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Definition: TO SET OFF |
TO SET OFF1. (a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of an estate. (b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish. They . . . set off the worst faces with the best airs. --Addison. (c) To give a flattering description of. |
Crosswords: TO SET OFF |
| English words defined with "TO SET OFF": Mangonize ♦ To set off against, To set out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TO SET OFF": oil-well-electrical-wall-sampling-device operator ♦ SAMPLE-TAKER OPERATOR, shot firer, shot lighter. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Whatever the trigger is for IPF, it appears to set off a series of events in which the inflammation and immune activity in the lungs--and, eventually, the fibrosis processes, too--become uncontrollable. (references) | |
Economic History | Vietnam | Carrying Forward Losses: All foreign-invested businesses and foreign parties to BCC's are allowed to carry forward losses to set off against profits in the ensuing five years (for tax purposes). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "TO SET OFF": To set off against. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "TO SET OFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 襯托 , 出發 (to start out). (various references) | ||||
German | anfangen (begin, commence, fall, launch forth, launch out, move in, open, set about, start, start off, start out, start up, to begin, to begin (began, to start). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | kihangsúlyoz (emphasize, highlight, punctuate, stress, to accentuate, to bring out, to emphasize, to enhance, to heighten, to highlight, to punctuate, to underline, underscore), felrobbant (blow up, detonate, exploded, to bump, to detonate, to explode, to touch off), ellensúlyoz (compensate, countervail, counterweigh, equiponderate, offset, set off, to correct, to counteract, to equilibrate, to offset), útnak indul (hit the pike, start off, to get under headway, to get under weigh, to set forth, to set off on a journey, to set out, to set sail, to start off on a journey, to start on one's journey, to start on one's way), érvényre juttat (enforce, to enforce). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay etsay offay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-f-o-o-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: offset, oftest, setoff. | |
-3 letters: foots, ottos, teffs, toffs, tofts, toots, totes. | |
-4 letters: effs, efts, fets, foes, foot, offs, oots, otto, sett, soft, soot, stet, teff, test, tets, toes, toff, toft, toot, tost, tote, tots. | |
-5 letters: eff, efs, eft, fet, foe, oes, off, oft, oot, ose, set, sot, tet, toe, too, tot. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-f-o-o-s-t-t" | |
+5 letters: afforestation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 53 45 54 4F 46 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01000101 01010100 00100000 01001111 01000110 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   S E T   O F F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0053 0045 0054 004F 0046 0046 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)544925339542494040 |
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