▸ noun: An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome). ▸ noun: (by extension) Any adverse event, defeat, or impediment of progress. ▸ noun: (US) The required distance between a structure and a road. ▸ noun: (architecture) A step-like recession in a wall. ▸ noun: An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual. ▸ noun: (possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy. ▸ noun: (archaic) A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
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