ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Offstanding

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Offstanding is an adjective meaning Standing off; standing or situated at a distance; distant; far removed; remote.

Meaning

Standing off; standing or situated at a distance; distant; far removed; remote.

More Meanings

  1. present participle and gerund of offstand

Example Sentences

A nut-lock including a plate perforated to receive a bolt, having an offstanding nut-engaging flange and a neck [...]
A conveying device, as claimed in claim 1, further including a coaxial spiral body carried by and offstanding from the core.
Forcing teeth farther apart was formerly regarded as a necessary preliminary step to moving offstanding ones into the arch, [...]
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 [...]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aloof, remote, offish, distant, standoffish, away.

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