Definition of Off

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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.

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Off Quotations

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Thomas Jefferson

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Mark Twain

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
George Carlin

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren Buffett

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi Berra

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Mohandas Gandhi

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Norman Vincent Peale

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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