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单词 go-off
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go-offn.

Brit. /ˈɡəʊˌɒf/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊˈɔf/, /ˈɡoʊˈɑf/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to go off at go v. Phrasal verbs 1.
Etymology: < to go off at go v. Phrasal verbs 1.
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.
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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.
2. Banking. The amount of loans falling due (and therefore going off the amount in the books) in a given period. Obsolete.The definition is ascribed by N.E.D. (1900) to Lord Aldenham, who probably also provided the illustrative example. No further evidence of the use has been found, but cf. to go off 1c at go v. Phrasal verbs 1.
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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).
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