offside

offside

See also: off side

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɒfˈsaɪd/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

Adjective

offside (comparative more offside, superlative most offside)

1. (sports) In an illegal position ahead of the ball, puck, etc.
2. (US) To the side of the road, past the curb and sidewalk.

   an offside diner

3. (bridge) Unfavourably located, from the point of view of the player taking a finesse.
4. To the side of a boat, opposite the primary side on which one paddles.

Usage notes

• Precise usage varies between sports; offside is used more in association football, while offsides is (perhaps erroneously) used by some in American football.

Translations

in an illegal position ahead of the ball

Bulgarian: в засада f (v zasada) Catalan: fora de joc (ca) Czech: ofsajdový m Finnish: paitsiossa (fi) French: hors-jeu (fr) German: im Abseits, abseits (de) Hungarian: les (hu) Icelandic: rangstæður Italian: fuorigioco (it) m Macedonian: офсајд m (ofsajd), недозволена позиција f (nedozvolena pozicija) Malay: ofsaid Maori: tū hapa Polish: na spalonym Portuguese: impedido (pt) Russian: офсайд (ru) m (ofsajd), положе́ние вне игры n (položénije vne igry) Spanish: fuera de juego (es) Turkish: ofsayt (tr)

to the side of a road

Bulgarian: крайпътен (krajpǎten) Finnish: tienvarsi-, tienvieri- German: am Straßenrand, Straßenrand- Portuguese: junto à estrada

Noun

offside (plural offsides)

1. (sports) An offside play.
2. (Britain, Australia) The side of a road vehicle furthest from the kerb: the right side if one drives on the left of the road.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 50:

     They put a stock of candle-ends into the lantern, hung the latter to the off-side of the load, and directed the horse onward, walking at his shoulder at first during the uphill parts of the way, in order not to overload an animal of so little vigour.

   My offside wing mirror got snapped off.

3. The right-hand side of a working animal such as a horse or bullock, especially when in harness.
4. (Britain, of a canal) The side opposite the towpath.

Antonyms

• (road vehicle): nearside

Descendants

• → Czech: ofsajd
• → Macedonian: офсајд (ofsajd)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ȍfsājd, о̏фса̄јд

Translations

offside play

Arabic: تَسَلُّل‎ m (tasallul) Bulgarian: засада (bg) f (zasada) Catalan: fora de joc (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 越位 (zh) (yuèwèi) Czech: ofsajd m, postavení mimo hru n Danish: offside c Dutch: buitenspel (nl) Finnish: paitsio (fi) French: hors-jeu (fr) m German: Abseits (de) n Icelandic: rangstaða f Italian: fuorigioco (it) Luxembourgish: Abseits m Malay: ofsaid Polish: spalony (pl) m Portuguese: impedimento (pt) m, fora-de-jogo (pt) m Russian: положе́ние вне игры (položénije vne igry) Serbo-Croatian: ȍfsājd (sh) m Spanish: fuera de juego (es) m Swedish: offside (sv) c Turkish: ofsayt (tr)

See also

• off side
• off-side rule
• offside trap

Anagrams

• die-offs, dieoffs, dies off

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English offside.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ofˈsaid/ [ofˈsai̯ð̞]
• Rhymes: -aid

Noun

offside m (plural offsides)

1. an offside position

   Synonyms: fuera de juego, orsay

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English offside.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔfˈsajd/

Noun

offside c

1. (sports) offside

Declension

Declension of offside
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	offside	offsiden	offsider	offsiderna
Genitive	offsides	offsidens	offsiders	offsidernas

Adverb

offside

1. (sports) offside