0 If an aircraft, bird, or insect takes off, it leaves the ground and begins to fly:
The plane took off at 8.30 a.m.
1 to suddenly start to be successful or popular:
2 to suddenly leave somewhere, usually without telling anyone that you are going:
3 the moment when an aircraft leaves the ground and begins to fly:
4 a piece of acting or writing, etc. that copies the way a particular person speaks or behaves, or the way something is done, usually to entertain other people:
At surgery, the aneurysm was found to extend from the anterior wall of the pulmonary trunk to the take-off of the left pulmonary artery.
Local production, regional distribution and national interconnection became simultaneously the components of energy take-off.
This actuator (servomotor with gear reducers) rotated the leg to the desired angle at touchdown and take-off events.
Slowly some kind of i consensus between scientists and the military began to emerge, which made possible a modest but steady "take-off" toward nuclear development.
The second is the result that initially identical economies might experience take-off at very different times.
Any explanation of mechanisation must stress the importance of the introduction, in 1930, of the small combine-harvester operated by power take-off from an all-purpose tractor.
What is a more visible turning point in terms of an economic developmental take-off stage?
Common nouns of this type are blackout, break-up, getaway, get-together, hold-up, mix-up, sit-in, and take-off.
