Take Off

Definition: Take Off

Take Off

Verb

1. Leave; "The family took off for Florida".

2. Take away or remove, "Take that weight off me!".

3. Take off from the ground, as of an aircraft or balloon; "The plane departed two hours late".

4. Take time off from work; stop working temporarily.

5. Mimic or imitate, esp. in an amusing or satirical manner; "This song takes off from a famous aria".

6. Remove clothes; "take off your shirt--it's very hot in here".

7. Get started or set in motion, used figuratively, as of a project,.

8. Remove; "He doffed his hat".

9. Prove fatal; "The disease took off".

10. : make a subtraction.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Take Off

Ascent

Go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off; spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards; hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge; leap.

Bluntness

Verb: be blunt, render blunt; Adjective: obtund, dull; take off the point, take off the edge; turn.

Courtesy

Uncover, cap; touch the hat, take off the hat; doff the cap; present arms; make way for; bow; make one's bow, make a leg; scrape, curtsy, courtesy; bob a curtsy, bob a courtesy; kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee.

Destruction

Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.

Disclosure

Verb: disclose, discover, dismask; draw the veil, draw aside the veil, lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, uncover, unseal, unkennel; take off the seal, break the seal; lay open, lay bare; expose; open, open up; bare, bring to light.

Discount

Verb: discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance; tax.

Displacement

Verb: displace, misplace, displant, dislodge, disestablish; exile; (seclude); ablegate, set aside, remove; take away, cart away; take off, draft off; lade.

Divestment

Verb: divest; uncover; (cover; ); denude, bare, strip; disfurnish; undress, disrobe; (dress, enrobe; ); uncoif; dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt, mew; cast the skin.

Imitation

Mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate; act; (drama); represent; counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, lampoon, burlesque.

Moderation

Moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy; attemper, contemper; mollify, lenify, dulcify, dull, take off the edge, blunt, obtund, sheathe, subdue, chasten; sober down, tone down, smooth down; weaken; lessen; (decrease); check palliate.

Navigation

Fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide.

Receiving

Take in, catch, touch; pocket; put into one's pocket, put into one's purse; accept; take off one's hands.

Relief

Disburden; (free); take a load off one's chest, get a load off one's chest, take off a load of care.

Taking

Take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off; adeem; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave.

Crosswords: Take Off

All I know is, on the day your plane was to leave, if I had the power, I would turn the winds around, I would roll in the fog, I would bring in storms, I would change the polarity of the earth so compasses couldn't work, so your plane couldn't take off. (L.A. Story; writing credit: Steve Martin.)

You guys aren't one of those freaky cults are you? Ya know, who dance naked and you want us to take off our clothes and feed us special punch (Bio-Dome; writing credit: Adam Leff; Mitchell Peck)

Moltar, take off your helmet show me your true face (Space Ghost Coast to Coast; writing credit: Ben Karlin)

You had me take off my cross because it offended (The Masque of the Red Death; writing credit: Charles Beaumont; R. Wright Campbell)

Y'know, it's not like Peter to take off in the middle of a gig. (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner)

Take off, all your preppy clothes (Complicated; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

Come inside take off your coat, (I Wanna Sex You Up; performing artist: Color Me Badd)

Come on take off your pride baby (Feel So High; performing artist: Des'ree)

Why don't we take off alone ((Just Like) Starting Over; performing artist: John Lennon)

So take off all your clothes (Hot in Herre; performing artist: NELLY)

Take Off Your Clothes and Live (1962)

Ready for Take Off (1997)

Take Off (1995)

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

Books

• Take Off in French (With Audio CDs) (reference)

• Take Off!: How Long Island Inspired America to Fly (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Take off, Vol. 1: Boundaries (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Take Off Your Pants & Jacket [Clean Version] (reference)

• Take Off & Landing (reference)

• Take Off Da Hot Sweater (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Civil Tilt Rotor Take Off. Credit: NASA.

Effect of TwinJet Exhausts in Simulation Take Off. Credit: NASA.

Rockets or JATO Jet Assisted Take Off Units. Credit: NASA.

Bush plane that will never take off again Triangulation party of Norman Sylar. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Two MH-60G Pave Hawks take off.

USS Lexington (CV-2) during the action, seen from USS Yorktown (CV-5), 8 May 1942. Large number of planes on deck and low sun indicate that the photo was taken early in the morning, prior to launching the strike against the Japanese carrier force. Yorktown has several SBDs and F4Fs on deck with engines running, apparently preparing to take off. Lexington, whose silhouette has been altered by the earlier removal of her 8-inch gun turrets, has planes parked fore and aft, and may be respotting her deck in preparation for launching aircraft. Credit: NAVY.

United Nations' delegates stand by a U.S. Air Force H-5 helicopter with General Matthew B. Ridgway, U.S. Army, Commander in Chief United Nations Command, prior to take off for the initial Armistice talks meeting, 10 July 1951. They are (from left to right): Rear Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN, Major General Laurence C. Cragie, U.S. Air Force, Major General Paik Sun Yup, Republic of Korea Army, Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, USN, Chief Delegate, General Ridgway, and Major Henry I. Hodes, U.S. Army. Credit: NAVY.

Take off. Credit: Library of Congress.

Seated in the rear cockpit, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commander in Chief of A.F.H.Q., readies himself for the take off to fly back from the front lines. Piloting the plane is Maj. T.J. Walker, Fifth Army Artillery office, Venafro sector, Italy / U.S. Ar. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Rebel Fleet of Flag of Truce Boats in the Savannah River going down to the Leary & Hermann Livingstone to take off Rebel prisoners. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To which, if one shall add rewards and punishments visibly employed to the same end, and all the arts of perverted law made use of, to take off and destroy all that stand in the way of such a design, and will not comply and consent to betray the liberties of their country, it will be past doubt what is doing. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She let them take off her shoes and rub her feet

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Take off the cap and shake the inhaler. (references)

You may also feel especially tired from the chemotherapy as early as one day after a treatment and for several days. It may help to schedule your treatment when you can take off the day of and the day after your treatment. (references)

Business

Now, four or five years on, air conditioning is often included in the price of a new car, meaning that the market for sunroofs as an accessory has started to take off again. (references)

According to Government officials and industry associations, recovery is expected during the second half of 2001, as EU legislation will be enforced and long-awaited waste-management projects are expected to take off finally. (references)

The market for Application Service Providing via the Internet (ASP) is currently still very small in Netherlands, but is expected to take off within the next two to three years, starting with the larger multinational Dutch companies. (references)

Economic History

Germany

The company's total online sales amounted to DEM 2.1 billion (USD 945 million) for 2000/2001. Selling groceries over the Internet is unlikely to take off in Germany. (references)

India

To achieve the targets laid down in the ninth five-year plan and the New Telecom Policy 1999, the government is planning to expand its network to attain tele-density of nine by the year 2007 and 15 by 2010. The long-distance telephony is poised to take off, and there are many players already in the fray. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Good Continental and Ghanaian cuisine - great for a meal while you are waiting for your plane to take off or land. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "take off": take off a load of care ♦ take off an embargo ♦ take off board ♦ take off its hinges ♦ take off one's clothes ♦ take off one's coat ♦ take off one's hands ♦ take off one's hat ♦ take off one's shoes ♦ take off smb.'s clothes ♦ take off the cover ♦ take off the edge ♦ take off the pressure of the work ♦ take off the slag ♦ take off the university register ♦ take off your coat ♦ To take off. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afhaal (put off, take). (various references)

Albanian

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, lift off, 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 out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سحب (call, dash, disengage, draft, drag, dragging, draught, draw, drawing, drawing out, hang fire, haul, heave, lug, pull, recall, recant, retreat, revoke, revulsion, run, strain, take back, tow, traction, trail, train, tug, withdraw, withdrawal), ‏إقتلع (displace, extirpate, extract, lift, plow, pluck, pull, root, tear, tear out, weed out), ‏إقلاع (embarkation, lift, outgoing), ‏إنصرف (clear off, clear out, depart, dismiss, get away, go away, go off, make tracks, part, pop off, run along, scram, sling one's hook, vacate), ‏إنطلاق (airiness, break, dash, discharge, flight, get away, kick, licking, rush, starting), ‏إنعاش إقتصادي (salvation), ‏خلع (depose, deposition, discharge, dislocate, extraction, luxate, luxation, put out, slip, slip off, socket, strip, yank), ‏بتر (amputate, amputation, curtail, maim, mangle, mutilate, mutilation, resect, resection, stump, truncate), ‏طوق (band, be hemmed in, belt, besiege, cincture, circle, circumvent, clip, collar, compass, corral, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enfold, entrench, envelop, fret, gird, girdle, hedge, hem, hoop, impale, inclose, include, invest, outflank, ring, round, strap, surround, zone), ‏كشف (bare, bring to light, detect, disclose, disclosure, discover, divulge, expose, exposure, find out, lay bare, lay open, lift, make known, open, remove, reveal, revelation, show up, uncover, unearth, unfold, unveil), ‏حاكى (burlesque, copy, emulate, imitate, mimic, pattern, simulate), ‏حلق (aspire, circle, ear ring, fauces, flatten out, flit, float, fly, fly off, gorge, gullet, hawk about, larynx, pharynx, plane, ring, rise, shaving, soar, throat, tower, trim), ‏قلع (gouge, lever, lifting, pull, rip, root), ‏نزع (dig up, disarmament, evisceration, extraction, plucking out, removal, remove, slough, snap, spring, strip, supplant, take down, tear out), ‏نهوض (arousal, rebound, rise), ‏مختارات موسيقية, ‏طار (fly, flying, plane, rise, stream, swarm, take wing, volatilize, whiffle, wing, winnow). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отскачам (bounce, bound, carom, glance, jump, jump back, kick, nip, rebound, recoil, resile, skip, spring), имитатор (counterfeiter, imitator, mimic, simulator), пародия (burlesque, mimicry, mock, parody, put on, rib, send up, skit, travesty), произхождам (accrue, come from, derive, descend, emanate, evolve, issue, spring, stem), ампутирам (amputate), задрасквам (cancel, cross out, deface, delete, expunge, scratch off, scratch out, strike through), започвам (begin, come in, commence, enter, enter on, fall to, get under way, handsel, initiate, institute, jump off, kick off, lead, lead off, open, preface, premise, roll, set in, set out on, set up, settle in, start off, start up, tee off, teethe, trigger), махам от, махам се (make one's scarce, make oneself scarce, pack off, piss off, quit, run along, scat, scoot, scram, sheer off, shove off), отивам си (be off, buzz, clear off, exit, get away, go, go away, go off, leave, off it, part, pass, piss off, pop off, pull away, push along, quit, remove, run along, sheer off, shunt, walk away), отлитам (flit, fly away, fly by, fly off, take wing), отлитане (migration), отнасям (blow away, carry away, number, relate, snatch, subsume, take away, walk away with, wash away, whiffle, whip off), отвеждам (carry, carry off, derive, get away, lead, lead off, offset, pipe, sluice, take, walk away), изпивам (consume, down, drain, drink, drink up, lower, put away, shift, suck down, suck up), комична имитация, събличам (disarray, disrobe, divest, doff, pull off, remove, strip, throw off, unclothe, undress, unrobe), свалям от сцената, свалям от екрана, свалям (bring down, cast off, doff, douse, down, drop, drop off, get down, get off, land, lay, let off, overthrow, prang, prostrate, pull down, pull off, put down, put off, reach down, remove, ring down, rip down, rush, set down, shuck off, shuffle off, stretch, take down, tear away, tear down, tear off, throw off, turn down, unbelt, uncap, unhorse, unship, vail), снемам (reach down, take down, unhang), отклонявам се (break, depart, deviate, digress, dissent, diverge, dodge, oblique, part, run off, stray, swerve, swing, turn aside, turn off, wander), трамплин (jumping-board, plunge-board, springboard, steppingstone), отрязвам (amputate, crop, cut away, cut off, excise, exscind, intercept, lop, nip off, sever, shear, slice off, snip off), карикатура (burlesque, caricature, cartoon, send up), грабвам (catch up, grab, nip, snap up, snatch, steal away, waltz off with, whip away, whip off, whip up, whisk), глътвам (suck down, take a gulp), водя началото си (originate), осмивам (deride, lampoon, mock, ridicule, satirize, scoff, sneer, twit), съкращавам (abbreviate, abridge, cancel, condense, contract, curtail, cut short, discard, elide, prune, reduce, retrench, slash, terminate, truncate), рязко се подобрявам. (various references)

Chinese 

褪 (fade), 卸 (unload). (various references)

Czech

smeknout (bow, cap, slip off), náhle odejet, napodobování (mimicry), odeèíst (deduct), odklopit, odkrýt (bare, detect, discover, enucleate, expose, open, uncover), odložit (abort, adjourn, cast aside, cast off, defer, delay, discard, doff, get off, hang out, hold over, lay aside, lay by, Park, postpone, put aside, put away, put off, recess, reprieve, stay, suspend, throw away), odnést (carry, carry away, carry off, take away), odraz (bounce, rebound, reflection, reflexion, reverberation, ricochet, takeoff), odvolat (abolish, abrogate, annul, call, call away, call back, call off, cancel, countermand, cry off, draw off, recall, recant, renounce, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, swallow, take back, undo, unsay, unswear, withdraw), amputovat (amputate, remove), sejmout (cut, remove, take down, unswathe), zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, break off, call off, cancel, close down, countermand, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, revers, reverse, revoke, set aside, stop, strike off, sweep, undo, unmake, vitiate, void, withdraw), start (blastoff, start, starting post, takeoff), startovat (get off), svléci (dishabille, disrobe, get off, put off, Slough, strip, unclothe, undress), uříznout (cut off), ubrat (cast off), ujmout se (take smth. on board, take up, undertake), utéci (abscond, boil over, elope, escape, flee, run away, run off, scape), vzlet (ascent, swing, takeoff), vzletìt, parodie (burlesque, parody, skit, takeoff, travesty). (various references)

Danish

vækstfase. (various references)

Dutch

uittrekken (destine, earmark, emigrate, lengthen, ordain, put off), uitkrýgen (put off, read, read out), uitdoen (extinguish, put off, put out, turn off), afzetten (amputate, amputation, depose, deposit, deprive, dismiss, fit out, fleece, garnish, put off, shut off, stop, switch off, trim, turn off), afleggen (abandon, cover, go through, layer, pass through, put off), afdoen (conclude, dispatch, expedite, finish, finnish, put off, settle). (various references)

Esperanto

demeti (put off). (various references)

Faeroese

leggja frá sær (put off). (various references)

Finnish

tinkiä hinnasta, vähentää (curtail, cut, decrease, deduct, detract from, diminish, lessen, reduce, subtract, take from), riisua yltään, riisua päältään, riisua jalasta, riisua (undress), ponnistaa (exert, make an effort, strain, strive, struggle), ottaa pois (suspend, take away from, withdraw), ottaa (draw, get, lay hold of, pick up, remove, take, take away), nousu (advance, ascent, increase, rise, rising, slope), nousta lentoon, nousta (arise, get into, get up, increase, rise, stand up). (various references)

French

enlever, décollage (takeoff). (various references)

Frisian

ôfsette (amputate, put off), ôflizze (put off), ôfdwaan (put off). (various references)

German

abspulen (reel off, take up, to take up, uncoil, unreel, unwind), ansatz (approach, appropriation, attachment, attempt, basic approach, beginning, coating, departure, deposition, estimate, extension, first sign, formation, join, layer, rudiment, run up, takeoff), anlaufen (accrue, begin, call at, come running up, initiate, mist up, mount up, open, put into, rise, start, start off, start running, steam up, take a run-up, tarnish, to initiate, touch at, warm up), ankommen (arrival, arrive, catch on, come, come across, come along, come down, end up, get, get in, get over, get to, go down, go down well, go over, hinge, move in, pull in, to arrive, wander in), angehen (approach, ask, attack, combat, come at, come on, concern, fight, go off, go on, start, start burning, strike, tackle), amputieren (amputate), abziehen (bottle, decal, deduct, detract, disengage, escape, fire, flay, go away, go off, move away, peel away, peel back, print, print off, pull off, pull out, remove, roll away, run off, sharpen, siphon off, skin, slope away, slope off, squeeze the trigger, strip, strip off, strop, subtract, subtraction, take away, to deduct, to strop, to subtract, withdraw, withdrawal), abfliegen (depart, fly away, fly off, fly over, go, migrate, takeoff), abstreifen (cast, get rid off, shuffle off, slip off, Slough, strip, to strip, wipe, wipe off), entfernen (abort, clearance, detach, dislodge, dispense with, do away with, excise, get rid of, oust, pick, remove, take out, to dislodge, to eliminate, to remove), absprung (dismount, jump, leap, takeoff), abspringen (back out, bale, bale out, bounce off, chip, come off, dismount, flake off, jump, jump down, jump out, opt out, parachute, peel off, to jump off), abrechnen (cash up, count down, deduct, get even, liquidate, settle, settle up, square up, to deduct), abnehmen (administer, amputate, become less crass, buy, carry out, decline, decrease, deduct, diminish, drop, ebb, extract, flag, go down, hold, inspect, lessen, lift, lose weight, pull off, reduce one's weight, relieve, remove, shrink, slack off, slacken off, slim down, slow down, tail off, take away, take down, thin down, to lose weight, to take down, to take off, unpeg, unship, wane, wanes), abmachen (agree, agree on, arrange, settle, take down, undo, unfix, untack), abheben (blast off, get out, lift off, pick up, raise, set apart, take out, withdraw), abflug (departure, migration, takeoff), abwickeln (carry out, complete, conclude, handle, liquidate, phaseout, run, take up, to take up, to transact, transact, uncoil, unreel, unroll, unwind, wind up), nachlassen (abate, abatement, bequeath, decrease, deteriorate, die away, die down, dim, diminish, discount, drop, ease, ease off, ease up, fade, fail, failure, fall, flag, go, intermit, knock off, lessen, letup, loosen, moderate, rebate, reduce, relax, relaxation, relent, remit, respite, sink, slack off, slacken, slacken off, softening, subside, tail off, to abandon ship, to abate, to ease up, to intermit, to slacken, wane, waver, weaken, wear off), wegnehmen (absorb, abstract, block out, detach, get rid off, keep off, move, remove, shift, take, take away, take out, to take away, withdraw, withdrawn), urlaub machen (holiday, take a vacation, vacation), starten (blast off, commence, get under way, initate, launch, launch forth, launch out, power up, race, run, set off, start, starts, take-off, to launch), start (activation, blastoff, boot, departure, kickoff, launch, lift off, liftoff, opening, runway, shot, start, starting, starting grid, starting line, starting post, takeoff), sich davonmachen (abscond, make away, make off, sheer off), sich absetzen (be deposited, break away, clear out, collect, contrast, defect, hive off, pull ahead, stand out), parodieren (burlesque, parody, spoof), ausziehen (discard, doff, draw out, extend, extract, move out, pull off, pull out, put off, put up, remove, set forth, set out, shed, slip off, strip, strip off, supplied, take out, trace, undress, walk out), nachmachen (copy, counterfeit, fake, forge, imitate, mimic, to clone), demontieren (dismantle, to dismantle), nachahmung (copy, copying, emulation, imitation, impersonation, impression, mimicking, mimicry, simulation, takeoff, take-off), nachäffen (ape, copy, mimic, monkeying), losmachen (cast off, disengage, free, groove, let off, loose, release, slip, unfasten, unfix, unfurl, unhitch, unloose, unmoor, unstick, untie), loslösen (carve out, detach, loosen, remove), lösen (break off, buy, cancel, cast off, cutting, detach, disengage, dislodge, dissolve, ease, let off, loosen, release, remove, resolve, sever, severance, solve, sort out, tackle, to detach, to part, to tackle, unbind, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unfix, unfold, unloose, unravel, unstick, untie, work out), herunternehmen (take down, to take down), zurücklegen (achieve, act, carry out, cover, do, lay aside, lay away, lay back, lean back, log, log up, make, perform, put aside, put away, put back, put off, recline, replace, replacement, return, store), parodie (burlesque, parody, spoof, takeoff). (various references)

Greek 

απογειώνομαι (get airborne). (various references)

Hawaiian

heq (put off). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשלוף (draw out, fish out, pull off, unsheathe), לחלוץ (arm, deliver, draw, extract, extricate, pull out, rescue, unship), לז� ק (dart, dash, fling, gush out, leap, lunge, pounce, spring, spring forth, squirt, start), ל�"מריא (sail, soar), ל�"סתלק (be off, depart, exit, get away, go away, go off, make off, pop off, retire, scat, scram, sheer off, skip, withdraw), חקוי � לע�' (travesty), ז� וק (dart, dash, jump, leap, pounce, sortie, spring, start, swoop), �"מרא�" (flight), � תור (hop, jerk, jumping, leaping, skip). (various references)

Hungarian

felszállás (ascent, lift off, lift-off, mounting, rise, take-off). (various references)

Indonesian

mencopoti (repeatedly), mencopot (extract, pull out, remove, shear, untie), mencoplok (detach), keberangkatan (departure). (various references)

Italian

togliere (decrease, disfranchise, free, get out, go away, lose weight, peel back, pick, pull, put, put off, quench, raise, relieve, remove, slim, strip, take, take away, take from, take out, wear off, wipe away), decollo (lift off), decollare (decollate, lift off, running, start, start up, to launch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

裸になる (to take off one's clothes, to undress), 脱ぐ (to take off clothes). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くつぬぎ (place to take off one's shoes before entering a house, place where one can remove one's shoes), ぼうし�'とる (to take off one's hat), ふみきる (to make a bold start, to take a plunge, to take off), ぬぐ (to take off clothes), いちもくおく (to acknowledge anothers superiority, to give a piece or stone, to take off one's hat to a person), めがね�'はずす (to take off one's glasses), は� かになる (to take off one's clothes, to undress), とびたつ (to fly away, to jump up, to leap to one's feet, to start up, to take off). (various references)

Manx

irree jeh'n thalloo. (various references)

Pig Latin

aketay offay.(various references)

Polish

zdjąć (put off). (various references)

Portuguese

tirar (abstract, bag, deduct, disbud, doff, drag out, force, get, get off, haul, iron out, lay hold of, lug, pick, pick up, pilfer, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, put off, remove, rip, rub out, scour, take, take away, take out, tear off, vail, withdraw, wrest), sair (back off, depart, draw out, exit, flit, get off, get out, go out, issue, leave, move away, move out, pull out, to come out, to get out, to go out, tumble), partir (absent onself, break, crack, depart, fissure, flit, foliate, fracture, go, go away, knap, leave, outbreak, part, pull out, quit, sail, shove off, slice, smash, split, start, start running, take one's leave), levantar vôo, ir embora (get away, get out, go away, leave, make off, off, put out), depor (declare, defrock, depone, depose, discrown, put down, put off, state, unseat), decolar (lift off), alçar vôo (douche). (various references)

Romanian

scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, concoct, deduce, delete, deliver, dig, discharge, dismiss, draw out, drive away, edit, elicit, emit, exhaust, expel, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gouge, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put off, put out, quarry, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strike out, strip, take out, utter), scãdea (abate, abstract, decay, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, depress, derogate from, diminish, drop, dwindle, ebb, fade, fall, go down, lower, recede, reduce, relax, sag, shrink, sink, subside, subtract, wane), reduce preţul (beat down), pornire (beginning, departure, go off, move, outset, starting, tendency), imitare (counterfeit, imitation, mimicry, mock), dezbrãca (disarray, disrobe, Harry, Peel, strip, throw off, undress), decolare, caricaturã (caricature, cartoon), avânt (approach, dash, elan, enthusiasm, fire, flight, impetus, lift, momentum, run, soar, soaring, spring, upsurge). (various references)

Russian 

снимать (demount, dismast, dismount, doff, film, get off, pull off, remove, rent, shoot, skimming, uncover, unhang, unhung, vail). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzlet (ascent), smaći (remove), skinuti (decorticate, divest, do away, doff, get down, pull off, remove, shed, skim, strip, take down, throw off, unfix, unhang, vail), skidati (remove, take down), poleteti (blast off, dash, wing), poletanje (blast off, mission), odraziti se, odraz (reflection, reflexion), odmagliti (beat it, leave, pack up, pop off, scat, skip), ne raditi, karikiranje, imitiranje (miming), imitacija (emulation, imitation). (various references)

Spanish

quitarse (absent onself, come out, depart, dismiss, doff, draw off, get off, go away, leave, lift, pull off, put off, raise, shed, shuffle off, skin, slip off, take away, throw, throw off, unseat, wash off, wear off). (various references)

Swedish

ta bort (delete, phase, remove, take away), ta av (doff), stryka från, satsa (Gage, gamble, invest, punt, put, run, stake), sats (batch, clause, dose, feed, jism, movement, proposition, rate, run, sentence, set, theorem, thesis, type), hoppställning, hämta (derive, draw, extract, fetch, go for, pick up, tap), dra in (call in, discontinue, draw in, embroil, implicate, indent, instal, install, involve, retire, retract), avlägsna (eliminate, excise, oust, remove, strike). (various references)

Turkish

taklit (affectation, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, echo, fake, false, gold brick, hit off, imitated, imitation, imitative, impression, mimesis, mimic, mimicry, mock, mockery, pinchbeck, repetition, reproduction, sham, simulacrum, simulated, simulation, snide), taklidini yapmak (fudge, imitate, mimic, parody, simulate), inmek (alight, climb down, come down, decrease, descend, dismount, ease off, fall, fall away, get off, go down, light, sink, step down, step off, step out, subside into), öldürmek (assassinate, bump off, carry off, croak, cut down, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in, do one's job for one, drop, erase, exterminate, get, get rid of, give smb. his quietus, ice, kill, kill off, knock off, knock out, liquidate, make away with, murder, off, put away, put down, put to death, rub out, send to glory, shoot, shoot dead, slay, take smb.'s life, waste, wipe out, zap), alıp götürmek (carry away, come for, lead away, pick off, take away, walk away with), ameliyatla almak, atlama (crossover, dive, hop, jump, jumping, leap, omission, skip, skipping, spring, vault, vaulting), başlangıç (approach, beginning, big bang, commencement, commencing, cradle, dawn, departure, doorway, early, elementary, exordium, first, go off, inception, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, introduction, lead off, morning, off, onset, origin, outset, preamble, preliminary, prelude, prime, proem, prolog, prologue, push off, setout, start, starting, toe-hold), götürmek (bear, bear away, carry, carry away, conduce, get, guide, lead, lead on, put across, remove, take, take away, usher, whip off), hareket etmek (act, behave, budge, comport oneslf, deport oneself, get under weigh, move, move off, play, pull, pull away from the kerb, start, waggle), havalanma (aeration, blastoff, lift off, ventilation), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak), indirmek (bash, bring down, cast down, clip, clout, clump, cut, degrade, dismount, down, draw down, drop off, dump, land, lay low, let down, lift down, lower, plant, put down, reduce, relegate, send down, set down, strike, take down, take from, unlade), yola çıkmak (be off, depart, fare, get under weigh, leave, set forth, set off, set out, start, start off, take the road), kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise), kalkış (departure, lift off), kalkmak (arise, get a hard on, get up, have a hard on, leave, lift, lift off, pull, pull away, pull away from the kerb, rise, stand on, stand up, stand upon, start, straighten, straighten up), karikatür (caricature, cartoon, travesty), sıçrama (bounce, bouncing, bound, caper, capriole, gambol, hop, jump, jumping, leap, rush, saltation, skip, skipping, splash, spring, springing, start, vault, vaulting), sıçramak (bounce, bound, buck, capriole, cavort, gambol, hop, jerk, jink, jump, leap, leap up, skip, skitter, spatter, splash, splatter, splutter, spring, sputter, squirt, start up, vault), start (sendoff, start), havalanmak (blast off, fly, lift, rise). (various references)

Turkmen 

зykyrynmak (strip), зykarmak (pull at, remove, take out). (various references)

Ukrainian

усувати (abolish, brush aside, castigate, depose, dethrone, displace, eliminate, obviate, preclude, put away, smooth, smooth away, vanish), карикатура (caricature, cartoon), виводити (deduce, take out, withdraw), недолік (blemish, defect, deficiency, deficit, dereliction, disadvantage, drawback, failing, imperfection, infirmity, lapse, minus, negative, objection, out, preterition, shortcoming, vice, wrinkle), наслідування (copyism, echo, emulation, imitation, mimicry, repetition), знімати (bare, depose, dismantle, dismount, doff, draw off, get off, skim, take down, uncover), знищувати (abolish, annihilate, annul, blast, consume, crush, delete, demolish, efface, exterminate, extinguish, kill, kill off, neutralize, nullify, obliterate, outroot, overthrow, overturn, pull up, quell, root out, root up, rub out, scotch, sweep away, torpedo, wear off, wither), зліт (blast off, launching, levitation, start), брати початок (derive, originate, run back, spring). (various references)

Welsh

tynnu (abstract, attract, draw, pull, remove). (various references)

Zulu

-khumula (put off). (various references)

deponam, depone, deponebamus, deponendum, deponens, deponent, deponentes, deponere, deponerent, deponeretur, deponet, deponite, deposita, depositis, depositoque, depositos, depositum, depositumque, deposuerant, deposuerunt, deposuisti, deposuit, discoperi, discoperiens, discoperies, discoperiet, discopertis, discoperto, discoperuerunt, discoperui, discoperuisti, discoperuit, exue, exuent, exuentes, exuerunt, exui, exuit, exuite, exuitur, exutum. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: takeoff.

-3 letters: fake, fate, feat, feta, keto, take, teak, teff, toea, toff, toke.

-4 letters: aff, aft, ate, eat, eff, eft, eta, fat, fet, foe, kae, kaf, kat, kea, kef, koa, oaf, oak, oat, off, oft, oka, oke, tae, tao, tea, toe.

-5 letters: ae, at, ef, et, fa, ka, oe, of, ta, to.

+1 letter: takeoffs.