take off
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
leave
The family took off for Florida
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- dispense with also see
- departure derivation
- leave-taking derivation
- takeoff derivation
- going derivation
- takeoff derivation
- departer derivation
Sense 2 verb
take away or remove
Take that weight off me!
Types & categories
Sense 3 verb
depart from the ground
The plane took off two hours late
Types & categories
- take off hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
take time off from work; stop working temporarily
Types & categories
- interrupt hypernym
Sense 5 verb
mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner
This song takes off from a famous aria
Types & categories
- imitate hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 6 verb
remove clothes
take off your shirt--it's very hot in here
Types & categories
Sense 7 verb
get started or set in motion, used figuratively
the project took a long time to get off the ground
Types & categories
- get going hypernym
Sense 8 verb
prove fatal
The disease took off
Types & categories
- kill hypernym
Sense 9 verb
make a subtraction
subtract this amount from my paycheck
Types & categories
- calculate hypernym
- carry back hyponym
Related & opposite
- add together antonym
- subtraction derivation
- subtraction derivation
- subtractive derivation
- arithmetic domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | dispense with |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | departure |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | leave-taking |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | takeoff |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | going |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | takeoff |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | departer |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | leave |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | lift off |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | roar off |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | blaze out |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sally out |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | remove |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | undress |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | declaw |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | dehorn |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | liftoff |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | takeoff |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | take off |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | interrupt |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | parody |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | put-on |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | imitate |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | undress |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | peel off |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | slip off |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | uncloak |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | doff |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | get going |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | kill |
| 9 | antonym | Related & opposite | add together |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | subtraction |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | subtraction |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | subtractive |
| 9 | domain topic | Related & opposite | arithmetic |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | calculate |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | carry back |