Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Takeoff \Take"off`\, Take-off \Take"-off`\, n.
An imitation, especially in the way of caricature; -- used with of or on; as, the comedian did a hilarious takeoff on the president.
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The spot at which one takes off; specif., the place from which a jumper rises in leaping.
The take-off should be selected with great care, and a pit of large dimensions provided on the landing side.
--Encyc. of Sport. the beginning of a leap from a surface or a flight into the air, especially the process or event of an airplane leaving the ground and beginning its flight; as, the takeoff of flight CA123 was scheduled for 3:00 PM.
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n. (alternative form of takeoff English)
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"Take-off" is the debut single released by the Japanese band Vivid. A document music video was made for the title song and is available on the limited B CD+DVD edition of their major debut (and fifth overall) single ""Yume": Mugen no Kanata" along with a live performance of the title track taped at Shibuya-AX on August 8, 2010. The single reached number 3 on the indies Oricon weekly charts and number 63 on the overall chart where it charted for a week. It has sold 1,319 copies.
Usage examples of "take-off".
The take-off pressed the Duke and Kynes deep into their seats, compressed the people in the rear.
The seaplane ceased backing, remained loggy and motionless for a moment, then moved forward, swinging to the left and lining out into the wind for the take-off.
Of the six Wellingtons which had been sent each night to lay mines in the River Elbe while the bombers were raiding Hamburg, one had crashed on take-off and one was missing after crashing in the sea, and two Fighter Command Mosquitoes had been lost in Intruder operations which were in direct support to the Hamburg raids.
No witnesses had seen the autogiro prior to its take-off from the ruins of the mansion.
Friday morning she had laughed, rung the Biarritz-Anglet airfield with a flight plan for take-off at noon, then gone out into the quiet grounds of the big house to make excuses to her hostess, Consuela, who was watching a hard-fought game between Willie Garvin and her husband, Etienne, in the shadow thrown by the towering wall of the pelota court.
For the photophone went abruptly dark, and the vessel lurched spaceward in a hurried take-off.
They set to work clearing debris from the playa while I got the plane into position for take-off just as I had done last time--same deal: cut over the water, and then up and out.
I reckoned it was going to take me another century or two to become hardened to the mad bull take-offs and landings of these Flettner craft.
Automatically, Renark prepared himself for take-off, thanked the metazoa and pressed the drive control.
As it is a considerable distance from here to the present front we use two take-off airfields, one at Barwenkowo for the front on the Donetz at Isjum, the other at Stalino for missions on the Mius front.
NSA analysts could thus predict B-52 mission launchings at least two hours prior to take-off.
Only then did Craig realize that Sally-Anne had been far-seeing enough to assess the danger and urgency, and that she had landed with the wind behind her, accepting the hazard of the higher approach speed and the longer roll-out in order to be able immediately to turn back into the wind for ber take-off which would be with a full load, and under attack from the paras. On the cab, Tungata was firing up into the sky, measured controlled bursts, hoping more to intimidate the descending paras than to inflict casualties.
Section Officer Robertson covertly all through the meal, timing the progress of his lunch to synchronise with hers while talking to Humphries about accelerated take-offs.
He is like a man who makes a wonderful take-off from the ground, cleaves the air like a swallow, and after all comes down helplessly in a desert waste, a nothing.
You bring the stuff here, load it aboard the helicopter and make a fast take-off for the continent: it was the only way, you knew the entire area would be cordoned off and that there would be no other way to get the stuff out.