| VERB | motion | take off, depart, part, start, start out, set forth, set off, set out | leave |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | take off | take away or remove | |
| motion | take off, lift off | depart from the ground | |
| social | take off, take time off | take time off from work | |
| creation | take off | mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner | |
| body | take off | remove clothes | |
| motion | take off, get off the ground | get started or set in motion, used figuratively | |
| contact | take off | prove fatal | |
| cognition | take off, subtract, deduct | make a subtraction |
| Meaning | Leave. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Model | These cars won't take off; The children take off to the playground | |
| Synonyms | depart, part, start, start out, set forth, set off, set out | |
| Narrower | blaze, blaze out | Move rapidly and as if blazing |
| roar off | Leave | |
| sally forth, sally out | Set out in a sudden, energetic or violent manner | |
| take off, lift off | depart from the ground | |
| Broader | leave, go forth, go away | go away from a place |
| Spanish | estrenar, iniciar, irse, originar, partir, separar | |
| Catalan | anar-se'n, estrenar, iniciar, marxar, originar, partir, sortir | |
| Nouns | takeoff | a departure |
| takeoff | the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne | |
| Meaning | take away or remove. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Narrower | declaw | Remove the claws from |
| dehorn | Take the horns off (an animal) | |
| undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel | Get undressed | |
| Broader | remove, take, take away, withdraw | Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
| Spanish | sacar | |
| Catalan | treure | |
| Meaning | depart from the ground. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
| Model | The airplane is sure to take off | |
| Synonym | lift off | |
| Broader | depart, part, start, start out, set forth, set off, set out, take off | Leave |
| Spanish | despegar, levantar vuelo | |
| Nouns | takeoff | the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne |
| Meaning | Take time off from work; stop working temporarily. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonym | take time off | |
| Broader | interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off | make a break / break in |
| Meaning | mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Broader | imitate, copy, simulate | Reproduce someone's behavior or looks |
| Nouns | takeoff | humorous or satirical mimicry |
| takeoff | a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | |
| Meaning | Remove clothes. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Model | They take off the cape | |
| Example | "take off your shirt--it's very hot in here" | |
| Narrower | doff | Remove |
| peel off | Take off, as with some difficulty | |
| slip off | Take off with ease or speed | |
| uncloak | Remove a cloak from | |
| Broader | undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down, disrobe, peel | Get undressed |
| Meaning | get started or set in motion, used figuratively. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Synonym | get off the ground | |
| Broader | start, go, get going | Begin or set in motion |
| Spanish | despegar | |
| Meaning | prove fatal. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Broader | kill | Cause to die |
| Spanish | ser fatal | |
| Meaning | make a subtraction. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | subtract, deduct | |
| Category | arithmetic | The branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations |
| Narrower | carry back | Deduct a loss or an unused credit from taxable income for a prior period |
| Broader | calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure | make a mathematical calculation or computation |
| See also | take | remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
| Opposite | add, add together | make an addition by combining numbers |
| Spanish | deducir, descontar, desgravar, extraer, quitar, restar, substraer, sustraer | |
| Catalan | desgravar, extraure, extreure, restar, sostraure, sostreure, treure | |
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