1970 Brit. Printer July 69/2 Screen process is now competing with offset-litho and flexography in some large packaging applications.
1993 Newsweek 29 Mar. 64/2 Young rebels..started self-publishing what was called the ‘artist's book’—cheap offset litho editions of art jokes, such as deadpan images of gas stations.
offset lithograph n. Printing a print from a lithographic plate taken by the offset process.
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1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 June p. viii/3 The rollicking offset-lithographs of Elsa Moeschlin.
2003 Times (Nexis) 3 Jan. (Features section) 31 In a Chinese Cultural Revolution poster—a colour offset lithograph—from around 1970, a worker, soldier and peasant are depicted.
offset lithographic adj. Printing of or relating to offset lithography.
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1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes ii. 12 Letterpress printed halftones..can often be..rescreened for printing by the offset-lithographic process.
2002 Speciality Chemicals (Nexis) 1 July 15 Off-set lithographic printing is widely used for the production of books and magazines.
offset lithography n. Printing printing from a lithographic plate by the offset process.
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1958 J. R. Biggs Woodcuts 91 Offset cartridge, that is, the paper made for printing offset lithography, has a kindly surface, and a firm feel which is suitable for some subjects.
2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 28 Nov. f8/1 Letterpress was the country's predominant form of printing until the 1940's. Until recently it was headed for extinction, replaced by offset lithography.
offset paper n. paper designed for use in the offset printing process.
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1928 Penrose Ann. 111 The faulty soluble coating in so many classes of so-called offset papers, engenders printing troubles.
2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Dec. c4/1 Abitibi-Consolidated said yesterday that it would..convert its Alma, Quebec, newsprint mill to produce offset paper.
offset press n. Printing a printing press employing the offset process.
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1918 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 June 8/5 A Litho Offset Press.
1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Offset Process vii. 261 Some blankets for the small offset presses are already punched..so they can be placed on the blanket cylinder.
2001 Electronic Publishing (Nexis) 1 Aug. 26 Except for very short runs..the advantage often remains with a small offset press for no other reason than it works the same way as a bigger offset press.
offset printing n. Printing printing by the offset process.
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society > communication > printing > specific methods or processes > [noun] > others
stereotype1800
typolithography1825
fluorography1840
glyphography1843
photoprocess1875
process work1881
recess printing1887
process engraving1889
screening1894
rotogravure1913
offset printing1915
thermography1928
electrography1953
flexography1954
recess1958
impact printing1966
1915 Southward's Mod. Printing (ed. 3) II. xxxiii. 282 Offset printing is popularly supposed to have owed its introduction to a ‘miss’ made in printing on a lithographic cylinder machine.
1934 Science 20 July 59 The papers..amount approximately to a 750-page book, condensed by the offset printing process to 200 pages.
1970 A. Toffler Future Shock xii. 248 Advances in offset printing and xerography have radically lowered the costs of short-run publishing.
1999 Printing World 7 June 16/4 His declarations..that conventional offset printing would be dead by 2006.
offset purchase n. see sense 6d.
offset sheet n. Printing = offset blanket n.
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1902 N.E.D. at Offset offset-sheet = set-off sheet.
2002 Printing World (Nexis) 9 Dec. 18 The investment allows personalised, offline imaging on full-colour offset sheets up to B1 size.
offset staff n. Surveying a rod used in measuring offsets.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveying instruments > staff or pole > for taking off-sets
station staff1653
cross1669
station pole1775
offset staffc1791
station rod1791
cross-staff1874
c1791 Encycl. Brit. VII. 679/1 The distances taken by the off-set staff, on either side of the station-line, are to be entered into columns on either side of the middle column.
1807 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) II. 57 An offset-staff..for measuring the offsets and other short distances. It is 10 links in length, being divided and marked at each of the 10 links.
1949 T. W. Birch Maps iv. 33 Before the chain is moved forward each time, he takes his offset staff and measures the distance of the fence from the chain, at right angles to the latter, at significant points which will enable him to make a fairly accurate plan of the fence.
2003 www.orbitals.com 29 Jan. (O.E.D. Archive) An offset staff is 6 feet 7.2 inches. The staff is divided into ten links using alternating stripes of paint.
offset well n. an oil or gas well drilled in a particular area to counteract or augment drainage of oil or gas caused by drilling in an adjacent area.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > oil rig > [noun] > well
well1652
spouting well1776
petroleum well1801
rock well1830
oil well1859
spouter1865
gusher1876
test well1877
wild cat1877
wildcat well1883
roarera1885
oiler1890
discovery1900
edge well1904
wild well1915
offset well1922
stripper1930
offset1933
production well1934
outstep1947
step-out well1948
1922 Petroleum Gloss. (Pan Amer. Petroleum & Transport Co.) 32 Offset well, a well drilled opposite to a well on an adjoining property.
1932 World Petroleum 3 467/1 Production in the light oil zone at the discovery well in the center of the field..has since been considerably augmented by the completion of offset wells.
2001 Marine & Petroleum Geol. 18 235 Known vertical and lateral differences in the pressure regime, even in adjacent fault blocks, reduced reliance on offset wells.
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offsetv.
/ˌɒfˈsɛt/, /ˈɒfsɛt/, U.S. /ˌɔfˈsɛt/, /ˌɑfˈsɛt/ 1.
a. transitive. To set off as an equivalent against something else, or part of something else; to balance by something on the opposite side or of contrary nature. Also (of the equivalent): to counterbalance, compensate for.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > balance against or counterbalance
gaina1375
counterpoise1393
peisea1400
weigh1583
set1589
poise1600
to weigh against, again1600
affront1609
balance1624
cancel1633
counterbalance1636
counterpose1636
compensate1656
equilibriatea1657
outset1656
equiponderate1661
equipoise1664
equibalance1665
offset1673
countersway1710
to set off1749
counterweigh1825
equilibrate1829
to set against ——1832
equilibrize1833
1673 in A. Perry & C. S. Brigham Early Rec. Portsmouth (Rhode Island) (1901) 179 The towne doe thereupon offsett the Said Sums and doe allow it him.
1793 N. Chipman Rep. & Diss. ii. 171 The demands of both plaintiff and defendant must be mutual..or they will not be allowed to offset one against the other.
1860 R. W. Emerson Power in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 68 In human action, against the spasm of energy, we offset the continuity of drill.
1877 Scribner's Monthly 15 196/1 He had lost twenty-four Whig votes to offset the twenty-five Democratic votes which Lathers received.
1898 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 456/2 We traveled southward; but an ascent of a thousand feet offset, and more than offset, the change of latitude.
1930 G. B. Shaw Androcles & Lion Pref. 58 The triumphant solution of the first by our inventors and chemists has been offset by the disastrous failure of our rulers to solve the other.
1968 Lebende Sprachen 13 51/2 The customer can offset claims on the bank only against liabilities in the same currency.
1985 Austral. Business 4 Sept. 14/1 The government's modest increase in projected outlays will be more than offset by fiscal drag.
2000 Freight Mar. 8/3 Constant improvements in performance, payload and fuel consumption mean that in many cases the difference in operating costs between a five year-old truck and a new one more than offsets the difference in capital cost.
b. transitive. To throw into prominence; to act as a foil to; to enhance, esp. by providing contrast.
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1898 Cosmopolitan Oct. 633/2 The scene down the table—with so much black cloth offset garishly against the white linen in the daylight—presented an effect of funereal sobriety.
1958 P. Grainger Let. 21 Oct. in All-round Man (1994) 279 The orchestra brilliantly offsetting the voices, & the musical form unfolding itself with inspired urgency.
1988 J. Ellroy Big Nowhere xviii. 183 The new hairstyle offset his clothes rakishly.
2001 Loaded Fashion Spring–Summer 40 Sophia Kokosalaki, who combines street-inspired silhouette with signature butter-soft leather offset with jersey.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > diverge [verb (intransitive)] > ramify or branch > branch off or out
issuec1515
branchc1540
disbranch1622
to go off1728
to take off1831
outbranch1835
offset1853
rib1856
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xli. 371 Ridges, offsetting from the higher range, project in spurs laterally.
1877 R. F. Burton in Athenæum 3 Nov. 568/3 To the north-west offsets the Ngombe..stream.
3. transitive (in passive). Geology and Geomorphology. Of a geological formation at a fault: to be displaced, esp. horizontally.
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1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 819 If the dike were moved on this fault-plane, its north and south margins would be offset, and both by the same amount.
1949 C. M. Nevin Princ. Struct. Geol. (ed. 4) iv. 86 Frequently the faulted outcrops appear to be offset, and this term is sometimes used instead of normal horizontal separation.
1985 E. H. Colbert Wandering Lands & Animals (new ed.) v. 146 (caption) The North Atlantic Ocean basin, showing the Mid-Atlantic ridge..offset from the more southerly part of the ridge by a long transverse fault—the Gibbs Fracture Zone.
1996 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 104 297 Eocene strata in the San Juan Bautista area were suggested..to have been offset a similar amount of 315 km from the San Emigdio Formation.
4. intransitive. Printing = to set off at set v.1 Phrasal verbs 2. Also occasionally transitive.
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society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > [verb (intransitive)] > set off
to set off1683
offset1888
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 122 When the ink off-sets from one sheet to another.
1894 Amer. Dict. Printing & Bookmaking 407/1 It must remain in a wet condition on the paper for some time before losing its moisture, and if touched in the meantime by the fingers or another sheet of paper some of it will smear or offset.
1926 R. W. Polk Pract. of Printing xv. 116 Sheets are said to be offset when ink from one is transferred to another. If freshly printed sheets are stacked too high, they will offset on one another.
1995 Ink & Print (Nexis) 22 Sept. 4 As the printed sheets are transported to the delivery, spray powder is applied via three nozzles to prevent ink offsetting onto other sheets.
5. transitive. To set or place at an angle, out of line, or off centre; to displace.
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1904 Westm. Gaz. 6 July 10/2 A miniature target offset from the trajectory of the firearm.
1962 BBC Handbk. 119 A worthwhile further decrease in the mutual interference between a number of transmitters unavoidably operating on the same channel can be obtained. This is achieved by ‘off-setting’ the frequencies of two (or more) transmitters.
1981 M. A. Parker & F. Pickup Engin. Drawing (ed. 3) v. 148 The line of action of the follower is offset 43 mm to the left of the vertical centre line of the cam.
1993 Canad. Wood Products June 12/1 The scanner generally consists of a photo eye pair every foot for each axis, offset by six inches.
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