Offset



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解释

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• 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.

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Date: circa 1555
• 1.
  • a. archaic outset, start
  • b. cessation
• 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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