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English

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Pronunciation


Adverb

off

  1. In a direction away from the speaker or object.
  2. : He drove off in a cloud of smoke.
  3. : The book fell off the table.
  4. Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence.
  5. : Please switch off the light when you leave.
  6. : die off


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Adjective

off

  1. inoperative, disabled
  2. : All the lights are off.
  3. rotten
  4. : This milk is off!
  5. in, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman


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Preposition

off

  1. from
  2. : I got it off the internet.
  3. : This song is off their second album.


Verb

  1. to murder
  2. : He got in the way so I had him offed.
  3. (Singapore) to switch off
  4. : Can you off the light?


Derived terms

off-licence, off-license, offie, offy

Category:200 English basic words Category:Contranyms Category:English prepositions

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Off \Off\ ([o^]f; 115), adv. [OE. of, orig. the same word as R.
of, prep., AS. of, adv. & prep. [root]194. See Of.]
In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:
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1. Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile
off.
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2. Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation;
as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off,
to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to
fly off, and the like.
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3. Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement,
interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the
pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
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4. Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away;
as, to look off.
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5. Denoting opposition or negation. [Obs.]
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The questions no way touch upon puritanism, either
off or on. --Bp.
Sanderson.
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From off, off from; off. "A live coal . . . taken with the
tongs from off the altar." --Is. vi. 6.

Off and on.
(a) Not constantly; not regularly; now and then;
occasionally.
(b) (Naut.) On different tacks, now toward, and now away
from, the land.

To be off.
(a) To depart; to escape; as, he was off without a
moment's warning.
(b) To be abandoned, as an agreement or purpose; as, the
bet was declared to be off. [Colloq.]

To come off, To cut off, To fall off, To go off, etc.
See under Come, Cut, Fall, Go, etc.

To get off.
(a) To utter; to discharge; as, to get off a joke.
(b) To go away; to escape; as, to get off easily from a
trial. [Colloq.]

To take off To do a take-off on, To take off, to mimic,
lampoon, or impersonate.

To tell off
(a) (Mil.), to divide and practice a regiment or company
in the several formations, preparatory to marching to
the general parade for field exercises. --Farrow.
(b) to rebuke (a person) for an improper action; to scold;
to reprimand.

To be well off, to be in good condition.

To be ill off, To be badly off, to be in poor condition.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Off \Off\, n. (Cricket)
The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket
keeper.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Off \Off\ ([o^]f; 115), interj.
Away; begone; -- a command to depart.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Off \Off\, prep.
Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed;
two miles off the shore. --Addison.
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Off hand. See Offhand.

Off side
(Football), out of play; -- said when a player has got in
front of the ball in a scrimmage, or when the ball
has been last touched by one of his own side
behind him.

To be off color,
(a) to be of a wrong color.
(b) to be mildly obscene.

To be off one's food or To be off one's feed, (Colloq.)
to have no appetite; to be eating less than usual.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Off \Off\, a.
1. On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an
animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on
foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off
horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or
near horse or ox; the off leg.
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2. Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to
business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and,
hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an
off day for fishing: an off year in politics. "In the off
season." --Thackeray.
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3. Designating a time when one's performance is below normal;
as, he had an off day.
[PJC]

Off side.
(a) The right hand side in driving; the farther side. See
Gee.
(b) (Cricket) See Off, n.
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WordNet off
adj 1: not in operation or operational; "the oven is off"; "the
lights are off" [ant: on]
2: below a satisfactory level; "an off year for tennis"; "his
performance was off"
3: (of events) no longer planned or scheduled; "the wedding is
definitely off" [syn: cancelled] [ant: on]
4: in an unpalatable state; "sour milk" [syn: sour, turned]
5: not performing or scheduled for duties; "He's off every
Tuesday"; "he was off duty when it happened"; "an off-duty
policeman" [syn: off(p), off duty(p), off-duty(a)]
adv 1: from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is
obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get
away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding
school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the
dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off";
"go forth and preach" [syn: away, forth]
2: at a distance in space or time; "the boat was 5 miles off
(or away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away)";
"away back in the 18th century" [syn: away]
3: no longer on or in contact or attached; "clean off the
dirt"; "he shaved off his mustache"
[also: offer]
Moby Dictionary
aberrant , abnormal , abroad , absonant , absurd , adrift , adulterated ,
all abroad , all off , all wrong , aloof , amiss , askew , astray ,
at a distance , at fault , at leisure , at liberty , at loose ends ,
atonal , available , away , awry , babbling , barring , below par ,
below standard , below the mark , bereft of reason , beside the mark ,
blast , blemished , blot out , blown , brainsick , bump off ,
cacophonous , casual , clockwise , conservative , contrasting , corrupt ,
counter , crackbrained , cracked , crazed , crazy , croak , curious ,
daft , damaged , deceptive , defective , deficient , delirious , deluded ,
delusive , demented , deprived of reason , deranged , deviant ,
deviational , deviative , dexter , dextral , dextrocardial ,
dextrocerebral , dextrocular , dextrogyrate , dextrogyratory ,
dextropedal , dextrorotary , dextrorse , diaphonic , different ,
disconsonant , discordant , discounting , disengaged , disharmonic ,
disharmonious , disoriented , disparate , dissimilar , dissonant ,
distantly , distorted , distraught , divergent , diverse , dizzy , do in ,
down , eccentric , erase , errant , erring , erroneous , except ,
excepting , exception taken of , excluding , exclusive of , extra ,
fallacious , fallible , fallow , false , fat , faultful , faulty , fix ,
flat , flawed , flighty , forth , found wanting , freaked out , freaky ,
free , from , frowy , funny , gamy , get , giddy , give the business ,
grating , gun down , hallucinated , hardly like , harsh , hence ,
heretical , heterodox , high , hit , ice , idle , illogical , illusory ,
immature , immelodious , impaired , imperfect , imprecise , impure ,
in blue water , inaccurate , inadequate , incidental , incoherent ,
incomplete , inexact , inharmonic , inharmonious , insane , irrational ,
jobless , kooky , lacking , lay out , leaving out , leisure , leisured ,
less , lightheaded , loco , lumpen , lunatic , mad , maddened , makeshift ,
manic , mazed , mediocre , mental , mentally deficient , meshuggah ,
minus , mixed , moon-struck , musicless , negligible , non compos ,
non compos mentis , nonmelodious , nonuniform , not all there ,
not counting , not perfect , not right , not true , occasional ,
oceanward , oceanwards , odd , oddball , of unsound mind , off duty ,
off soundings , off the track , off the wall , off work , off-key ,
off-tone , offbeat , offshore , otiose , out , out of employ ,
out of harness , out of pitch , out of soundings , out of tone ,
out of tune , out of work , out-of-the-way , outlandish , outside ,
over , part-time , partial , passing strange , patchy , peccant ,
peculiar , perverse , perverted , polish off , psycho , quaint , queer ,
rambling , rancid , rank , ranting , raucous , raving , reactionary ,
reasonless , reechy , remotely , right , right-hand , right-wing ,
right-wingish , rub out , save , scarcely like , seaward , seawards ,
self-contradictory , senseless , settle , sharp , short , shrill , sick ,
side , singular , sketchy , slack , slender , slight , slim , sluggish ,
small , sour , soured , spare , stale , starboard , stark-mad ,
stark-staring mad , strange , straying , strident , strong ,
substandard , tainted , take care of , tetched , thence , therefrom ,
thereof , touched , tuneless , turned , unalike , unbalanced ,
undeveloped , unearthly , unemployable , unemployed , uneven ,
unfactual , unfinished , unharmonious , unhinged , unidentical , unlike ,
unmatched , unmelodious , unmusical , unoccupied , unorthodox ,
unperfected , unproved , unresembling , unsame , unsane , unsettled ,
unsimilar , unsound , unthorough , untrue , untunable , untuned ,
untuneful , wandering , wanting , waste , weird , whence , wide ,
wipe out , without , witless , wondrous strange , wrong , zap


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