Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Verbit
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To leave; to begin a journey or trip.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To begin; to cause; to initiate.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To cause to explode.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To make angry.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To offset, to compensate for: to reduce the effect of, by having a contrary effect.
- (printing, historical) To deface or soil the next sheet; said of the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another sheet comes in contact with it before it has had time to dry.
Esimerkit
- He set off in search of better opportunities.
- I had no idea that one simple comment would set off such a huge argument.
- What a tragedy, that someone would set off a bomb in a crowded place.
- Don't set him off or he won't shut up all day.
- My taxes did not increase because the amount of my raise was set off by my losses in the stock market.
- When a woman had made such a mistake, there was only one way to repair it,—to accept it. One folly was enough, especially it was to last for ever; a second one would not much set it off.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | set off |
| Imperfekti | set off |
| Partisiipin preesens | setting off |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | sets off |