negative vs offset

negative

verb
  • To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate. 

  • To contradict. 

  • To disprove. 

  • To refuse; to veto. 

adj
  • Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted. 

  • Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis. 

  • Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit. 

  • Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable. 

  • Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed. 

  • Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles 

  • Denying a proposition. 

  • Not positive nor neutral. 

  • HIV negative. 

  • COVID-19 negative. 

  • Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. 

  • Of a number: less than zero 

  • Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic. 

noun
  • Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto 

  • A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement. 

  • The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell. 

  • A right of veto. 

  • An unfavorable point or characteristic. 

  • A word that indicates negation. 

  • A negative quantity. 

  • An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse. 

intj
  • No; nay. 

offset

verb
  • To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction. 

  • To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.). 

  • To place out of line. 

noun
  • A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. 

  • 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; a set-off. 

  • A spur from a range of hills or mountains. 

  • away from or off from the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film‘s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed or from those places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed. 

  • A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object. 

  • A terrace on a hillside. 

  • The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level. 

  • 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. 

  • The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface. 

  • Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent. 

  • The difference between a target memory address and a base address. 

  • The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another. 

  • An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside. 

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