Off vs. Of
Offadverb
In a direction away from the speaker or object.
Offadverb
Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence.
Offadverb
So as to be removed or separated.
Offadjective
Inoperative, disabled.
Offadjective
Rancid, rotten.
Offadjective
(cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
Offadjective
Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
Offadjective
Inappropriate; untoward.
Offadjective
Circumstanced (as in well off, better off, poorly off).
Offadjective
Started on the way.
Offadjective
Far; off to the side.
Offadjective
Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
Offadjective
(in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
Offadjective
Presently unavailable.
Offadjective
Right-hand in relation to the side of a horse or a vehicle.
Offpreposition
Used to indicate movement away from a position on
Offpreposition
(colloquial) Out of the possession of.
Offpreposition
Away from or not on.
Offpreposition
Disconnected or subtracted from.
Offpreposition
Distant from.
Offpreposition
No longer wanting or taking.
Offpreposition
Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineeringEngineering.
Offverb
To kill.
Offverb
To switch off.
Offnoun
(usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.
Offadverb
In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:
Offadverb
Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off.
Offadverb
Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.
Offadverb
Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
Offadverb
Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.
Offadverb
Denoting opposition or negation.
Offinterjection
Away; begone; - a command to depart.
Offpreposition
Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore.
Offadjective
On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse or ox; the off leg.
Offadjective
Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics.
Offadjective
Designating a time when one's performance is below normal; as, he had an off day.
Offnoun
The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.
Offadjective
not in operation or operational;
Offadjective
below a satisfactory level;
Offadjective
(of events) no longer planned or scheduled;
Offadjective
in an unpalatable state;
Offadjective
not performing or scheduled for duties;
Offadverb
from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete);
Offadverb
at a distance in space or time;
Offadverb
no longer on or in contact or attached;
Offadverb
away from the place in question; to or at a distance
Offadverb
away from the main route
Offadverb
so as to be removed or separated
Offadverb
absent; away from work
Offadverb
starting a journey or race; leaving
Offadverb
so as to bring to an end or be discontinued
Offadverb
cancelled
Offadverb
(of an item on a menu) temporarily unavailable
Offadverb
(of an electrical appliance or power supply) not functioning or so as to cease to function
Offadverb
having access to or possession of material goods or wealth to the extent specified
Offadverb
(with preceding numeral) denoting a quantity produced at one time.
Offpreposition
moving away and often down from
Offpreposition
situated or leading in a direction away from (a main route or intersection)
Offpreposition
out at sea from (a place on the coast)
Offpreposition
so as to be removed or separated from
Offpreposition
absent from
Offpreposition
abstaining from
Offpreposition
having a temporary dislike of
Offadjective
characterized by performing or feeling worse than usual; unsatisfactory or inadequate
Offadjective
unwell
Offadjective
(of food) no longer fresh
Offadjective
located on the side of a vehicle that is normally furthest from the kerb; offside.
Offadjective
annoying or unfair
Offadjective
unfriendly or hostile
Offnoun
the half of the field (as divided lengthways through the pitch) towards which the batsman's feet are pointed when standing to receive the ball.
Offnoun
the start of a race, journey, or experience
Offverb
leave
Offverb
kill; murder
Ofpreposition
Expressing distance or motion.
Ofpreposition
From (of distance, direction), "off".
Ofpreposition
Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
Ofpreposition
From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
Ofpreposition
Before (the hour); to.
Ofpreposition
Expressing separation.
Ofpreposition
Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.
Ofpreposition
Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.
Ofpreposition
(obsolete) Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.
Ofpreposition
Expressing origin.
Ofpreposition
Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.
Ofpreposition
Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.
Ofpreposition
(following an intransitive verb) Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
Ofpreposition
(following an adjective) Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.
Ofpreposition
Expressing agency.
Ofpreposition
(following a passive verb) Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).
Ofpreposition
Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).
Ofpreposition
(following an adjective) Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.
Ofpreposition
Expressing composition, substance.
Ofpreposition
(after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) Used to indicate the material or substance used.
Ofpreposition
(directly following a noun) Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.
Ofpreposition
Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.
Ofpreposition
Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.
Ofpreposition
Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; "which is also".
Ofpreposition
Introducing subject matter.
Ofpreposition
Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.
Ofpreposition
(following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.
Ofpreposition
(following an adjective) Introduces its subject matter.
Ofpreposition
Having partitive effect.
Ofpreposition
(following a number or other quantitive word) Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; "from among".
Ofpreposition
(following a noun) Indicates a given part.
Ofpreposition
Some, an amount of, one of.
Ofpreposition
Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).
Ofpreposition
Expressing possession.
Ofpreposition
Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
Ofpreposition
Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
Ofpreposition
Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)
Ofpreposition
Forming the "objective genitive".
Ofpreposition
Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.
Ofpreposition
Expressing qualities or characteristics.
Ofpreposition
Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier; in respect to, as regards.
Ofpreposition
Indicates a quality or characteristic; "characterized by".
Ofpreposition
Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.
Ofpreposition
Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.
Ofpreposition
Expressing a point in time.
Ofpreposition
During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
Ofpreposition
For (a given length of time).
Ofpreposition
(after a noun) Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.
Ofverb
(usually in modal perfect constructions) lang=en or ’ve, chiefly in depictions of colloquial speech.
Ofpreposition
In a general sense, from, or out from; proceeding from; belonging to; relating to; concerning; - used in a variety of applications; as:
Ofpreposition
Denoting that from which anything proceeds; indicating origin, source, descent, and the like; as, he is of a race of kings; he is of noble blood.
Ofpreposition
Denoting possession or ownership, or the relation of subject to attribute; as, the apartment of the consul: the power of the king; a man of courage; the gate of heaven.
Ofpreposition
Denoting the material of which anything is composed, or that which it contains; as, a throne of gold; a sword of steel; a wreath of mist; a cup of water.
Ofpreposition
Denoting part of an aggregate or whole; belonging to a number or quantity mentioned; out of; from amongst; as, of this little he had some to spare; some of the mines were unproductive; most of the company.
Ofpreposition
Denoting that by which a person or thing is actuated or impelled; also, the source of a purpose or action; due to; as, they went of their own will; no body can move of itself; he did it of necessity.
Ofpreposition
Denoting reference to a thing; about; concerning; relating to; as, to boast of one's achievements; they talked of many things.
Ofpreposition
Denoting nearness or distance, either in space or time; from; as, within a league of the town; within an hour of the appointed time.
Ofpreposition
Denoting identity or equivalence; - used with a name or appellation, and equivalent to the relation of apposition; as, the continent of America; the city of Rome; the Island of Cuba.
Ofpreposition
Denoting the agent, or person by whom, or thing by which, anything is, or is done; by.
Ofpreposition
Denoting relation to place or time; belonging to, or connected with; as, men of Athens; the people of the Middle Ages; in the days of Herod.
Ofpreposition
Denoting passage from one state to another; from.
Ofpreposition
During; in the course of.
Ofpreposition
expressing the relationship between a part and a whole.
Ofpreposition
with the word denoting the part functioning as the head of the phrase
Ofpreposition
after a number, quantifier, or partitive noun, with the word denoting the whole functioning as the head of the phrase
Ofpreposition
expressing the relationship between a scale or measure and a value
Ofpreposition
expressing an age
Ofpreposition
indicating an association between two entities, typically one of belonging, in which the first is the head of the phrase and the second is something associated with it
Ofpreposition
expressing the relationship between an author, artist, or composer and their works collectively
Ofpreposition
expressing the relationship between a direction and a point of reference
Ofpreposition
expressing the relationship between a general category or type and the thing being specified which belongs to such a category
Ofpreposition
following a noun derived from or related to a verb.
Ofpreposition
followed by a noun expressing the subject of the verb underlying the first noun
Ofpreposition
followed by a noun expressing the object of the verb underlying the first noun
Ofpreposition
where the head of the phrase is a predicative adjective
Ofpreposition
indicating the relationship between a verb and an indirect object.
Ofpreposition
with a verb expressing a mental state
Ofpreposition
expressing a cause
Ofpreposition
indicating the material or substance constituting something
Ofpreposition
expressing time in relation to the following hour
