English-French translations for off

• éteint
  Faisons-le, si possible, avec nos téléphones portables éteints. Let us do so, if possible, with our mobile phones switched off.
  Enfin, il ne faut pas que nous nous retrouvions dans une situation du genre "la dernière personne à quitter l'île éteint la lumière". Finally, it must not be a case of the last person off the island turning the lights off.
  Je ne crois pas qu’il appartienne à la Commission d’engager des millions d’inspecteurs pour vérifier si tout le monde a éteint ses lumières! I do not believe that it is the role of the Commission to have millions of inspectors checking that everyone has switched off their lights!
• fermé
  La vanne a été fermée en Russie. The valve has been turned off in Russia.
  L'Europe n'est certainement pas fermée au commerce extérieur. Europe is certainly not closed off to external trade.
  Telle est la situation actuellement : les territoires sont fermés. This is what is happening at the moment - the territories are effectively closed off.
• au large de
  Pêche au large de l'Angola et de la Guinée Fishing off the coasts of Angola and Guinea
  Il s'agit d'une île au large de la côte ouest européenne. It is an island off the west coast of Europe.
  Le naufrage du au large des côtes flamandes en a été un exemple effrayant. The off the Flemish coast was a chilling example of this.
• en dehors de
  Alors criez-lui: «Cela poussera mon camion en dehors de la route!» ou, pour faire bref, «Camion dehors!». So shout to him and say: ‘This will take my truck off the road!’ or, in short, ‘Truck off!’.
  On a aussi assisté à un développement énorme du travail à temps partiel et de l’emploi en dehors de l’exploitation agricole. There has also been huge growth in part-time farming and off-farm employment.
  Mais il ne faut pas attendre de ce type de recherche des retombées importantes en termes d'emploi en dehors des centres de recherche eux-mêmes. But in this type of work, no major spin-offs in the employment sphere can be expected outside the research centres.
• éteindre
  Demander aux enfants de tout éteindre ne peut être la solution. Telling children to turn things off is just not the solution.
  Nous n’avons donc que le choix d’allumer la télévision ou de l’éteindre. We have no option but to accept what they provide or switch off.
  Nous pourrions lutter contre le changement climatique sans devoir éteindre la lumière. We could combat climate change without having to turn off the lights.
• faux
  Ce qui s'est passé est tout à fait inacceptable et ce sont de faux prétextes qui nous ont été avancés. What has happened is totally unacceptable and we have been fobbed off with spurious pretexts.
  On entend souvent des déclarations publiques selon lesquelles l'Europe fermerait ses marchés agricoles, ce qui est absolument faux. The frequent claims made in public that Europe is closing itself off in the agricultural markets are quite wrong.
  - Monsieur, je vous retire la parole parce que votre argument de départ est faux, en effet il ne s’agit pas d’un texte de nature législative. – Mr Batten, I must cut you off there, because you are starting from a false premise: this is not a text of a legislative nature.
• hors de
• loin
  Je crains que ce jour soit encore loin. I am afraid that day is a long way off.
  La phase législative est encore loin. The legislative phase is a long way off.
  Le big brother de George Orwell n'est pas loin. George Orwell's Big Brother is not far off!

Definition of off

• In a direction away from the speaker or object
• Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence
• So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated
• Inoperative, disabled
• Cancelled; not happening
• Rancid, rotten, gone bad
• Less than normal, in temperament or in result
• Inappropriate; untoward
• Circumstanced
• Started on the way
• Far; off to the side
• 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
• On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left
• In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman
• Not positioned upon; away from a position upon
• Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to
• Removed or subtracted from
• No longer wanting or taking
• Out of the possession of
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• To kill
• To switch off
• Beginning; starting point

Examples

• He drove off in a cloud of smoke
• Please switch off the light when you leave
• die off
• He bit off the end of the carrot
• Some branches were sawn off
• All the lights are off
• The partys off because the hostess is sick.
• This milk is off!
• sales are off this quarter
• I felt that his comments were a bit off.
• off to see the wizard
• And theyre off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose
• He took me down the corridor and into an off room
• the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse
• He took an off day for fishing. an off year in politics;the off season
• — Ill have the chicken please.
• — Sorry, chickens off today.
• The off front wheel came loose.
• Hes off the roof now
• I took it off the table
• Keep off the grass
• The phone is off the hook
• The coat fell off the peg
• He was thrown off the team for cheating
• Weve been off the grid for three days now
• Were off their radar
• Hes off the computer, but hes still on the phone
• His office is off this corridor on the right
• Were just off the main road
• Look! Theres a UFO off our left wing!
• The island is 23 miles off the cape
• Theres 20% off the list price
• Hes been off his feed since Tuesday
• Hes off his meds again
• He didnt buy it off him. He stole it off him
• Tantalum bar 6 off 3/8" Dia × 12" — Atom, Great Britain Atomic Energy Authority, 1972
• samples submitted … 12 off Thermistors type 1K3A531 … — BSI test report for shock and vibration testing, 2000
• Id like to re-order those printer cartridges, lets say 5-off
• He got in the way so I had him offed
• Can you off the light?
• He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off

Related words

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