单词 | go-off |
释义 | go-offn. colloquial. 1. Originally U.S. The action or fact of making a start; commencement, beginning; the moment of doing this, the starting point. Also: the action of making an attempt at something; = go n.1 2b. at one go-off: = at one go at go n.1 Phrases 2. (at) first go-off: = (at the) first go at go n.1 Phrases 5. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > continually (in action) [phrase] > in one unbroken spell of action go-off1830 at one go-to1853 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] ordeOE thresholdeOE frumthc950 anginOE frumeOE worthOE beginninga1225 springc1225 springc1225 commencementc1250 ginninga1300 comsingc1325 entryc1330 aginning1340 alphac1384 incomea1400 formec1400 ingressc1420 birtha1425 principlea1449 comsementa1450 resultancec1450 inition1463 inceptiona1483 entering1526 originala1529 inchoation1530 opening1531 starting1541 principium1550 entrance1553 onset1561 rise1589 begin1590 ingate1591 overture1595 budding1601 initiationa1607 starting off1616 dawninga1631 dawn1633 impriminga1639 start1644 fall1647 initial1656 outset1664 outsettinga1698 going off1714 offsetting1782 offset1791 commence1794 aurora1806 incipiency1817 set-out1821 set-in1826 throw-off1828 go-off1830 outstart1844 start1857 incipience1864 oncome1865 kick-off1875 off-go1886 off1896 get-go1960 lift-off1967 1830 Amer. Farmer 12 Mar. 412/3 I..kept stopping and starting him, until I could perceive no signs of restiveness, or any disposition to falter in the go off. 1836 Vermont Patriot & State Gaz. 13 June Enabling its editor to publish the names of all the deserters from the cause of Whiggery, in that County, at one go-off. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick iv. 31 The first go off of a bitter cold morning. 1856 W. W. Dobie Recoll. Visit Port-Phillip iii. 52 Inducing a sympathetic reader to indulge in two years oscitation at one ‘go off’. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) III. 156 They..then sit up to read it ‘at one go-off’. 1888 ‘F. Warden’ Witch of Hills I. xii. 253 One gentleman isn't bound to fly into the arms of another gentleman first go-off. 1926 Amer. Mercury Mar. 304/1 I rather flattered myself—that is, at the go-off—that I was doing very pretty work, reading ‘Hamlet’ and Aristophanes in a semi-original translation. 1956 N. Coward Diary 23 Dec. (2000) 339 Coley did an exquisite little woman's head at first go off. 1989 Irish Farmers' Jrnl. 20 May (Country Living Mag.) 5/1 I never witnessed anyone making bad silage the first go off. ΚΠ 1900 N.E.D. at Go-off The Governor of the Bank of England says every Thursday to the Court ‘The go-off this week is £——,000’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1830 |
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