How to pronounce “off”

Meaning

• [Adverb]
• In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
• Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
• So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
• (theater) Offstage.
• 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.
• [Adjective]
• (predicative only) Inoperative, disabled.
• (predicative only) Cancelled; not happening.
• Not fitted; not being worn.
• Denoting something faulty, unsatisfactory, objectionable etc.
• (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
• Started on the way.
• Far; off to the side.
• Temporarily not attending a usual place, such as work or school, especially owing to illness or holiday.
• 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.
• (predicative only) Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
• (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
• (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
• [Preposition]
• Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
• Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
• Outside the area or region of.
• Temporarily not attending (a usual place), especially owing to illness or holiday.
• Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
• Removed or subtracted from.
• No longer wanting or taking.
• (colloquial, more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
• Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
• (slang, drugs) Under the influence of.
• (informal) As a result of.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, slang) To kill.
• (transitive, Singapore, Philippines, Nigeria) To switch off.
• [Noun]
• (usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.

Practice Nearby Words

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