off

Meaning

1. In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
2. Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
3. So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
4. Offstage.
5. 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.

away

from

away from

do the frank

do the off

off-balance

right off

right out

scraped off

subject to

switched off

switching off

turn off

non-working

snatch away

to the side

not busy

unretentive

waste

broken circuit

in her

in him

eat off

hanging-up

middle break

interruption of circuit

discon

displacement of fault

circuit break

linear switching

at a distance

be off

dependent on

in it

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɒf/

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 of, af (“off, away”), West Frisian af, ôf (“off, away”), Dutch af (“off, from”), German Low German of (“off, from”), German ab (“off, from”), Danish af (“of, off”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish av (“of, off”), Icelandic af (“of, off”), Gothic 𐌰𐍆 (af, “of, from”); and with Latin ab (“of, from, by”), Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “from”), and others.