takeoff
/tˈeɪkˌɔf/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A launch or ascent into the air or into flight, such as of an aircraft, rocket, bird, high-jumper etc.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The flight was smooth, but the takeoff was a little rough."
- "That high-jumper's takeoff needs some work."
- "The mute swan, being one of the world's heaviest flying birds, can have a laborious takeoff."
- "Weird Al's song "Lasagna" is a takeoff on the popular song "La Bamba"."
- "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."
- "I had originally titled it, On Claiming An Identity They Taught Me To Despise. I said that having been a Renaissance historian, I was doing a take-off of the Latin tracts—"On This," "On That," "On the Beauty of Women.""
Etymology
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- British usage