Crossword-Solution: OFFSET
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Offset | n. | In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something |
| Offset | n. | A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek. |
| Offset | n. | 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. |
| Offset | n. | A spur from a range of hills or mountains. |
| Offset | n. | 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. |
| Offset | n. | A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object. |
| Offset | n. | 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. |
| Offset | n. | 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. |
| Offset | imp. & p. p. | of Offset |
| Offset | v. t. | To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another. |
| Offset | v. t. | To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc. |
| Offset | v. i. | To make an offset. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| OFFSET | anagram | SETOFF |
We have 53 clues for the answer “OFFSET”
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "OFFSET"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RATEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
12 +1
New Suggestion for "OFFSET"
Related word tools
Sentences with OFFSET (5)
The rapid development of oil, coal, and other nontraditional industries over the past four years has helped to offset the decline in coffee prices--Colombia's major export.
The rapid development of oil, coal, and other nontraditional industries over the past four years has helped to offset the decline in coffee prices - Colombia's major export.
His bow and arrows lay some distance away where he had dropped them while showing Sabor’s hide to his fellow apes, so that he confronted Kerchak now with only his hunting knife and his superior intellect to offset the ferocious strength of his enemy.
The rapid development of oil, coal, and other nontraditional industries in recent years has helped to offset the decline in coffee prices - Colombia's major export.
Then they would recommence upon the instant, Trina protesting with a nervous tremulousness: “Now--now--now, Mac, DON'T; you SCARE me so.” But these delicious tete-a-tetes with Trina were offset by a certain coolness that Marcus Schouler began to affect towards the dentist.
Quotes with OFFSET (3)
But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it brings is a means and not an end. The end is what it does to the lives, life-chances and hopes of people. Look at London. Of course it matters to all of us that London's economy flourishes. But the test of the enormous wealth generated in patches of the capital is not that it co…
I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I was Christian — I’d been an atheist since I was five. But my father, a Congregational minister, had some sympathy with the idea that the Jews had killed Christ. But any indoctrination was offset by my discovery of the concentration camps, of the Final Solution. Whilst the term 'Holocaust' had yet to enter the vocabulary I was overwhelmed by my realisation of wha…
He tore his gaze from the door to eye the medallion at his chest, black and dull, sharply offset by the gold around it and along the chain. She was losing this war, he thought, feeling the dullness of Eleanor Black’s dread swarming against his dead heart where the medallion fell. She was losing it and it did not matter who won: We would cease to be no matter the outcome.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 61 times in crossword archives (1974–2024).