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Definition: Lift Off |
Lift OffVerb1. Take off from the ground, as of an aircraft or balloon; "The plane departed two hours late". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Lift OffSynonym: take off (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lift Off |
| English words defined with "lift off": high stepper ♦ Paternoster ♦ stepper. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lift off": assembler, convertible top ♦ CONCRETE-STONE FABRICATOR ♦ frit burner, FRIT-MIXER-AND-BURNER ♦ INSTALLER, SOFT TOP, IRON-PLASTIC BULLET MAKER ♦ PUTTY TINTER-MAKER ♦ SNOWMAKER, Solid fueled rockets, SPLITTING-MACHINE-OPERATOR HELPER ♦ wire weaver, WIRE WEAVER, CLOTH. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lift Off (1969) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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High Tech |
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![]() | Apollo 15 Lift Off.Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Bumper No. 8, a captured German V-2 rocket, lifts off from Cape Canaveral. This rocket exploded in flight, but was the first to lift off from a launch pad at Cape Canaveral.Credit: NOAA in Space. |
![]() | F-117 stealth fighter lift off for a mission over Kosovo. | ![]() | U.S. Marine Corps HUS-1 helicopters lift off Boxer's flight deck, during operations off Vieques Island with the Tenth Provisional Marine Brigade, 8 March 1959. Photograph by Grantham.Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Lift off from the flight deck of USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) as she enters Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 27 June 1967. The USS Arizona Memorial is in the distance. Helicopter at left is Bureau # 152124. Photographed by PH3 B.L. Kleckner.Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Marine UH-34 Helicopters lift off from USS Princeton (LPH-5) to land "Leathernecks" in the Republic of Vietnam during Operation "Jackstay", 26 March 1966. Photographed by Journalist 1st Class E.J. Filtz, USN. UH-34 in the foreground is Bureau # 148075.Credit: NAVY. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lift off | 25 |
lift off hinge | 12 |
motsenbockers lift off | 6 |
lift off shuttle space | 4 |
lift off road | 4 |
lift off shuttle | 3 |
2 lift off | 2 |
double lift off push | 2 |
lift off road truck | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lift off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nisje (blastoff, commencement, departure, despatch, dispatch, farewell, initiation, offset, outset, parting, sailing, start), niset (departs, fly out, pull out, put out), ngrihet (bristle, flow, harden, heave), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خطف (abduct, carry off, gobble, hijack, kidnap, kidnapping, nobble, ravish, seizing, snatching, steal, whip), إنطلاق المركبة الفضائية, إرتفع (advance, arise, ascend, aspire, climb, come in, flow, hike, lift, mount, snowball, soar, spring, tower, uplift). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пускане (discharge, issuance, issue, output, release, runout, start), излитане (blastoff, start, uprise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 揭 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vzlétnout (go up), odstartovat (blast off, start, start off), odstartování. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | se décoller, enlever, décollage (liftoff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | start (activation, blastoff, boot, departure, kickoff, launch, liftoff, opening, runway, shot, start, starting, starting grid, starting line, starting post, take off, takeoff, take-off), aufheben (abolish, abrogate, annul, break, break off, cancel, cancel out, close, dissolve, do away with, fuss, keep, lever, lift, lift up, make up for, neutralize, offset, pick up, quash, raise, remove, repeal, rescind, reserve, resolve, reverse, revoke, save up, set aside, to abolish, to abrogate, to annul, to override, to pick up, to repeal, to rescind, to suspend, unmake, void, withdrawal), abheben (blast off, crawling, get out, pick up, raise, removal, set apart, take off, take out, take-off, withdraw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απογειώνω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "מרא" של חללית. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felszállás (ascent, lift-off, mounting, rise, take off, take-off), felszáll (ascend, get on, go up, lift, soar, take off, take to, to ascend, to board, to clear away, to get off the ground, to hop off, to lift off, to puff up, to shoot up, to soar, to take to the air), felemelkedik (ascend, rise, to ascend, to emerge, to lift, to lift off, to mount, to rear oneself up, to up, uprise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | decollo (departure, take off, take-off), decollare (decollate, running, start, start up, take off, to launch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iftlay offay plagiar (crib, pirate, Plagiary). (various references) отрыв от земли (liftoff), момент схода ракеты. (various references) odlepljivanje (decollation). (various references) hacer un despegue, despegue de un cohete, despegar (blast off, detach, peel off, take down, take off, takeoff, unstick). (various references) lyfta av, startögonblick, starta (begin, boot, enable, float, go, initiate, launch, originate, set off, start), start (breakaway, get away, get-away, inception, kick-off, launch, post, start, starting, start-up, takeoff). (various references) kalkmak (arise, get a hard on, get up, have a hard on, leave, lift, pull, pull away, pull away from the kerb, rise, stand on, stand up, stand upon, start, straighten, straighten up, take off), kalkış (departure, take off), havalanma (aeration, blastoff, take off, ventilation), ateşleme (discharge, firing, ignition, launching, priming, spark). (various references) стартувати (blast off), відриватися від землі, відрив від землі. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | deponam, depone, deponebamus, deponendum, deponens, deponent, deponentes, deponere, deponerent, deponeretur, deponet, deponite, deposita, depositis, depositoque, depositos, depositum, depositumque, deposuerant, deposuerunt, deposuisti, deposuit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: liftoff. | |
| Words within the letters "f-f-f-i-l-o-t" | |
-3 letters: filo, flit, foil, lift, loft, loti, tiff, toff, toil. | |
-4 letters: fil, fit, iff, lit, lot, off, oft, oil, til. | |
-5 letters: if, it, li, lo, of, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-f-f-i-l-o-t" | |
+1 letter: liftoffs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 66 74      4F 66 66 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101001 01100110 01110100 00100000 01001111 01100110 01100110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L i f t   O f f |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0069 0066 0074      004F 0066 0066 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)467572862497272 |
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