English English Dictionary
- off in English:
1. 
off
He dozed off.
Tom continued reading the newspaper even though the burglar alarm had gone off.
First off, I'd like you to come with me to a department store sale.
It was not until I got off the bus that I realized I had left my umbrella.
Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.
I saw Tom wiping his fingerprints off the doorknob.
I can't turn the shower off. Could you check it for me?
Instead of laying off these workers, why don't we just cut their hours?
He made heaps of money by ripping off naive suckers.
With this talisman, you can ward off any and all evil spirits.
Antibodies fight off infections and viruses.
We'll allow a 5 percent discount off list prices.
I quit my job and moved so I could start off with a clean slate.
I heard she brushed him off, saying "Let's just be friends."
To my regret, my favorite TV show went off the air last month.
2. it paid
English word "off"(it paid) occurs in sets:
identity (2)3. spin
My head is spinning.
After dinner, we took a spin around town in my car.
Silkworms spin cocoons.
I drank too much and the ground seemed to spin under my feet.
Can you spin a basketball on your fingertip?
The room started to spin after I drank too much.
I learned how to spin wool from watching my grandmother.
I saw the room spin and then I fainted.
The skater performed a spectacular spin. Mars spins on its axis at approximately the same rate as Earth.
I hit something on the road, which sent the car into a spin. Suddenly, the plane went into a spin.
I felt dizzy and the whole world was spinning.
An example of fallacy is the idea that the sun spins around the earth.
I think I've drunk too much. It seems to me the world is spinning.
That popular television series is going to spin off two new shows in the fall.
I'm so busy these days it makes my head spin. I don't even have time to watch a video.
4. not at work
5. not operating or being used
6. away from a place or position
English word "off"(away from a place or position) occurs in sets:
2. Lesson: I still suffer nightmares from the day ...7. taste
Peaches taste sweet.
A good cook knows how to perfectly combine one taste with another.
The princess's taste for pleasures was expanding; and we thought only about how to sprinkle on them new seasonings, so as to give them more spice.
My wife gave birth to a child when we were very poor. While she was sleeping, I cooked rice and vegetables for several days and surprised her with the variety and taste of my cooking.
I don't mind since I'm used to it, but the first guy who thought about making a hearse with a golden roof on top of it, he must have had quite bad taste.
Many people, if not most, look on literary taste as an elegant accomplishment.
The official designs of the Government, especially its designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage, may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors of national taste.
You have expensive taste! the shopkeeper exclaimed. "Are you sure you don't want to look through our cheaper variants first?"
Perhaps the robin's got a taste for the finer things in life and has become extravagant.
A litany of taste tests enabled Hugo to distinguish between a variety of pastes.
The museums are full of objects which the most cultivated taste of a period considered beautiful, but which seem to us now worthless.
Our eyes, our ears, our sense of smell, our taste create as many truths as there are men on earth.
tłumaczenie przykładu ze słówkiem I taste apple
Semi-finished products contain large amounts of chemicals, which aims to improve the taste, smell and appearance of the food and salt and preservatives.
Is there some gustatory or culinary analog of a novel or film? In other words, can you eat or taste a complete, riveting story the way you can watch or read one?
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