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What's The Definition Of Off?
[adv] from a particular thing or place or position; "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school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; (`forth' is obsolete as in"go forth and preach")
[adv] 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" [adv] no longer on or in contact or attached; "clean off the dirt"; "he shaved off his mustache" [adj] not in operation or operational; "the oven is off"; "the lights are off" [adj] (of events) no longer planned or scheduled; "the wedding is definitely off" [adj] below a satisfactory level; "an off year for tennis"; "his performance was off" [adj] in an unpalatable state; "sour milk" Synonyms | Synonyms for Off: away | cancelled | disconnected | forth | sour | soured | turned | unsatisfactory Related Terms | Find terms related to Off: 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 | offbeat | off-key | offshore | off-tone | otiose | out | out of employ | out of harness | out of pitch | out of soundings | out of tone | out of tune | out of work | outlandish | out-of-the-way | outside | over | partial | part-time | 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 See Also | Off In Webster's Dictionary \Off\, 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:
1. Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile
off.
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.
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.
4. Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away;
as, to look off.
5. Denoting opposition or negation. [Obs.]
The questions no way touch upon puritanism, either
off or on. --Bp.
Sanderson.
{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 mimic or personate.
{To tell off} (Mil.), to divide and practice a regiment or
company in the several formations, preparatory to marching
to the general parade for field exercises. --Farrow.
{To be well off}, to be in good condition.
{To be ill off}, {To be badly off}, to be in poor condition.
\Off\, interj. Away; begone; -- a command to depart. \Off\, prep. Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore. --Addison. {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}, to be of a wrong color. {To be off one's food}, to have no appetite. (Colloq.) \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. 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. {Off side}. (a) The right hand side in driving; the farther side. See {Gee}. (b) (Cricket) See {Off}, n. \Off\, n. (Cricket) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper. |
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