English words for 'Alternative form of quitting time.'
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adj
noun
- Time when one is not working.
- (medicine) Time when the medication for a chronic condition is less effective in controlling symptoms.
- Time when the activity of a business is diminished; off-season.
- (motor racing) The point in time when the official starter signals that a race begins, as distinct from the time the race is scheduled to start (post time).
- (electronics) The time interval when no current flows.
verb
- (transitive) To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.
- To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
- (figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
- To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bladder or the bowels (to stool).
- To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
- To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
- create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)
- move people from their homes or country
- move out of an unsafe location into safety
- excrete or discharge from the body
- remove content from
verb
- (transitive) To quit (a drug or habit); to stop doing (something).
- (obsolete?) To come away (from a place); to leave.
- (intransitive) To stop playing (music).
- To occur; to take place; to turn out; to end up.
- To become detached.
- To appear; to seem; to project a certain quality.
- To escape or get off (lightly, etc.); to come out of a situation without significant harm.
- To have some success; to succeed.
- come to be detached
- happen in a particular manner
- break off (a piece from a whole)
verb
- (intransitive) To quit one's career during a period of success.
- (intransitive, climbing) To complete a route by reaching and climbing over its top.
- (intransitive) To complete the construction of a tall building, originally by putting on a "topping-out" course.
- (intransitive) To reach one's highest point.
- provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity
- give up one's career just as one becomes very successful
verb
- To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).
- To rob or mug (someone).
- (transitive) To put up to hang.
- To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).
- To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
- To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.
- (intransitive, figurative) To stop talking.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.
- interrupt a telephone conversation
- put a telephone receiver back in its cradle
- cause to be hanging or suspended
verb
noun
- leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
- (finance) A period during which, by agreement, the usual payments are not made.
- A day on which a religious event or secular celebration is traditionally observed.
- (chiefly UK, Australia) A period during which pupils do not attend their school; often plural; rarely used for students at university (usually: vacation).
- A gap in coverage, e.g. of paint on a surface, or sonar imagery.
- A day declared free from work by the state or government.
- (chiefly UK, Australia) A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural.
- a day on which work is suspended by law or custom
noun
- A period of rest; time off.
- (colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
- Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
- A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
- (colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
- (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
- A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
- The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
- (cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
- (Northern England) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- a verbal formula believed to have magical force
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation
verb
- (intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
- To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
- To constitute; to measure.
- (transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur; typically followed by a single-word noun.
- (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
- (transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
- (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
- (music) To notate or indicate a pitch, interval, or chord using a particular enharmonic spelling.
- (transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
- (intransitive, transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
- take turns working
- relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn
- indicate or signify
- place under a spell
- orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of
- write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)
verb
- take time off from work; stop working temporarily
- prove fatal
- get started or set in motion, used figuratively
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner
- make a subtraction
- depart for someplace
- remove clothes or shoes
- depart from the ground
- (intransitive) To become successful, to flourish.
- (ambitransitive) To absent oneself from (work or other responsibility), especially with permission.
- (intransitive) To depart.
- (transitive) To quantify.
- (surfing) To stand up on a surfboard and begin to surf a breaking wave.
- (transitive) To remove.
- (usually transitive) To imitate (somebody), often in a satirical manner.
- (intransitive) To leave the ground and ascend into the air or into flight.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To stop or quit (an activity, etc.).
- (transitive, finance) To execute a trade on behalf of another broker.
- (transitive) To have someone obtain (something) to one's disadvantage; to concede.
- (transitive) To lose hope concerning (someone or something)
- (intransitive) To admit defeat, capitulate; to desist for that reason.
- (intransitive, US dialectal) To acknowledge, recognize as.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To reveal (something).
- (transitive) To relinquish (something)
- (transitive) To abandon (someone or something)
- (transitive) To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone).
- allow the other (baseball) team to score
- give up what is not strictly needed
- lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime
- leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
- give up with the intent of never claiming again
- put an end to a state or an activity
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
- part with a possession or right
- stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
- give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
- stop consuming
- relinquish possession or control over
adj
noun
- A period of time when work or other activity is less intense or stops.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A period of time set aside for relaxation and rest; leisure time, free time.
- Time lost due to the failure of some system or machinery, such as a computer crash or power outage.
- a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is not operating (especially as a result of malfunctions)
noun
verb
noun
- (by extension) A small interval of time free to be spent on activities other than one's primary goal.
- (figurative) A fragment of space.
- A small opening or space between objects, especially adjacent objects or objects set closely together, such as between cords in a rope, components of a multiconductor electrical cable or atoms in a crystal.
- An interval of time required by the Roman Catholic Church between the attainment of different degrees of an order.
- small opening between things
- a small structural space between tissues or parts of an organ
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cease, quit, stop (doing something).
- (ambitransitive, art) In painting, to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat of paint so as to remove visible roller- or brush-marks, commonly using a dry brush; a similar technique, but using a loaded laying-off brush, may produce a smooth coat of paint when using a roller or the usual brush techniques would leave marks.
- (transitive) To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart.
- (transitive, of a bookmaker) To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- (transitive, chiefly US, idiomatic) (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.
- simple past of lie off
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone.
- dismiss, usually for economic reasons
- put an end to a state or an activity
verb
noun
- Alternative spelling of doddle (“a job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple”).
- An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling.
- An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey.
- Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”).
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic, British) To stop doing a regular activity, such as a job or studying.
- (music recording, computing, electronics) To insert an electronic coupling into a receptacle; to connect to something, whether involving a physical medium or not.
- (science fiction, ambitransitive) To connect a brain directly to a computer.
noun
intj
verb
- (transitive, communication) To end (an incomplete task) after a time limit.
- (intransitive, communication) Of a task, to be terminated because it was not completed before a time limit.
- (transitive, business, human resources) To record the end of one's day or shift at work.
- (transitive, cricket) To declare (the batsman) out for having taken longer than two minutes to appear on the field.
noun
- The time when someone or something is not actively making progress but will resume again later.
- (chess) The time when a tournament is paused due to time constraints, when a player's next move has been written down held until the tournament resumes, during which the player can examine possible play outcomes.
- (computer engineering) The time when a deferred operation eventually takes place.
adj
- 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.
- (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Temporarily not attending a usual place, such as work or school, especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (predicative only) Inappropriate; untoward.
- Not correct; not properly formed; not logical, harmonious, etc.
- (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- (chiefly UK) Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- (predicative only) Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
- (predicative only) Inoperative, disabled.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- (poker slang) Offsuit.
- (predicative only) Cancelled; not happening.
- Started on the way.
- (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', 'comfortably off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
- (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Far; off to the side.
- below a satisfactory level
- (of events) no longer planned or scheduled
- not performing or scheduled for duties
- not in operation or operational
- in an unpalatable state
adv
- 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.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- (theater) Offstage.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
- at a distance in space or time
- from a particular thing or place or position (‘forth’ is obsolete)
- no longer on or in contact or attached
noun
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- (colloquial, more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
- Outside the area or region of.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Temporarily not attending (a usual place), especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (slang, drugs) Under the influence of.
- (informal) As a result of.
verb
adj
- (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
- Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- (informal, somewhat derogatory) Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
- Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
- Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
- (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- (of business) not active or brisk
- at a slow tempo
- not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
adv
noun
verb
verb
noun
noun
- An extended period of leisure time away from work or school.
- leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
- An extended trip or journey away from home for rest or pleasure.
- (general) Freedom from some business or activity.
- A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
- (US, law) The act of making legally void.
- The act of vacating something; moving out.
- the act of making something legally void
verb
verb
- (informal, intransitive) To stop working; to crap out.
- (informal, transitive) To criticize a person in a ranting way or manner.
- (transitive) To remove trash and other items from an abandoned house.
- (transitive) To make (a place or thing) trashy or low-class.
- Misspelling of thrash out.
- (transitive) To ruin (a place) with vandalism, garbage, etc.
- (transitive) To insult, demean and criticize (someone).
adj
noun
- Time when one is not working.
- (medicine) Time when the medication for a chronic condition is less effective in controlling symptoms.
- Time when the activity of a business is diminished; off-season.
- (motor racing) The point in time when the official starter signals that a race begins, as distinct from the time the race is scheduled to start (post time).
- (electronics) The time interval when no current flows.
noun
- A period of rest; time off.
- (colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
- Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
- A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
- (colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
- (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
- A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
- The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
- (cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
- (Northern England) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- a verbal formula believed to have magical force
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation
verb
- (intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
- To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
- To constitute; to measure.
- (transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur; typically followed by a single-word noun.
- (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
- (transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
- (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
- (music) To notate or indicate a pitch, interval, or chord using a particular enharmonic spelling.
- (transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
- (intransitive, transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
- take turns working
- relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn
- indicate or signify
- place under a spell
- orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of
- write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)
noun
- A period of time when work or other activity is less intense or stops.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A period of time set aside for relaxation and rest; leisure time, free time.
- Time lost due to the failure of some system or machinery, such as a computer crash or power outage.
- a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is not operating (especially as a result of malfunctions)
noun
verb
noun
- (by extension) A small interval of time free to be spent on activities other than one's primary goal.
- (figurative) A fragment of space.
- A small opening or space between objects, especially adjacent objects or objects set closely together, such as between cords in a rope, components of a multiconductor electrical cable or atoms in a crystal.
- An interval of time required by the Roman Catholic Church between the attainment of different degrees of an order.
- small opening between things
- a small structural space between tissues or parts of an organ
noun
intj
verb
- (transitive, communication) To end (an incomplete task) after a time limit.
- (intransitive, communication) Of a task, to be terminated because it was not completed before a time limit.
- (transitive, business, human resources) To record the end of one's day or shift at work.
- (transitive, cricket) To declare (the batsman) out for having taken longer than two minutes to appear on the field.
noun
- The time when someone or something is not actively making progress but will resume again later.
- (chess) The time when a tournament is paused due to time constraints, when a player's next move has been written down held until the tournament resumes, during which the player can examine possible play outcomes.
- (computer engineering) The time when a deferred operation eventually takes place.
noun
- An extended period of leisure time away from work or school.
- leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
- An extended trip or journey away from home for rest or pleasure.
- (general) Freedom from some business or activity.
- A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
- (US, law) The act of making legally void.
- The act of vacating something; moving out.
- the act of making something legally void
verb
verb
noun
- leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
- (finance) A period during which, by agreement, the usual payments are not made.
- A day on which a religious event or secular celebration is traditionally observed.
- (chiefly UK, Australia) A period during which pupils do not attend their school; often plural; rarely used for students at university (usually: vacation).
- A gap in coverage, e.g. of paint on a surface, or sonar imagery.
- A day declared free from work by the state or government.
- (chiefly UK, Australia) A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural.
- a day on which work is suspended by law or custom
verb
- (transitive) To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from.
- To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.
- (figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
- To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bladder or the bowels (to stool).
- To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum.
- To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
- create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel)
- move people from their homes or country
- move out of an unsafe location into safety
- excrete or discharge from the body
- remove content from
verb
- (transitive) To quit (a drug or habit); to stop doing (something).
- (obsolete?) To come away (from a place); to leave.
- (intransitive) To stop playing (music).
- To occur; to take place; to turn out; to end up.
- To become detached.
- To appear; to seem; to project a certain quality.
- To escape or get off (lightly, etc.); to come out of a situation without significant harm.
- To have some success; to succeed.
- come to be detached
- happen in a particular manner
- break off (a piece from a whole)
verb
- (intransitive) To quit one's career during a period of success.
- (intransitive, climbing) To complete a route by reaching and climbing over its top.
- (intransitive) To complete the construction of a tall building, originally by putting on a "topping-out" course.
- (intransitive) To reach one's highest point.
- provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity
- give up one's career just as one becomes very successful
verb
- To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).
- To rob or mug (someone).
- (transitive) To put up to hang.
- To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).
- To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
- To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.
- (intransitive, figurative) To stop talking.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.
- interrupt a telephone conversation
- put a telephone receiver back in its cradle
- cause to be hanging or suspended
verb
noun
- leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
- (finance) A period during which, by agreement, the usual payments are not made.
- A day on which a religious event or secular celebration is traditionally observed.
- (chiefly UK, Australia) A period during which pupils do not attend their school; often plural; rarely used for students at university (usually: vacation).
- A gap in coverage, e.g. of paint on a surface, or sonar imagery.
- A day declared free from work by the state or government.
- (chiefly UK, Australia) A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural.
- a day on which work is suspended by law or custom
verb
- take time off from work; stop working temporarily
- prove fatal
- get started or set in motion, used figuratively
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner
- make a subtraction
- depart for someplace
- remove clothes or shoes
- depart from the ground
- (intransitive) To become successful, to flourish.
- (ambitransitive) To absent oneself from (work or other responsibility), especially with permission.
- (intransitive) To depart.
- (transitive) To quantify.
- (surfing) To stand up on a surfboard and begin to surf a breaking wave.
- (transitive) To remove.
- (usually transitive) To imitate (somebody), often in a satirical manner.
- (intransitive) To leave the ground and ascend into the air or into flight.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To stop or quit (an activity, etc.).
- (transitive, finance) To execute a trade on behalf of another broker.
- (transitive) To have someone obtain (something) to one's disadvantage; to concede.
- (transitive) To lose hope concerning (someone or something)
- (intransitive) To admit defeat, capitulate; to desist for that reason.
- (intransitive, US dialectal) To acknowledge, recognize as.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To reveal (something).
- (transitive) To relinquish (something)
- (transitive) To abandon (someone or something)
- (transitive) To surrender (someone or something); to inform on (someone).
- allow the other (baseball) team to score
- give up what is not strictly needed
- lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime
- leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
- give up with the intent of never claiming again
- put an end to a state or an activity
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
- part with a possession or right
- stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
- give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
- stop consuming
- relinquish possession or control over
adj
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cease, quit, stop (doing something).
- (ambitransitive, art) In painting, to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat of paint so as to remove visible roller- or brush-marks, commonly using a dry brush; a similar technique, but using a loaded laying-off brush, may produce a smooth coat of paint when using a roller or the usual brush techniques would leave marks.
- (transitive) To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart.
- (transitive, of a bookmaker) To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- (transitive, chiefly US, idiomatic) (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.
- simple past of lie off
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone.
- dismiss, usually for economic reasons
- put an end to a state or an activity
verb
noun
- Alternative spelling of doddle (“a job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple”).
- An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling.
- An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey.
- Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”).
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic, British) To stop doing a regular activity, such as a job or studying.
- (music recording, computing, electronics) To insert an electronic coupling into a receptacle; to connect to something, whether involving a physical medium or not.
- (science fiction, ambitransitive) To connect a brain directly to a computer.
verb
noun
noun
- A period of rest; time off.
- (colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
- Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
- A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
- (colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
- (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
- A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
- The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
- (cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
- (Northern England) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
- a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- a verbal formula believed to have magical force
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation
verb
- (intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
- To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
- To constitute; to measure.
- (transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur; typically followed by a single-word noun.
- (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
- (transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
- (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
- (music) To notate or indicate a pitch, interval, or chord using a particular enharmonic spelling.
- (transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
- (intransitive, transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
- take turns working
- relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn
- indicate or signify
- place under a spell
- orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of
- write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word)
verb
- (informal, intransitive) To stop working; to crap out.
- (informal, transitive) To criticize a person in a ranting way or manner.
- (transitive) To remove trash and other items from an abandoned house.
- (transitive) To make (a place or thing) trashy or low-class.
- Misspelling of thrash out.
- (transitive) To ruin (a place) with vandalism, garbage, etc.
- (transitive) To insult, demean and criticize (someone).
adj
noun
- Time when one is not working.
- (medicine) Time when the medication for a chronic condition is less effective in controlling symptoms.
- Time when the activity of a business is diminished; off-season.
- (motor racing) The point in time when the official starter signals that a race begins, as distinct from the time the race is scheduled to start (post time).
- (electronics) The time interval when no current flows.
adj
- 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.
- (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Temporarily not attending a usual place, such as work or school, especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (predicative only) Inappropriate; untoward.
- Not correct; not properly formed; not logical, harmonious, etc.
- (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- (chiefly UK) Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- (predicative only) Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
- (predicative only) Inoperative, disabled.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- (poker slang) Offsuit.
- (predicative only) Cancelled; not happening.
- Started on the way.
- (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', 'comfortably off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
- (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Far; off to the side.
- below a satisfactory level
- (of events) no longer planned or scheduled
- not performing or scheduled for duties
- not in operation or operational
- in an unpalatable state
adv
- 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.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- (theater) Offstage.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
- at a distance in space or time
- from a particular thing or place or position (‘forth’ is obsolete)
- no longer on or in contact or attached
noun
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- (colloquial, more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
- Outside the area or region of.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Temporarily not attending (a usual place), especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (slang, drugs) Under the influence of.
- (informal) As a result of.
verb
adj
- (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
- Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- (informal, somewhat derogatory) Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
- Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
- Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
- (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- (of business) not active or brisk
- at a slow tempo
- not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time