set off
fiil- To leave; to set out; to begin a journey or trip. · He set off in search of better opportunities.
- To begin; to cause; to initiate. · I had no idea that one simple comment would set off such a huge argument.
- To cause to begin. · When he started giggling, it set us all off too.
- To cause to explode, let off. · What a tragedy, that someone would set off a bomb in a crowded place.
- To put into an angry mood; to start (a person) ranting or sulking, etc. · Don't set him off or he won't shut up all day.
- To enhance by emphasizing differences. · Her plain white dress was set off by a bright red stole.
- To offset, to compensate for: to reduce the effect of, by having a contrary effect. · My taxes did not increase because the amount of my raise was set off by my losses in the stock market.
- 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.
Kütüphaneden
This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance.
The boy looked at him for a moment with bright, canny eyes out of a dirty, intelligent face, and then set off at a run.
“Why didst thou not warn the man-cub?” he roared to poor Baloo, who had set off at a clumsy trot in the hope of overtaking the monkeys.
Matthew hitched the sorrel into the buggy in due time and Marilla and Anne set off.
set off kelimesini gerçek metinlerde öğrenin
Ücretsiz bir hesapla kütüphanedeki herhangi bir kelimenin üzerine gelerek anlamını görün, sesli okunuşunu dinleyin, kelimeleri hafızanıza göre zamanlanan tekrarlar için kaydedin ve her kitabın ne kadarını zaten bildiğinizi görün.