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Definition: TAKING-OFF |
TAKING-OFFNoun1. Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t. |
Date "TAKING-OFF" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1606. (references) |
| Synonyms by domain: close-down (mechanical engineering, engineering & technology), disconnect, laying down, put out of operation, put out of service, shut-down, stop, taking off the line, taking-off place (food & agriculture, geography). |
Crosswords: TAKING-OFF |
| Specialty definitions using "TAKING-OFF": take-off run available, taking-off place. (references) |
| "TAKING-OFF" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TAKING-OFF" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "TAKING-OFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 采取 (Adopt, Adopted, Adopting, taken, taking, Took). (various references) | |
Korean | 가지 감 떨어 . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aking-offtay.(various references) | |
Vietnamese | đ giậm nhảy. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-f-g-i-k-n-o-t" | |
-3 letters: faking, fating, gitano, goniff, kation, offing, taking, toking. | |
-4 letters: fagin, fagot, faint, ganof, giant, gonia, gonif, ingot, kiang, takin, tango, tigon, tonga. | |
-5 letters: agin, agio, agon, akin, anti, fain, fang, fano, fiat, fink, fino, foin, font, gaff, gain, gait, gift, gink, gnat, goat, ikat, ikon, info, into, iota, kaif, kain, kaon, kina, king, kino, knit, knot, koan, naif, naoi, nota, oink, tain, tang, tank, tiff, ting, toff, toga, tong. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 41 4B 49 4E 47 2D 4F 46 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01000001 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00101101 01001111 01000110 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T A K I N G - O F F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0041 004B 0049 004E 0047 002D 004F 0046 0046 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54354543484115494040 |
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