Dictionary

offstanding en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From off- + standing. Compare Dutch afstand (“distance”), German Abstand (“distance”), Swedish avstånd (“distance”).

Meanings

1. Standing off; standing or situated at a distance; distant; far removed; remote.
   • A nut-lock including a plate perforated to receive a bolt, having an offstanding nut-engaging flange and a neck [...] 1904, United States. Patent Office, Official gazette of the United States Patent Office: Volume 108, Part 1:
   • A conveying device, as claimed in claim 1, further including a coaxial spiral body carried by and offstanding from the core. 1969, Canada. Patent Office, Canadian Patent Office record: Volume 97:
   • Forcing teeth farther apart was formerly regarded as a necessary preliminary step to moving offstanding ones into the arch, [...] 1897, John Nutting Farrar, A treatise on the irregularities of the teeth and their correction:
   • In the offstanding hill near Little Malvern the rock is porphyritic, being composed of small, light-coloured crystals of felspar set in an amorphous greenish [...] 1865, The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London: Volume 21, Geological Society of London:

Forms

offstanding en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of offstand
   form of offstand