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Definition of Off

Off In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as: Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off. 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. 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. Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off. Denoting opposition or negation. Away; begone; -- a command to depart. Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore. 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. 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. The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper. Related Definitions: Abandonment, Abatement, Absent, Action, All, An, And, Animal, Are, As, Attentive, Away, Be, Bed, Begone, Business, Clip, Cloak, Command, Cut, Day, Denoting, Depart, Departure, Designating, Different, Direction, Distance, Distant, Distinction, Driver, Farther, Farthest, Fever, Field, Fishing, Fly, Foot, For, From, Game, General, He, Hence, His, Horse, House, Hat, In, Interruption, Is, Keeper, Leaving, Leg, Like, Look, March, Mile, Most, Near, Negation, Nigh, Not, Of, Off, On, One, Opposition, Or, Ox, Pain, Pare, Peel, Politics, Post, Remission, Removing, Right, Sense, Separating, Separation, Shore, Side, Strictly, Take, Team, Tear, That, The, Time, To, Took, Towards, Two, United, Urgent, When, Wicket, Year

Off Quotations I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour. Vince Neil Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. Saint Thomas Aquinas Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James A. Baldwin My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. Hank Aaron It's always nice to start off with a good result. Robbie Keane

Off Translations off in German is ausgeschaltet, von, weg, fort off in Italian is da, distante, dalla, perso, strada off in Norwegian is av off in Spanish is apagado, apartado, camino

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