OFF

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NOUN
  • Definition - (usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.
  • Example - He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.
VERB
  • Definition - To kill.
  • Example - He got in the way so I had him offed.
  • Definition - To switch off.
  • Example - Can you off the light?
ADJECTIVE
  • Definition - Inoperative, disabled.
  • Example - All the lights are off.
  • Definition - Cancelled; not happening.
  • Example - The party's off because the hostess is sick.
  • Definition - Not fitted; not being worn.
  • Example - The drink spilled out of the bottle because the top was off.
  • Definition - Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
  • Example - This milk is off!
  • Definition - Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
  • Example - sales are off this quarter
  • Definition - Inappropriate; untoward.
  • Example - I felt that his comments were a bit off.
  • Definition - (in phrases such as 'well off', 'better off', 'poorly off') Circumstanced.
  • Example - I felt that his comments were a bit off.
  • Definition - Started on the way.
  • Example - And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose.
  • Definition - Far; off to the side.
  • Example - He took me down the corridor and into an off room.
  • Definition - Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
  • Example - He took an off day for fishing.  an off year in politics; the off season
  • Definition - (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
  • Example - He took an off day for fishing.  an off year in politics; the off season
  • Definition - (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.
  • Example - — I'll have the chicken please.
  • Definition - (in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
  • Example - The off front wheel came loose.
  • Definition - In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
  • Example - The off front wheel came loose.
ADVERB
  • Definition - In a direction away from the speaker or object.
  • Example - He drove off in a cloud of smoke.
  • Definition - Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
  • Example - Please switch off the light when you leave.
  • Definition - So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
  • Example - He bit off the end of the carrot.
  • Definition - 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.
  • Example - He bit off the end of the carrot.
PREPOSITION
  • Definition - Not positioned upon; away from a position upon.
  • Example - He's off the roof now.
  • Definition - Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
  • Example - He was thrown off the team for cheating.
  • Definition - Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
  • Example - His office is off this corridor on the right.
  • Definition - Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
  • Example - The island is 23 miles off the cape.
  • Definition - Removed or subtracted from.
  • Example - There's 20% off the list price.
  • Definition - No longer wanting or taking.
  • Example - He's been off his feed since Tuesday.
  • Definition - (more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
  • Example - He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him.
  • Definition - Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
  • Example - I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off.
Words in your word
3 Letter Words
off 9
2 Letter Words
of 5
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