Take Off
WordNet
verb
(1) Remove clothes
"Take off your shirt--it's very hot in here"
(2) Take away or remove
"Take that weight off me!"
(3) Make a subtraction
(4) Prove fatal
"The disease took off"
(5) Mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner
"This song takes off from a famous aria"
(6) Get started or set in motion, used figuratively
"The project took a long time to get off the ground"
(7) Leave
"The family took off for Florida"
(8) Depart from the ground
"The plane took off two hours late"
(9) Take time off from work; stop working temporarily
WiktionaryText
Verb
to take off
- To remove.
- He took off his shoes.
- The test grader takes off a point for every misspelled word.
- Tomorrow the doctor will take the cast off her arm.
- To imitate, often in a satirical manner.
- They love to take off all the politicians' mannerisms.
- To leave the ground and begin flight; to ascend into the air.
- The plane has been cleared to take off from runway 3.
- To become successful, to flourish.
- The business has really taken off this year and has made quite a profit.
- The Guardian, Thursday July 12, 2007, A welcome invasion. Article about the success of Scandinavian companies in the British market.
- "The message is now the medium – that is powerful and means products can take off practically all by themselves."
- The business has really taken off this year and has made quite a profit.
- To depart.
- I'm going to take off now.
- Take off, loser!
- To quantify.
- I'll take off the concrete and steel for this construction project.
- to absent oneself from work or other responsibility, especially with permission.
- If you take off for Thanksgiving you must work Christmas and vice versa.
- He decided to let his mother take a night off from cooking, so he took her and his siblings out to dinner.
Usage notes
Only in sense 1 and 7. can the object appear before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must be before the particle. In all other transitive senses, the verb-particle unit cannot be split.