take offとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

take off (三人称単数 現在形 takes off, 現在分詞 taking off, 過去形 took off, 過去分詞 taken off)

1. (transitive) To remove.

   He took off his shoes.

   The test grader takes off a point for every misspelled word.

   Tomorrow the doctor will take the cast off her arm.

   • 1980 Charlie's Angels (TV, season 4.23)

     Sounds nice. Has a certain ring to it. Take your shirt off.

   • 1995, Richard Rhodes, quoting Curtis LeMay, “Scorpions in a Bottle”, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb‎^[1], New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 574:

     The Russian bear has always been eager to stick his paw in Latin American waters. Now we've got him in a trap, let's take his leg off right up to his testicles. On second thought, let's take off his testicles, too.

2. (transitive) To imitate somebody, often in a satirical manner.
   • 1986, John Le Carré, A Perfect Spy, Sceptre, published 2011, page 365:

     Pym would take him off perfectly, thought Brotherhood. Pym would catch that accent to a tee.

4. (intransitive, of an aircraft または spacecraft) To leave the ground and begin flight; to ascend into the air.

   The plane has been cleared to take off from runway 3.

5. (intransitive) To become successful, to flourish.

   The business has really taken off this year and has made quite a profit.

   • 2007 July 12, The Guardian, A welcome invasion.

     The message is now the medium – that is powerful and means products can take off practically all by themselves.

6. (intransitive) To depart.

   I'm going to take off now.

   Take off, loser!

   • 2020, Armando Lazzari, Dinner with the Mafia:

     Ben threw twenty bucks on the table, grabbed the map and took off after the thief, following Susan who had run off before him.

7. (transitive) To quantify.

   I'll take off the concrete and steel for this construction project.

8. (transitive, intransitive) To absent oneself from (work または other responsibility), especially with permission.

   If you take off for Thanksgiving you must work Christmas and vice versa.

   He decided to let his mother take a night off from cooking, so he took her and his siblings out to dinner.

9. (intransitive, slang, dated) To take drugs; to inject drugs.
10. (transitive, slang, dated) To steal (something) or rob (someone).
11. (transitive, archaic) To swallow.

    to take off a glass of wine

同意語

• (remove clothing): doff
• (imitate): ape, imitate, impersonate, mimic
• (become successful): bloom, blossom, flourish, grow, thrive
• (depart): See depart

反意語

• (remove): don (applies to clothing only), put on
• (ascend): land (also applies to spacecraft かつ some other vessels)
• (begin flight): land, touch down

関連する語

• takeoff (または take-off)
• take one's hat off to

参考

• to lift off

名詞

take off (複数形 take offs)

1. Alternative form of takeoff
   • 1986, Ira Katznelson, Aristide R. Zolberg, Working-class Formation, page 45:

     France never experienced a "take off" of the sort hypothesized by W. W. Rostow — a sudden spurt of output that begins sustained industrial growth.

   • 2003, Calin M. Popescu, Kan Phaobunjong, Nuntapong Ovararin, Estimating Building Costs, page 354:

     Therefore, the only sure way to estimate the quantity of lumber required for any particular job is to do a take off of each piece of lumber needed for the work.

   • 2003, N. A. Cumpsty, Jet Propulsion:

     This is virtually equal to the minimum value shown above to be necessary in the case of a total loss in thrust from one of the four engines at take off.

アナグラム

• offtake

アナグラム

• offtake

語源

From the verb phrase take off.

発音

名詞

takeoff (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 takeoffs)

1. The rising or ascent of an aircraft or rocket into flight.

   The flight was smooth, but the takeoff was a little rough.

   Coordinate term: landing

2. A parody or lampoon of someone or something.

   Weird Al's song "Lasagna" is a takeoff on the popular song "La Bamba".

   • 1897, Edward Bellamy, “ch. 23”, in Equality:

     I came across a little pamphlet of the period, yellow and almost undecipherable, which, on examination, I found to be a rather amusing skit or satirical take-off on the profit system.

3. A quantification, especially of building materials.

   I'll give you an estimate after I do the quantity takeoffs for the trusses and structural steel.

4. (printing, UK, historical) The removal of sheets from the press.
5. The spot from which one takes off; specifically, the place from which a jumper rises in leaping.
   • Encyclopaedia of Sport

     The take-off should be selected with great care, and a pit of large dimensions provided on the landing side.

同意語

• liftoff

下位語

(start of a flight):

• rejected takeoff
• rolling takeoff

派生語

• TO, T/O
• TOGA

参考

• take off

アナグラム

• offtake