(cricket) a fielding position on the leg side, about 70° forward of square, designed to prevent runs from drives or to catch lofted drives

Of a selection, the property of having to choose explicitly to avoid or forbid something; a decision having the default option being inclusion or permission; used particularly with regard to mailing lists and advertisement.

The act of opting out of something. / (Britain, countable) A school or hospital that has withdrawn from local control.

(cricket) An over in which no runs are scored.

(computing) Any simple operation, such as addition, multiplication or division, performed on floating point numbers using a single operation.

(cricket) the batsmen who bat in positions 5 to 7; often the poorer batsmen, the wicket-keeper and the bowlers who can bat best

(cricket) a fielding position, about 70° forward of square on the leg side, between midwicket and the bowler's wicket; a fielder at this position

A knifelike device with a blunt edge, used for slicing letters open.

(cricket) A normal ball bowled by a off spin bowler, moving from off to leg (for a right-handed batsman).

(cricket) The stump on the off side of the batsman's wicket.