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Lift Off

Definition: Lift Off

Lift Off

Verb

1. 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 Off

Synonym: take off (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Lift Off

English words defined with "lift off": high stepperPaternosterstepper. (references)
Specialty definitions using "lift off": assembler, convertible topCONCRETE-STONE FABRICATORfrit burner, FRIT-MIXER-AND-BURNERINSTALLER, SOFT TOP, IRON-PLASTIC BULLET MAKERPUTTY TINTER-MAKERSNOWMAKER, Solid fueled rockets, SPLITTING-MACHINE-OPERATOR HELPERwire weaver, WIRE WEAVER, CLOTH. (references)

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Modern Usage: Lift Off

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Lift Off (1969)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Lift Off

DomainTitle

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Lift Off

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Lift Off

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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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lift Off

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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
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Modern Translations: Lift Off

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 

  

. (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

   

Portuguese

  

plagiar (crib, pirate, Plagiary). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отрыв от земли (liftoff), момент схода ракеты. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

odlepljivanje (decollation). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hacer un despegue, despegue de un cohete, despegar (blast off, detach, peel off, take down, take off, takeoff, unstick). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

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)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

стартувати (blast off), відриватися від землі, відрив від землі. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Lift Off

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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.

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Anagrams: Lift Off

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lift Off


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 66 74      4F 66 66

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01101001 01100110 01110100 00100000 01001111 01100110 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#105 &#102 &#116 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0069 0066 0074      004F 0066 0066

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

467572862497272

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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