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offer
English
Alternative forms
- offre (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??f?(?)/, /???f?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??f?/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /??f?/
- Rhymes: -?f?(?), -??f?(?)
- Hyphenation: of?fer
Etymology 1
From Middle English offer, from Old English offrian (“offer or make a sacrifice”) rather than from Old French offre (“offer”), from offrir (“to offer”), from Latin offer? (“to present, bring before”). Compare North Frisian offer (“sacrifice, donation, fee”), Dutch offer (“offering, sacrifice”), German Opfer (“victim, sacrifice”), Danish offer (“victim, sacrifice”), Icelandic offr (“offering”). See verb below.
Noun
offer (plural offers)
- A proposal that has been made.
- Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
- (law) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.
Derived terms
- make an offer
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English offren, offrien, from Old English offrian (“to offer, sacrifice, bring an oblation”), from Latin offer? (“to present, bestow, bring before”, literally “to bring to”), from Latin ob + fer? (“bring, carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-, *b?r?- (“to carry, bear”), later reinforced by Old French offrir (“to offer”). Cognate with Old Frisian offria (“to offer”), Old Dutch offr?n (“to offer”), German opfern (“to offer”), Old Norse offra (“to offer”). More at ob-, bear.
Verb
offer (third-person singular simple present offers, present participle offering, simple past and past participle offered)
- (intransitive) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).
- (transitive) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.
- (transitive) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
- (transitive) To present (something) to God or gods as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Exodus xxix. 36
- Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Exodus xxix. 36
- (transitive, engineering) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
- (transitive) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.
- (intransitive) To happen, to present itself.
- The occasion offers, and the youth complies.
- (obsolete) To make an attempt; typically used with at.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- I will not offer at that I cannot master.
- 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain
- (transitive) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to-infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Related terms
- offering
- offertory
- oblate
- oblation
Translations
Etymology 3
off +? -er
Noun
offer (plural offers)
- (used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off
Anagrams
- offre, reffo
Danish
Noun
offer n (singular definite ofret or offeret, plural indefinite ofre)
- sacrifice
- victim
Inflection
Derived terms
- slagteoffer
- ofre
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??f?r/
- Hyphenation: of?fer
- Rhymes: -?f?r
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch offere, from Old Dutch [Term?].
Noun
offer n (plural offers, diminutive offertje n)
- sacrifice
- victim
Derived terms
- brandoffer
- offeren
- plengoffer
- reukoffer
- slachtoffer
- zoenoffer
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
offer
- first-person singular present indicative of offeren
- imperative of offeren
Latin
Verb
offer
- second-person singular present active imperative of offer?
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse offr
Noun
offer n (definite singular offeret, indefinite plural offer or ofre, definite plural ofra or ofrene)
- a sacrifice
- a victim, a casualty
Derived terms
- dødsoffer
- selvmordsoffer
References
- “offer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse offr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?r/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
offer n (definite singular offeret, indefinite plural offer, definite plural offera)
- a sacrifice
- a victim, a casualty
Derived terms
- dødsoffer
References
- “offer” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse offr.
Pronunciation
Noun
offer n
- sacrifice
- victim
Declension
Anagrams
- Roffe
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin offerenda.
Pronunciation
- (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /??f?r/
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /??far/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /?o?f?r/, /??f?r/
Noun
offer f (plural offerau or offeriau or offrau)
- equipment
Mutation
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doffer
English
Etymology
doff +? -er
Noun
doffer (plural doffers)
- (textile manufacturing) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton or fiber from the cards.
- A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames.
Derived terms
- doffer shaft
- ring doffer
Related terms
- doffing comb
References
Anagrams
- fforde, offer'd, offred
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?.f?r/
- Hyphenation: dof?fer
- Rhymes: -?f?r
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch duvers, duve (“dove, pigeon”).
Noun
doffer m (plural doffers, diminutive doffertje n, feminine duif or duivin)
- male dove, a cock pigeon
- Synonyms: duiver, mannetjesduif
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Adjective
doffer
- Comparative form of dof
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