Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To remove.
- v. transitive To imitate, often in a satirical manner.
- v. intransitive, of an aircraft or spacecraft To leave the ground and begin flight; to ascend into the air.
- v. intransitive To become successful, to flourish.
- v. intransitive To depart.
- v. transitive To quantify.
- v. transitive to absent oneself from work or other responsibility, especially with permission.
Examples
“Another first-person account: a couple of years ago I was about to take off on a flight to San Francisco when a portly, balding man wearing blue jeans and a polo shirt bearing words something like “Blue Sky Natural Gas Pipelines” entered my row.”
“When they had gone in by the dining-room stove to take off their wraps, Grandpa would look up from his knitting, or the nets which he made out of fishline, and smile at them and say, Well, well!”
““The SNJ was a relatively low-speed airplane,” and, he remembers, “even if you had thirty knots across the deck, you could take off easily, without a catapult.””
“Shave me down a dozen sizes, straighten and dye my hair back to its natural color, take off the goth makeup and give me a fresh-faced cover-girl glow, and I could be Laura.”
“During the clean period, when I take off the meat-suit, I feel the first inklings of something scratching at the window of my soul wanting to be let out.”
“The S-shaped diffusion curve did not take off until 1959–1960, after a clique of six superintendents adopted see Figure 8–1 for a sociogram of the thirty-eight school administrators.”
“When Onesicritus reached Calanus, the Indian teacher yelled at him to take off his clothes and sit naked before him or he would say nothing, even if Zeus himself sent him.”
“Schools are like airport hubs; student passengers arrive from many differentbackgrounds and take off for widely divergent destinations.”
“Ollila was confident that the rate of adoption of mobile phones was ready to take off worldwide.”
“Celeste swallowed a smile, but it faded on its own as she watched him take off a huge sneaker and apply blue-white light from his fingers to open the store alarm and remove it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘take off’.
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bbc uk china vocab.
conservationists, estimate, threats, infertility, eating away at, endangered, furry, panel, in trouble, gongs, triumphed, caps and 1007 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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Canadianisms
Canuck, timbit, Timbit, inukshuk, Canadianism, spiked, hyderize, canuckistan, Canuckistan, hoser, double double, Triumf and 373 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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vaca 22000
vaca 22000
put on, suit, take off, jacket, wear, pants, get dressed, wallet, purse, make the bed, bathtub, turn on and 3 more...
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Transport and travel, Mateusz
land, check-in desk, luggage, boarding card or ..., baggage reclaim, take off, aisle, railway station, platform, carriage, ticket office, coach and 4 more...
Tweets
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dario could also be to withdraw and to call. Apr 27, 2010