different between offset vs payback

English

Etymology

From off- +? set, used to construct the noun form of the verb to set off.

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /??f.s?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /??f.s?t/
• Verb:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?s?t/, /??f.s?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?f?s?t/, /??f.s?t/

Noun

offset (plural offsets)

1. Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.

2. (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. (obsolete, c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
4. (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.

5. (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.

6. (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.

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

8. (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. 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.
10. (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
11. A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
12. (architecture) 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.
13. (architecture) A terrace on a hillside.

Translations

Verb

offset (third-person singular simple present offsets, present participle offsetting, simple past and past participle offset or offsetted)

1. (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
2. (transitive) To place out of line.
3. (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).

Translations

See also

• onset

Anagrams

• set off, set-off, setoff

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ofsete

Noun

offset m (plural offsets)

1. (programming) offset (byte difference between memory addresses)
2. (printing) offset (a printing method)

English

Etymology

pay +? back, from the verb phrase.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?bæk/

Noun

payback (usually uncountable, plural paybacks)

1. (uncountable) An act of revenge.

   They beat us last year, so this year's win was payback.

2. (countable) A benefit, reward, a form of recompense.
3. A return on investment
4. (rare) A refund, reimbursement

Synonyms

• just deserts
• poetic justice

Translations

See also

• have it coming
• pay back

Anagrams

• back pay, backpay