off

Signification (Anglais)

Adv

1. (not-comparable) In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
2. (not-comparable) Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
3. (not-comparable) So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
4. (not-comparable) Offstage.
5. (not-comparable) 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.

Adj

1. (predicative) Inoperative, disabled.
2. (predicative) Cancelled; not happening.
3. Not fitted; not being worn.
4. Denoting something faulty, unsatisfactory, objectionable etc.
5. (predicative) Denoting something faulty, unsatisfactory, objectionable etc.
6. Denoting something faulty, unsatisfactory, objectionable etc.
7. Denoting something faulty, unsatisfactory, objectionable etc.
8. (UK) Denoting something faulty, unsatisfactory, objectionable etc.
9. (Australia, broadly, slang) Denoting something faulty, unsatisfactory, objectionable etc.
10. (usually) Circumstanced.
11. Started on the way.
12. Far; off to the side.
13. Temporarily not attending a usual place, such as work or school, especially owing to illness or holiday.
14. 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.
15. (predicative) Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
16. (British) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
17. In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.

Prep

1. Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
2. Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
3. Outside the area or region of.
4. Temporarily not attending (a usual place), especially owing to illness or holiday.
5. Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
6. Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
7. Removed or subtracted from.
8. No longer wanting or taking.
9. (colloquial) Out of the possession of.
10. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
11. (slang) Under the influence of.
12. (informal) As a result of.

Verb

1. (slang, transitive) To kill.
2. (Nigeria, Philippines, Singapore, transitive) To switch off.

Noun

Beginning; starting point.

Concepts

loin

de

éteint

assassiner

au loin

quelque chose

cesser

dans

défaire

dehors

dépêcher

dériver

dévier

distant

éteinte

faux

fermé

hargneux

inopérant

large

priver

renoncer

séparé

tuer

🔪🩸👤

acheminement

à l’écart

annulé

départir

en dehors de

annulées

annulée

annulés

à

à l'écart de

abattre

absent

acide

aigre

arrêt

Opposé de

on, fresh, near, nigh, leg

Synonymes

away

from

forth

out

free

🆓

bump off

hit

afar

break

dispatch

to

bad

👎

remote

yonder

away from

frank

turned

of

slay

polish off

remove

down

do the frank

depart

gone

do the off

at

with

murder

down with

apart

closed

take out

spoilt

after

take off

veer

since

shut

disconnection

out of

something

kill

🔪🩸👤

interrupt

interruption

open

far

aside

cancelled

sour

Traductions

weg

aus

apagado

weg

entfernt

uit

ab

von

από

distante

fort

lontano

abseits

da

giù da

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɒf/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: of

Hérité de ancien anglais: of

Appartenant à écossais: of

Appartenant à frison occidental: af

Appartenant à néerlandais: af

Appartenant à allemand: ab

Appartenant à danois: af

Appartenant à norvégien bokmål: -

Appartenant à norvégien nynorsk: -

Appartenant à suédois: av

Appartenant à islandais: af

Appartenant à gotique: 𐌰𐍆

Appartenant à latin: ab

Appartenant à grec ancien: ἀπό

In summary

From Middle English of, from Old English of, af, æf (“from, off, away”), from Proto-West Germanic *ab, from Proto-Germanic *ab (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo (“from, off, back”). Doublet of of.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots aff (“away, off”), Saterland Frisian oawe, ou (“from”), West Frisian ôf (“away, off”), Dutch af (“from, off”), German ab (“from, off”), German Low German, Luxembourgish of (“off”), Yiddish אָפּ (op, “off”), Danish, Icelandic af (“from, off”), Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk av (“off”), Swedish af, av (“off”), Gothic 𐌰𐍆 (af, “of, from”); and with Latin ab (“of, from, by”), Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “from”), and others.

Phrases

When does our plane take off again .

Quand notre avion décolle-t-il à nouveau.

But the boy never took his eye off his new friend .

Mais le garçon n'a jamais détourné son œil de son nouvel ami.

A large piece suddenly came off and fell with a loud and sharp noise .

Un gros morceau s'est soudainement détaché et est tombé avec un bruit fort et pointu.

Tim kisses Leah , and the two continue where they left off .

Tim embrasse Leah et les deux continuent où ils s'étaient arrêtés.

This pepperoni tastes off , she said .

Ce pepperoni a un goût, a-t-elle dit.

They shouted consolation and promises and went off back to the town again to get help .

Ils ont crié la consolation et les promesses et sont revenus en ville pour obtenir de l'aide.