Offset vs. Payment — What's the Difference?

A consideration or amount that diminishes or balances the effect of an opposite one

A payment is the voluntary tender of money or its equivalent or of things of value by one party (such as a person or company) to another in exchange for goods, or services provided by them, or to fulfill a legal obligation. The party making a payment is commonly called the payer, while the payee is the party receiving the payment.

The amount or distance by which something is out of line

The act of paying or the state of being paid.

A side shoot from a plant serving for propagation

An amount paid

A sloping ledge in a wall or other feature where the thickness of the part above is diminished.

One's due, reward, or punishment; requital.

A bend in a pipe to carry it past an obstacle

(uncountable) The act of paying.

A method of printing in which ink is transferred from a plate or stone to a uniform rubber surface and from that to the paper

(countable) An instance of that act; a sum of money paid in exchange#Noun for goods or services, or the transaction#Noun that conveys it.

Counteract (something) by having an equal and opposite force or effect

The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.

Place out of line

That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return.

(of ink or a freshly printed page) transfer an impression to the next leaf or sheet

Punishment; chastisement.

An agent, element, or thing that balances, counteracts, or compensates for something else.

A sum of money paid

One thing set off or developed from something else.

The act of paying money

The start or initial stage; the outset.

(Architecture) A ledge or recess in a wall formed by a reduction in thickness above; a setoff.

(Botany) A shoot that develops laterally at the base of a plant, often rooting to form a new plant.

(Geology) A spur of a mountain range or hills.

A bend in a pipe, bar, or other straight continuous piece made to allow it to pass around an obstruction.

A short distance measured perpendicularly from the main line in surveying, used to help in calculating the area of an irregular plot.

A descendant of a race or family; an offshoot.

An unintentional or faulty transfer of wet ink from a printed sheet to another surface in contact with it. Also called setoff.

Offset printing.

To counterbalance, counteract, or compensate for

To cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface.

To produce by offset printing.

To make or form an offset in (a wall, bar, or pipe).

To develop, project, or be situated as an offset.

(Printing) To become marked by or cause an unintentional transfer of ink.

Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.

(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.

The offset printing process, 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.

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

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

(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.

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.

(architecture) A terrace on a hillside.

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.

(transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.

(transitive) To place out of line.

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

In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something

A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.

A sum, account, or value set off against another sum or account, as an equivalent; hence, anything which is given in exchange or retaliation; a set-off.

A spur from a range of hills or mountains.

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; - called also set-off.

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, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.

A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor; an unitended transfer of an image from one page to another; called also setoff.

See offset printing.

To set off; to place over against; to balance; as, to offset one account or charge against another.

To form an offset in, as in a wall, rod, pipe, etc.

To make an offset.

The time at which something is supposed to begin;

A compensating equivalent

A horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

A natural consequence of development

A plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper

Structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly

Compensate for or counterbalance;

Make up for;

Cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface

Create an offset in;

Produce by offset printing;