takeoff
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takeoff (countable and uncountable, plural takeoffs)
- A launch or ascent into the air or into flight, such as of an aircraft, rocket, bird, high-jumper etc.
- Coordinate term: landing
- The flight was smooth, but the takeoff was a little rough.
- That high-jumper's takeoff needs some work.
- The mute swan, being one of the world's heaviest flying birds, can have a laborious takeoff.
- A parody or lampoon of someone or something.
- Weird Al's song "Lasagna" is a takeoff on the popular song "La Bamba".
- 1897, Edward Bellamy, “ch. 23”, in Equality:
- I came across a little pamphlet of the period, yellow and almost undecipherable, which, on examination, I found to be a rather amusing skit or satirical take-off on the profit system.
- 1981 February 7, Beth Hodges, Michelle Cliff, “An Interview With Michelle Cliff”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 8:
- I had originally titled it, On Claiming An Identity They Taught Me To Despise. I said that having been a Renaissance historian, I was doing a take-off of the Latin tracts—"On This," "On That," "On the Beauty of Women."
- A quantification, especially of building materials.
- I'll give you an estimate after I do the quantity takeoffs for the trusses and structural steel.
- (printing, UK, historical) The removal of sheets from the press.
- The spot from which one takes off; specifically, the place from which a jumper rises in leaping.
- Encyclopaedia of Sport
- The take-off should be selected with great care, and a pit of large dimensions provided on the landing side.
- Encyclopaedia of Sport
- (surfing) The initial movement a surfer makes to start riding a wave.
- 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
- Steamer Lane, home of the world's latest takeoff.
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