The difference between Ken and Offing

When used as nouns, ken means knowledge, perception, or sight, whereas offing means the area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground.

Ken is also verb with the meaning: to give birth, conceive, beget, be born.

check bellow for the other definitions of Ken and Offing

  1. Ken as a verb (obsolete):

    To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).

  1. Ken as a noun:

    Knowledge, perception, or sight.

  2. Ken as a noun (nautical):

    Range of sight.

  1. Ken as a verb (transitive, mostly, Scotland):

    To know, perceive or understand.

  2. Ken as a verb (obsolete, mostly, Scotland):

    To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.

  1. Ken as a noun (slang, UK, obsolete):

    A house, especially a den of thieves.

  1. Offing as a noun (nautical):

    The area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground.

  2. Offing as a noun (nautical):

    The distance that a ship at sea keeps away from land, often because of navigational dangers, fog and other hazards; a position at a distance from shore.

  3. Offing as a noun (figuratively):

    The foreseeable future. Chiefly in the phrase in the offing.

  1. Offing as a verb:

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