Verb
take off
- (transitive) To remove.
- He took off his shoes.
- The test grader takes off a point for every misspelled word.
- Tomorrow the doctor will take the cast off her arm.
- 1980 Charlie's Angels (TV, season 4.23)
- Sounds nice. Has a certain ring to it. Take your shirt off.
- (transitive) To imitate, often in a satirical manner.
- 1986, John Le Carré, A Perfect Spy, Sceptre 2011, p. 365:
- Pym would take him off perfectly, thought Brotherhood. Pym would catch that accent to a tee.
- 1986, John Le Carré, A Perfect Spy, Sceptre 2011, p. 365:
- (intransitive, of an aircraft or spacecraft) To leave the ground and begin flight; to ascend into the air.
- The plane has been cleared to take off from runway 3.
- (intransitive) To become successful, to flourish.
- The business has really taken off this year and has made quite a profit.
- 2007 July 12, The Guardian, A welcome invasion.
- The message is now the medium – that is powerful and means products can take off practically all by themselves.
- (intransitive) To depart.
- I'm going to take off now.
- Take off, loser!
- (transitive) To quantify.
- I'll take off the concrete and steel for this construction project.
- (transitive) To absent oneself from work or other responsibility, especially with permission.
- If you take off for Thanksgiving you must work Christmas and vice versa.
- He decided to let his mother take a night off from cooking, so he took her and his siblings out to dinner.
- (intransitive, slang, dated) To take drugs; to inject drugs.
- (transitive, slang, dated) To steal (something) or rob (someone).
- (transitive, archaic) To swallow.
- to take off a glass of wine
- (remove) doff (applies to clothing only)
- (imitate) ape, imitate, impersonate, mimic
- (become successful) bloom, blossom, flourish, grow, thrive
- (depart) See depart
- (remove) don (applies to clothing only), put on
- (ascend) land (also applies to spacecraft and some other vessels)
- (begin flight) land, touch down
- takeoff (or take-off)
- take one's hat off to
- French: enlever, ôter
- German: ausziehen clothing, loslösen
- Italian: togliere
- Portuguese: tirar
- Russian: снима́ть
- Spanish: quitarse
- French: décoller, prendre son vol, prendre son essor
- German: starten
- Italian: decollare
- Portuguese: decolar, levantar voo, descolar
- Russian: взлета́ть
- Spanish: despegar
- Russian: подняться
- French: décoller, s'arracher
take off (plural take offs)
- Alternative form of takeoff#English|takeoff
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