Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The rule determining whether a player is in an offside position; that is, an illegal position ahead of the ball, puck, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: various team sports
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: various team sports
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
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noun
A system that gives right-of-way at an intersection to traffic approaching from the side on which one is not driving.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, traffic, transport
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noun
In some programming languages, the convention by which the indentation of a line of source code affects its meaning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
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History
The computer-programming sense was coined by British computer scientist Peter Landin in 1966 and named after the rule in football (soccer).
