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Definition: TO LEAVE OFF |
TO LEAVE OFF1. (a) To desist from; to forbear; to stop; as, to leave off work at six o'clock. (b) To cease wearing or using; to omit to put in the usual position; as, to leave off a garment; to leave off the tablecloth. (c) To forsake; as, to leave off a bad habit. |
Crosswords: TO LEAVE OFF |
| English words defined with "TO LEAVE OFF": apparently ♦ evidently ♦ Forleave ♦ manifestly ♦ obviously, on the head ♦ patently, plain, plainly ♦ To knock in the head, To knock off. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO LEAVE OFF": Brachycatalectic ♦ Catalectic ♦ Desinent. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
John Stuart Mill | The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off. |
Samuel Butler | To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | So they set to work and fanned her with bunches of leaves, till she had to beg them to leave off, it blew her hair about so. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "TO LEAVE OFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | nem hord többet, megszűnik (to be no more, to break off, to cease, to fold, to give up, to peter out), letesz (ground, lay, lay down, put down, repose, to depose, to discard, to lay aside, to lay by, to pillow, to plonk down, to put down, to resign, to set down, to stick down), felhagy (leave off, to break with, to discard, to discontinue, to go off, to lay aside, to lay by), abbamarad (break off, cease, to break off, to cease, to come to nothing, to give over), abbahagy (cease, discontinue, give up, knock off, lay aside, leave off, quit, relinquish, snap out of it, stop, to break off, to can, to cease, to discard, to discontinue, to dismiss, to give over, to give up, to lay aside, to lay by, to relinquish, to sign off, to stop, to switch off). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 積み残す (to leave off cargo), 切りが良い (to be a good place to leave off), 切り (all there is, bounds, closing sentence, end, limits, only, period, place to leave off, since). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | きりがいい (to be a good place to leave off), きり (all there is, auger, bounds, closing sentence, drill, end, fog, limits, mist, only, paulownia tree, period, place to leave off, since), つみの"す (to leave off cargo). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay eavelay offay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cesso, desino (desiit). (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | apayûxtât, sadayeiti. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-f-l-o-o-t-v" | |
-2 letters: foveolae, foveolet. | |
-3 letters: foveate, foveola, foveole. | |
-4 letters: foetal, folate, footle, foveae, foveal, oleate, toffee, velate. | |
-5 letters: afoot, aloft, aloof, elate, fetal, fleet, float, flota, fovea, laevo, leave, loofa, lovat, offal, ovate, telae, valet, volta, volte. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 4C 45 41 56 45 4F 46 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01001100 01000101 01000001 01010110 01000101 00100000 01001111 01000110 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   L E A V E   O F F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 004C 0045 0041 0056 0045 004F 0046 0046 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449246393556392494040 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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