offing

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground.

   “to see (a ship) in the offing”

2. isim The distance that a ship at sea keeps away from land, often because of navigational dangers, fog and other hazards; a position at a distance from shore.

   “[…] till I ſaw the Land tun out a great Length into the Sea, at about the Diſtance of four or five Leagues before me, and the Sea being very calm I kept a large, offing to make this Point; […]”

3. isim The foreseeable future. Chiefly in the phrase in the offing.
4. fiil present participle and gerund of off