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[编辑] GRE 红宝书

  • v. 补偿, 抵消
  • [英] v. 补偿, 抵消 ( make up for)
  • [例] He put up his prices to offset the increased cost of materials.

[编辑] Webster Collegiate

I. noun

  • Date: circa 1555
  • 1.
  • 2.
    • a.
      • (1) a short prostrate lateral shoot arising from the base of a plant
      • (2) a small bulb arising from the base of another bulb
    • b. a lateral or collateral branch (as of a family or race) ; offshoot
    • c. a spur from a range of hills
  • 3.
    • a. a horizontal ledge on the face of a wall formed by a diminution of its thickness above
    • b. displacement
    • c. an abrupt change in the dimension or profile of an object or the part set off by such change
  • 4. something that sets off to advantage or embellishes something else ; foil
  • 5. an abrupt bend in an object by which one part is turned aside out of line
  • 6. something that serves to counterbalance or to compensate for something else; especially either of two balancing ledger items
  • 7.
    • a. unintentional transfer of ink (as from a freshly printed sheet)
    • b. a printing process in which an inked impression from a plate is first made on a rubber-blanketed cylinder and then transferred to the paper being printed
  • ? offset adjective or adverb

II. verb (-set; -setting)

  • Date: 1792
  • transitive verb
    • 1.
      • a. to place over against something ; balance <credits offset debits>
      • b. to serve as a counterbalance for ; compensate <his speed offset his opponent's greater weight>
    • 2. to form an offset in <offset a wall>
  • intransitive verb
    • to become marked by offset


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