off
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒf/
ipa: /ɔːf/
enpr: ŏf
ipa: /ɔf/
ipa: /ɒf/
ipa: [ɔːf]
ipa: /ɑf/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒf
rhymes: (older Received Pronunciation, General American) -ɔːf
rhymes: (cot–caught merger) -ɑf
Forms: form: offn
Etymology: From Middle English of, from Old English of, af, æf (“from, off, away”), from Proto-West Germanic *ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“from, off, back”). Doublet of of.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots aff (“away, off”), Saterland Frisian oawe, ou (“from”), West Frisian ôf (“away, off”), Dutch af (“from, off”), German ab (“from, off”), German Low German, Luxembourgish of (“off”), Yiddish אָפּ (op, “off”), Danish, Icelandic af (“from, off”), Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk av (“off”), Swedish af, av (“off”), Gothic 𐌰𐍆 (af, “of, from”); and with Latin ab (“of, from, by”), Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “from”), and others.
Senses: examples: text: He drove off in a cloud of smoke.
text: No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:
text: So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
examples: text: Please switch off the light when you leave.
text: The dinosaurs died off long ago.
glosses: Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
examples: text: He bit off the end of the carrot.
text: Some branches were sawn off.
text: Please take your clothes off so that I can examine you.
text: The space had been sectioned off with colorful plastic shelves so that her textbooks rested on the bottom and her binders and personal effects lay across the middle.
ref: 2010, Jo Whittemore, Front Page Face-Off, page 113:
glosses: So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
examples: noises off
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Offstage.
glosses: Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
Synonyms: away
out
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from off (adverb)
word: air off
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word: auto-off
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word: back off
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word: bag off
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word: bake off
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word: ball it off
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word: ball off
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word: base off
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word: bawl off
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word: beggar off
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word: begger off
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word: bid off
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word: bird off
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word: bite off
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word: bite someone's hand off
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word: blastoff
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word: blob off
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word: boiloff
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word: bomb off
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word: booger off
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word: book off
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word: boom off
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word: bounce off
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word: brass off
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word: break off
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word: bring off
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word: bumpoff
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word: bundy off
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word: bust off
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word: call off
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word: caulk off
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word: chuck off
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word: clean off
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word: cock off
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word: cue off
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word: cutoff
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word: cut off
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word: die off
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word: doss off
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word: drop off
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word: drop off the map
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word: duck off
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word: face-off
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word: fack off
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word: fall off
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word: fall-off
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word: falling-off
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word: fall off the radar
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word: fart off
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word: fetch off
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word: flap off
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word: flex off
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word: freak off
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word: off of
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word: fuck off
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word: gaff off
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word: get off
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word: get up off
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word: go off
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word: go off at halfcock
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word: go off at half cock
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word: goof off
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word: gun off
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word: hang off
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word: hold off
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word: jack off
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word: jerk off
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word: jump off
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word: jump-off point
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word: keep off
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word: kickoff
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word: kick off
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word: kill off
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word: knock off
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word: lam off
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word: lay off
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word: layoff
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word: leave off
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word: let off
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word: let-off
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word: light off
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word: line off
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word: live off
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word: lookoff
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word: make off
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word: make off with
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word: move off
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word: nod off
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word: offboard
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word: off-chain
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word: off chance
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word: offer
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word: offglide
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word: offgoing
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word: offlist
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word: off one's block
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word: offprint
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word: offput
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word: off-ramp
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word: offscreen
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word: offski
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word: offspringing
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word: offsuit
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word: off the heezy
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word: off the shits
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word: one-off
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word: payoff
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word: pay off
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word: pickoff
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word: pig off
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word: piss off
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word: power off
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word: printoff
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word: print-off
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word: pull off
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word: put off
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word: ring off
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word: rip off
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word: ripoff
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word: round off
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word: run off
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word: runoff
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word: run off on
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word: scrawl off
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word: set off
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word: shake off
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word: shine off
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word: shove off
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word: show off
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word: showoff
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word: shuck off
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word: sit off
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word: sleep off
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word: sleep one off
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word: slip off
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word: slow off
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word: space-time trade-off
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word: spunk off
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word: stall off
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word: steam off
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word: strap-off
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word: switch off
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word: take off
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word: take off one's gloves
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word: tap off
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word: tear off
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word: tell off
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word: the wheels fall off
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word: throw off
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word: throw off on
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word: tick off
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word: time-memory trade-off
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word: trick off
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word: trog off
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word: trolley off
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word: turnoff
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word: turn off
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word: turn-off time
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word: waveoff
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word: wear off
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word: yellow off