takeoff

See also: take-off and take off

English

Alternative forms

• take-off

Etymology

Deverbal from take off.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

takeoff (countable and uncountable, plural 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.

Synonyms

• liftoff

Hyponyms

(start of a flight):

• rejected takeoff
• rolling takeoff

Derived terms

• power takeoff
• PTO
• T/O
• TO
• TOGA

 

Translations

start of flight

• Arabic: إِقْلَاع (ar) m (ʔiqlāʕ)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: вы́лет m (výljet), узлёт m (uzljót)
• Bulgarian: изли́тане (bg) n (izlítane)
• Catalan: enlairament (ca) m, envol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 起飛／起飞 (zh) (qǐfēi)

• Czech: vzlet (cs) m
• Danish: afgang (da) c, start (da) c
• Dutch: opstijgen (nl) n
• Finnish: lähtö (fi), nousu (fi)
• French: décollage (fr) m
• Galician: engalaxe (gl) f
• German: Abflug (de) m, Start (de) m
• Greek: απογείωση (el) f (apogeíosi)
• Hungarian: felszállás (hu)
• Icelandic: flugtak (is) n
• Italian: decollo (it) m
• Japanese: 離陸 (ja) (りりく, ririku)
• Korean: 이륙(離陸) (ko) (iryuk), 리륙(離陸) (riryuk) (North Korea)
• Macedonian: полет m (polet), полетување n (poletuvanje)
• Polish: start (pl) m, wzlot (pl) m
• Portuguese: decolagem (pt) f (Brazil), descolagem (pt) f (Portugal)
• Romanian: decolare (ro) f
• Russian: вы́лет (ru) m (výlet), взлёт (ru) m (vzljot) (liftoff)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у́злет m

  Roman: úzlet (sh) m

• Slovak: vzlet m
• Slovene: vzlet (sl) m
• Spanish: despegue (es) m
• Turkish: kalkış (tr)
• Ukrainian: ви́літ m (výlit), зліт (zlit)

parody

• Bulgarian: паро́дия (bg) f (paródija), карикату́ра (bg) f (karikatúra)
• Finnish: irvailu (fi), parodia (fi)
• Galician: parodia (gl) f, ludibrio (gl) m, mofa f
• Russian: паро́дия (ru) f (paródija), подража́ние (ru) n (podražánije), карикату́ра (ru) f (karikatúra)
• Spanish: parodia (es) f
• Turkish: kalkış (tr)

See also

• take off

Anagrams

• offtake