Crossword clues for offense
offense
- A feeling of anger caused by being offended
- Wounding the feelings or others
- What a QB directs
- Team with the football
- Football side
- What Tom Brady plays
- What someone who says "none taken" hasn't taken
- The side that currently has the ball
- Playmaking group
- Players with possession
- Cause of hurt feelings
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Offense \Of*fense"\, Offence \Of*fence"\, n. [F., fr. L. offensa. See Offend.]
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The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury.
Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.
--Rom. iv. 25.I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men, but I hope without offense to their memories.
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The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure; as, to cause offense.
He was content to give them just cause of offense, when they had power to make just revenge.
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A cause or occasion of stumbling or of sin. [Obs.]
Woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!
--Matt. xviii. 7. In any contest, the act or process of attacking as contrasted with the act of defending; the offensive; as, to go on the offense.
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(Sports) The members of a team who have the primary responsibility to score goals, in contrast to those who have the responsibility to defend, i.e. to prevent the opposing team from scoring goal.
Note: This word, like expense, is often spelled with a c. It ought, however, to undergo the same change with expense, the reasons being the same, namely, that s must be used in offensive as in expensive, and is found in the Latin offensio, and the French offense.
To take offense, to feel, or assume to be, injured or affronted; to become angry or hostile.
Weapons of offense, those which are used in attack, in distinction from those of defense, which are used to repel.
Syn: Displeasure; umbrage; resentment; misdeed; misdemeanor; trespass; transgression; delinquency; fault; sin; crime; affront; indignity; outrage; insult.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "hurt, harm, injury, pain," from Old French ofense "offense, insult, wrong" (13c.) and directly from Latin offensa "an offense, injury, affront, crime," literally "a striking against," noun use of fem. past participle of offendere (see offend). Meaning "action of attacking" and "feeling of being hurt" are both first recorded c.1400. Sense of "breach of the law, transgression" is first recorded late 14c. Sporting sense first recorded 1894.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of offending: 2 # a crime or sin
WordNet
n. a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others [syn: discourtesy, offence, offensive activity]
a feeling of anger caused by being offended; "he took offence at my question" [syn: umbrage, offence]
a crime less serious than a felony [syn: misdemeanor, misdemeanour, infraction, offence, violation, infringement]
the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score [syn: offence] [ant: defense, defense]
Wikipedia
Offense or Offence may refer to:
- Offence or Crime, a violation of penal law
- Offense (sports), the action of engaging an opposing team with the objective of scoring
- Offense (policy debate), arguments that make a definite value judgment about an advocacy
- The Offence, a 1972 drama film directed by Sidney Lumet
- "Offense" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
In sports, offense ( US) or offence ( Can.) (see spelling differences; pronounced with first-syllable stress; from Latin offensus), also known as attack, is the action of attacking or engaging an opposing team with the objective of scoring points or goals. The term may refer to the tactics involved in offense, or a sub-team whose primary responsibility is offense.
Generally, goals are scored by teams' offenses, but in sports such as American football it is common to see defenses and special teams (which serve as a team's offensive unit on kicking plays and defensive on returning plays) score as well. The fielding side in cricket is also generally known as the bowling attack despite the batting side being the side that scores runs. In counties other than North America, the term offence is almost always taken to mean an infraction of the rules, a penalty or foul, and attack is more likely to be used where Americans would use offense.
In policy debate, offense refers to arguments that make a definite value judgment about an advocacy.
For example, "Ice cream is bad for your health" is an offensive argument, while "Ice cream doesn't make you healthier" is a defensive argument.
At the end of the debate, the judge must make a decision between the advocacies of two teams. Offense is the way that teams definitively differentiate between the value of their advocacies so that the judge can make an informed choice. Debate is impossible without offense; a debate between someone who said "ice cream isn't perfect" and someone who said "ice cream isn't the worst food ever" would be inconclusive because neither argument actively provides direction in choosing whether or not to get ice cream.
In a situation in which one team has offensive arguments supporting an advocacy and the other team only has defensive arguments against it, the team with offensive arguments will often win. Teams often use the phrase "risk of a link" or "risk of offense" to describe this situation so that the judge can immediately identify the sole source of direction in making her or his decision. Generally, the tendency for judges to err on the side of voting for offense has been called an "offense/defense paradigm," and most judges use it for lack of a better metaframework for analyzing arguments.
For example, if the 2NR goes for a politics disadvantage with a very tenuous link, the affirmative's natural response might be: "There's no way that our plan would cause a big enough disruption in day-to-day politics to cause your impact scenario." However, if the affirmative was winning no offense elsewhere and that argument was their only response, the negative would probably win because the negative demonstrated the only possible causal connection with which the judge could pick the best outcome.
The affirmative's best option here, of course, is to propose a link turn or impact turn, so that it can generate offense against the negative, or to argue that case impacts outweigh (meaning that the 2NR's scenario is very unlikely, and that their case scenario goes conceded and has a bigger impact, so you vote aff).
Usage examples of "offense".
As there is a kind of commutation in favors, when, to wit, a man gives thanks for a favor received, so also is there commutation in the matter of offenses, when, on account of an offense committed against another, a man is either punished against his will, which pertains to vindictive justice, or makes amends of his own accord, which belongs to penance, which regards the person of the sinner, just as vindictive justice regards the person of the judge.
Venial offenses, in the passage quoted, denote the irregularities or uncleannesses which men contracted in accordance with the Law.
It was the thirteen-year-old Cieco, who had been apprenticed to Ghirlandaio at the conventional age of ten, who had taken offense.
It should be obvious that the purpose of an offense is not to compile a high batting average.
But they said that that was not an extraditable offense under the law.
This was a great gain for the aristocracy, since the offenses for which they were usually brought to trial, such as bribery, malversation, and the like, were so commonly practiced by the whole order, that they were, in most cases, nearly certain of acquittal from men who required similar indulgence themselves.
Had the Engineers, those perfervid reactionaries, taken offense at her dancing?
He did not throw himself in her way often enough to excite her suspicion that their meetings were preconcerted on his part, and even when he did overtake her or suffer her to overtake him, he avoided giving her offense by pressing his suit until another good opportunity should offer.
But the test oath prescribed after the Civil War, whereby office holders, teachers, or preachers were required to swear that they had not participated in the Rebellion, were held invalid on the ground that it had no reasonable relation to fitness to perform official or professional duties, but rather was a punishment for past offenses.
The question with the citizen to whom this oath is to be proposed must be a fearful one, for while the bill does not declare that perjury may be assigned for such false swearing nor fix any penalty for the offense, we must not forget that martial law prevails and that every person is answerable to a military commission, without previous presentment by a grand jury, for any charge that may be made against him, and that the supreme authority of the military commander determines the question as to what is an offense and what is to be the measure of punishment.
Violation of these provisions or regulations is an offense punishable by fine and imprisonment.
United States or who are brought to the United States for trial for alleged offenses committed elsewhere, not to citizens residing or temporarily sojourning abroad.
No offense to your healing skills, Nay, but Rounce is in serious need of help.
Though he cared nothing about giving offense to Roman officials, he knew instinctively that Sertes was one to handle with great caution.
It seems therefore unfitting that He should have given them offense by His teaching.