offside rule (English, noun)
expansion: offside rule
Senses:
qualifier: various team sports
glosses: The rule determining whether a player is in an offside position; that is, an illegal position ahead of the ball, puck, etc.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
qualifier: various team sports
glosses: The rule determining whether a player is in an offside position; that is, an illegal position ahead of the ball, puck, etc.
The prohibition of teammates closer to the opponents' goal than the person kicking or throwing the ball unless there are two (originally three) opponents at least as close to their goal line.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
traffic
transport
glosses: A system that gives right-of-way at an intersection to traffic approaching from the side on which one is not driving.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: In some programming languages, the convention by which the indentation of a line of source code affects its meaning.
Forms:
form: off-side rule
tags: alternative