Off
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English
| Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg. | ||||||
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| things | left | part | #160: off | took | nothing | God |
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Pronunciation
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Adverb
off
- In a direction away from the speaker or object.
- He drove off in a cloud of smoke.
- The book fell off the table.
- Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence.
- Please switch off the light when you leave.
- die off
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Usage notes
- Used in many phrasal verbs, off is an adverbial particle often mistakenly thought of as a preposition. (It can be used as a preposition, but such usage is still rare and always informal; see below.)
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Antonyms
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Derived terms
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Translations
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Adjective
off
- inoperative, disabled
- All the lights are off.
- rotten
- This milk is off!
- (cricket) 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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Antonyms
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Translations
- Catalan: (2) fet malbé
- Dutch: uit (1)
- Finnish: pois (1), pois päältä (1)
- French: (1): éteint m, éteinte f
- German: (2): schlecht, verdorben
- Italian: (1): spento m, spenta f
- Norwegian: av
- Spanish:
- Vietnamese:
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Preposition
off
- (informal) from
- I got it off the internet.
- This song is off their second album.
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Transitive verb
to off (third-person singular simple present offs, present participle offing, simple past offed, past participle offed)
- (slang) to murder
- He got in the way so I had him offed.
- (Singapore) to switch off
- Can you off the light?
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Derived terms
off-licence, off-license, offie, offyde:off fr:off io:off it:off hu:off pt:off