offset vs second-stringer

offset

noun
  • Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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

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

  • To place out of line. 

second-stringer

noun
  • A person who is not good enough to be considered proficient but may be useful as a backup. 

  • A person who plays second string. A person who is kept on a sports team as a backup in case a "first-string" player is unavailable. 

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