All English words - page 2431

Meanings of Offlap:

noun

A progressive diminution in the lateral extent of sedimentary deposits in passing upwards from older to younger strata, so that each stratum leaves a portion of the underlying one exposed; a set of strata exhibiting this, typically as a result of regression of a shoreline. contrasted with onlap.

Meanings of Offlet:

noun

A channel or pipe for letting water off; a drainage outlet.

Meanings of Offloading:

verb

Unload (a cargo).

Usage examples:

A delivery could be offloaded immediately on arrival

Meanings of Offloads:

verb

Unload (a cargo).

Usage examples:

A delivery could be offloaded immediately on arrival

Meanings of Offprint:

noun

A printed copy of an article that originally appeared as part of a larger publication.

Usage examples:

They signed up for two copies of the book and ordered an additional two hundred offprints of the li…

Meanings of Offprints:

noun

A printed copy of an article that originally appeared as part of a larger publication.

Usage examples:

They signed up for two copies of the book and ordered an additional two hundred offprints of the li…

Meanings of Offs:

verb

Leave.

Usage examples:

Supposedly loyal workers suddenly upped and offed to the new firms

adverb

Away from the place in question; to or at a distance.

Usage examples:

The man ran off

preposition

Moving away and often down from.

Usage examples:

He rolled off the bed

adjective

Characterized by performing or feeling worse than usual; unsatisfactory or inadequate.

Usage examples:

Even the greatest athletes have off days

noun

The half of the field (as divided lengthways through the pitch) towards which the batsman's feet are pointed when standing to receive the ball.

Usage examples:

Headland bats with real style and is deadly square of the wicket on the off side.

Meanings of Offscouring:

noun

Usually in plural. that which is scoured off (literally or figuratively). in biblical use, and allusions to this: a group of people despised and cast aside like rubbish; scum, riff-raff. occasionally in singular: a worthless or contemptible person.

Meanings of Offscourings:

plural noun

Rubbish or dregs.

Meanings of Offscreen:

adjective

Not appearing on a cinema, television, or computer screen.

Usage examples:

He drawls to an off-screen interrogator

adverb

Outside what can be seen on a television or cinema screen.

Usage examples:

The girl is looking off-screen to the right

Meanings of Offsets:

noun

A consideration or amount that diminishes or balances the effect of an opposite one.

Usage examples:

Widow's bereavement allowance is an offset against income

verb

Counteract (something) by having an equal and opposite force or effect.

Usage examples:

Donations to charities can be offset against tax

Meanings of Offshoot:

noun

A side shoot or branch on a plant.

Usage examples:

Pistia stratiotes l. is a free-floating aquatic angiosperm that can reproduce rapidly by vegetative…

Meanings of Offshore:

adjective

Situated at sea some distance from the shore.

Usage examples:

This huge stretch of coastline is dominated by offshore barrier islands

adverb

At sea some distance from the shore.

Usage examples:

We dropped anchor offshore

verb

Relocate (a business or department) to a foreign country to take advantage of lower taxes or costs.

Usage examples:

He predicts that 750,000 uk jobs will be offshored in the next 10 years

Meanings of Offside:

adverb

(especially in soccer, rugby, or hockey) in a position where playing the ball or puck is not allowed, especially (in soccer) in the attacking half ahead of the ball and having fewer than two defenders nearer the goal line at the moment the ball is played.

Usage examples:

The attacker looked offside by several yards

adjective

(especially in soccer, rugby, or hockey) occupying or taking place in a position where playing the ball or puck is not allowed, especially (in soccer) in the attacking half ahead of the ball and having fewer than two defenders nearer the goal line at the moment the ball is played.

Usage examples:

He was beaten by an offside goal

noun

The fact of being offside in soccer and other sports.

Usage examples:

The goal was disallowed for offside

Meanings of Offspring:

noun

A person's child or children.

Usage examples:

The offspring of middle-class parents

Meanings of Offstage:

adverb

(in a theatre) away from the stage and so not visible to the audience.

Usage examples:

Screams were heard offstage

adjective

(in a theatre) not taking place on the stage and so not visible to the audience.

Usage examples:

She walked away as the clear winner of both onstage and offstage dancing

Meanings of Offuscate:

verb

To bewilder, confuse (a person); to dim.

Meanings of Offuscation:

noun

Obscuration, confusion; = "obfuscation".

Meanings of Offward:

adjective

Relating to or designating the ‘off’ side of an animal or vehicle; = "off". now rare (in later use regional).

adverb

In a direction or position off or away from something; (nautical) away from the shore. also as noun in "to the offward" (nautical): towards the open sea.

Meanings of Oficina:

noun

A factory, especially one producing nitrates, in spanish-speaking south america or mexico.

Meanings of Oftenness:

noun

The fact or condition of occurring often; frequency.

Meanings of Oftens:

adverb

Often.

Meanings of Oftentime:

adverb

Oftentimes.

adjective

Frequent.

Meanings of Oftentimes:

adverb

Frequently; many times.

Usage examples:

I would oftentimes go there

Meanings of Ogam:

noun

An ancient british and irish alphabet, consisting of twenty characters formed by parallel strokes on either side of or across a continuous line.

Usage examples:

The combination of a rockcut ‘basin’, two separate carved footprints, the incised outline of a boar…