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Definition of Even off
1. Verb. Adjust for. "Engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
Specialized synonyms: Carry, Compensate, Cover, Overcompensate
Generic synonyms: Balance, Equilibrate, Equilibrise, Equilibrize
Derivative terms: Compensation, Corrective, Counterbalance, Counterbalance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Even Off
Literary usage of Even off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New and Complete Treatise on the Arts of Tanning, Currying, and Leather by Hippolyte Dussauce (1867)
"Feel carefully through them first so as not to make useless strokes in the same
direction, and these strokes must cross each other in order to even off the ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Henry Charles Howard Suffolk, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo (1897)
"This class of hit is known as the "leg-hit," and it may be made even off balls
which pitch straight for the wicket, or even on the off-side of it. but such ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"... and off Berwickshire and Aberdeenshire by the Dutch before any arc caught off
Caithness ; and even off Yarmouth herrings have been caught in May. ..."
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