The off

Definition

off /ɒf; US ↄ:f / adj ၁။ (က) ~ (with sb) ( infml esp Brit ) (ခပ္) စိမ္းစိမ္း။ (ဗန္း) မၾကည္ [ေသာ]။ She sounded rather off on the phone. ❍ He was a bit off with me this morning. (ခ) လက္မခံႏိုင္ [ေသာ]။ လြန္လြန္း[ေသာ]။ They want to cut our expenses—that's a bit off, isn’t it? (ဂ) မက်န္းမာ [ေသာ]။ ေနမေကာင္း[ေသာ]။ You look a bit off this morning, Mary. ၂။ ပုပ္ [ေသာ]။ သိုး [ေသာ]။ This fish has gone/is off. ❍ The milk smells/tastes decidedly off. ၃။ = OFFSIDE 2 adv part ၁။ (က) (ခရီးကြာလွမ္းမႈျပေသာစကား)။ The town is still five miles off. ❍ He ran off with the money. ❍ Sarah's off in India somewhere. ❍ Be off/Off with you! (ie Go away!) (ခ) (အခ်ိန္ကြာလွမ္းမႈျပေသာစကား)။ Summer is not so far off. ၂။ (ဖယ္ရွားျခင္း၊ ခြၽတ္ျခင္း၊ ဖြင့္ျခင္း စသည္ ျပေသာစကား)။ He's had his beard shaved off. ❍ take one's coat/tie off ❍ Don't leave the toothpaste with the top off. Compare ON adv part ၃ ၃။ (ထြက္ျခင္း၊ သြားျခင္းကို ျပေသာစကား)။ She's off to Hong Kong tomorrow. ❍ I must be off soon. ❍ They're off (ie The race has begun). ၄။ ( infml ) (ဖ်က္သိမ္းျခင္းျပေသာ စကား)။ The wedding/engagement is off. ❍ The miners' strike is off. Compare ON adv part ၆ ၅။ (က) ပ်က္လ်က္ ျပတ္လ်က္ (ရိွသည္)။ The water/gas/electricity is off. (ခ) ပိတ္ (ထား)သည္။ The TV/radio/light is off. ❍ Make sure the central heating is off. Compare ON adv part ၄ ၆။ ( esp Brit ) (…ဟင္း) မရႏိုင္ (ျဖစ္သည္)။ The fish with almonds is off today. ၇။ ခြင့္(ယူသည္၊ ယူမည္)။ I think I'll take the afternoon off (ie not work this afternoon). ❍ She's off today. ❍ I've got three days off next week. ၈။ ေလွ်ာ့ (ေပးသည္)။ shoes with £ 5 off ❍ All shirts have 10% off. ၉။ ဇာတ္ခံုေနာက္ဘက္မွ (သို႔) ေဘးဘက္မွ။ noises/voices off. n [sing] ၁။ the off တာထြက္။ They're ready for the off. ၂။ the off (ခရစ္ကက္တြင္) ႐ိုက္လွည့္က်သူ မ်က္ႏွာမူရာ ကြင္းတစ္ျခမ္း။ play the ball to the off ❍ the off stump. Compare LEG ၆ prep ၁။ မွ။ က။ fall off a ladder/tree/horse/wall ❍ The rain ran off the roof. ❍ The ball rolled off the table. ❍ Keep off the grass. ❍ Cut another slice off the loaf. ❍ Take a packet off the shelf. ❍ They were only 100 metres off the summit when the accident happened. ❍ ( fig ) We're getting right off the subject. ❍ Scientists are still a long way off (finding) a cure. ၂။ မွ (ခြဲထြက္ေသာ)။ မွ (ထုတ္ထားေသာ)။ a narrow lane off the main road ❍ a bathroom off the main bedroom. ၃။ မလွမ္းမကမ္းတြင္။ a big house off the main street ❍ an island off the coast of Cornwall ❍ The ship sank off Cape Horn. ၄။ ( infml ) ျဖတ္လ်က္၊ ျပတ္လ်က္။ I'm off (ie not drinking) alcohol for a week. ❍ He's finally off drugs (ie He no longer takes them). ❏ be off for sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) … က်န္ေသးသည္။ …ရိွ ေသးသည္။ How are we off for coffee? (ie How much have we got?) Compare WELL OFF FOR STH, (BE) BADLY OFF FOR STH ❏ off and on/on and off [ IDM ] ျပတ္ေတာင္း ျပတ္ေတာင္း။ တစ္ခါတစ္ခါ။ It rained on and off all day. ❏ off chance n [sing] …လို …ျငား။ There is still an off chance that the weather will improve. ❍ He came on the off chance of finding me at home. ❏ off of prep ( sl esp US ) = OFF prep off- /ɒf; US ↄ:f / pref (ကြာေသာ၊ လွမ္းေသာ၊ ေဝးေသာ၊ ခ်ေသာ အနက္တို႔ျဖင့္ ႀကိယာ စသည္ ပုဒ္ဖြဲ႕ရာတြင္ သံုးသည့္ ေရွ႕ဆက္)။ off-stage ❍ off-peak ❍ offshore ❍ offload.

Examples

1. With only $150 in his pocket
2. he set off for New Mexico.
3. I’d never let an 11-year-old kid go off on his own.
4. [be off] : If you don’t need me any more
5. I’ll be off.
6. [be off to] : I’m off to Scotland next Tuesday.
7. [get off] : Ask the driver to stop the bus so we can get off.
8. They didn’t see each other till they got off the plane.
9. The wind blew a flowerpot off the balcony.
10. Hold on tight so you don’t slip off.
11. I had to scrape the dirt off the walls.
12. She tried to push the dog off her but it kept jumping up.
13. I was so surprised I nearly fell off my chair.
14. [keep/stay off] : There was a sign saying ‘Keep off the grass’.
15. They cut a branch off the tree.
16. Cindy was playing with the doll when its leg fell off.
17. The restaurant is just off the main road.
18. You’ll find a bathroom just off the master bedroom.
19. Two miles off the coast
20. we sailed right into the storm.
21. The lights were off in the big house.
22. I saw that all the machines were switched off.
23. We told the children to take off their wet clothes.
24. She kicked off her shoes and settled down on the sofa.
25. I’m considering taking quite a bit of time off work.
26. We’re planning a trip to the zoo on my day off.
27. I took two weeks off in August.
28. [be off] : She’s off sick today.
29. We were told to keep off the subject of babies.
30. Sorry
31. but the meeting’s off.
32. Tonight’s game has been called off because of bad weather.
33. I’ve been off alcohol now for three weeks.
34. He went to a treatment centre where he was gradually weaned off heroin.
35. I’m off sweet things at the moment.
36. [go off something] : I’ve gone off watching daytime talk shows.
37. He seems to have gone right off his food.
38. There’s now 30% off all swimsuits.
39. Shares fell almost 10%
40. wiping $400 million off the company’s value.
41. [take something off something] : They agreed to take £3 off the price.
42. Christmas is only three weeks off.
43. [a long time off] : Retirement is still a long time off.
44. Their farm is only twenty miles off.
45. [a long way off] : The nearest seaside resort is a long way off.
46. This cream is slightly off.
47. [go off] : This meat smells as if it’s gone off.
48. [be off] : I’m sorry
49. sir
50. the roast lamb is off.
51. Let’s see if we can get some money off my Dad.
52. You could borrow a ladder off the people next door.
53. I got your phone number off the members’ list.
54. Most modern cars run off unleaded petrol.
55. People were warned to stay off the streets.
56. Something about the way he talked was a little off.
57. The local farmers all looked pretty badly off.
58. She comes from a very well-off family.
59. Most of the colleges are pretty well off for computers.
60. The kids are quite badly off for clothes.
61. [how are you off for something?] : How are you off for money?
62. I’m starting to think I’d be better off without him.
63. You couldn’t be any worse off than you are now.