English
Verb
to 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.
- transitive To imitate, often in a satirical manner.
#:They love to take off all the politicians' mannerisms.
- context|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.
#:*The Guardian, Thursday July 12, 2007, A welcome invasion. Article about the success of Scandinavian companies in the British market.
#: "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.
Usage notes
Only in sense 1. can the object appear before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must be before the particle. In all other transitive senses, the verb-particle unit cannot be split.
Synonyms
i-c|remove doff (applies to clothing only)
i-c|imitate ape, imitate, impersonate, mimic
i-c|become successful bloom, blossom, flourish, grow, thrive
i-c|depart See depart
Antonyms
i-c|remove don (applies to clothing only), put on
i-c|ascend land (also applies to spacecraft and some other vessels)
i-c|begin flight land, touch down
Translations
trans-top|to remove
French: enlever, ôter
German: ausziehen (clothing)
trans-mid
Italian: togliere
Kurdish: KUchar|داک�����
trans-bottom
trans-top|to imitate
:See imitate
trans-mid
trans-bottom
trans-top|to begin flight
French: décoller
Hebrew: he-translation|×�×�ר×�×�|himrÃ|wv=×�Ö´×�ְרִ×�×�
trans-mid
Italian: decollare
trans-bottom
trans-top|to become successful
trans-mid
trans-bottom
trans-top|to depart
:See depart
trans-mid
trans-bottom
Related terms
take-off
takeoff
See also
to lift off
Category:English phrasal verbs
fr:take off
io:take off
it:take off
ja:take off
fi:take off
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