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Offset vs Redeem - What's the difference?

offset | redeem |

As verbs the difference between offset and redeem

is that offset is to compensate for something while redeem is to recover ownership of something by buying it back.

As a noun offset

is anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.

offset

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
  • Today's victory was an offset to yesterday's defeat.
  • (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.
  • A time at which something begins; outset.
  • A printing method, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • 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 .
  • (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
  • 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.
  • (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
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  • A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
  • (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.
  • Verb

  • To compensate for something.
  • I'll offset the time difference locally.
    to offset one charge against another
  • To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
  • See also

    * onset

    Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs ----

    redeem

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
  • To liberate by payment of a ransom.
  • To set free by force.
  • To save, rescue
  • To clear, release from debt or blame
  • To expiate, atone (for ...)
  • (finance) To convert (some bond or security) into cash
  • To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).
  • To repair, restore
  • To reform, change (for the better)
  • To restore the reputation or honour of oneself or something.
  • (archaic) To reclaim
  • Synonyms

    * (recover ownership) buy back, repurchase

    Antonyms

    * abandon

    Derived terms

    * redeem oneself * redeemable * redeemably * redeemer * unredeemable * unredeemably * unredeemed