Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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offset

UK /ˈɒf.sɛt/ · US /ˈɔf.sɛt/ noun, verb, adverb, adjective

Forms offsets offsetting offsetted off-set

  1. noun Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent. “Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat.”
  2. noun (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
  3. noun (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
  4. noun (printing, often attributive) The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface. “offset lithographs”
  5. noun (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address. “An array of bytes uses its index as the offset, of words a multiple thereof.”
  6. noun (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level. “The raw signal data was subjected to a baseline correction process to subtract the sensor's offset and drift variations.”
  7. noun The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another. “There is a small offset between the switch and the indicator which some users found confusing.”
  8. noun (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
  9. verb (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction. “I'll offset the time difference locally.”
  10. verb (transitive) To place out of line.
  11. verb (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
  12. adverb Away from or off from the set of a movie, film, video, or play.

Synonyms

countervail compensate for counterbalance equivalence offlay offstand set off beginning commencement first outset get-go start kickoff starting time showtime stolon runner outgrowth branch offshoot offset printing set-back setoff cancel

Antonyms

surmount overcome overpoise overpower

Etymology

From off- + set, used to construct the noun form of the verb to set off. Compare Middle English ofsetten (“to encumber, harass, beset, besiege”), from Old English ofsettan (“to press, oppress, overwhelm, crush”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something; as: --
  2. noun A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.
  3. verb To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another.
  4. verb To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.

Etymology [Off + set. Cf. Set-off.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “offset”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details