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Definition of Set off

1. Verb. Put in motion or move to act. "Actuate the circuits"

2. Verb. Leave. "These cars won't set off "; "The family took off for Florida"

3. Verb. Direct attention to, as if by means of contrast. "I set off these words by brackets"

4. Verb. Cause to burst with a violent release of energy. "We exploded the nuclear bomb"

5. Verb. Make up for. "His skills offset his opponent's superior strength"

6. Verb. Set in motion or cause to begin. "The guide set the tour off to a good start"

7. Verb. Provoke or stir up. "Set off great unrest among the people"

Definition of Set off

1. Verb. (idiomatic intransitive) To leave; to begin a journey or trip. ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To begin; to cause; to initiate. ¹

3. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To cause to explode. ¹

4. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To make angry. ¹

5. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To offset, to compensate for: to reduce the effect of, by having a contrary effect. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Set Off

set decoration set down set fire set foot set for life set forth set free set gun set in set in motion

set in one's ways set in stone set list set of bookshelves set of pipes set off (current term) set on set on fire set one's cap at set one's shoulder to the wheel

set one's teeth on edge set operation set out set phrase set phrases set piece set pieces set point set points set pulses racing

Literary usage of Set off

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"Distinction between set-off in Equity and at Law. In Equity it prevailed long upon-a loss after it, passes; and gives a right of Action to the assignees, ..."

2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1884)
"A set-off is allowed only when the iuit is based on a demand which could itself be used ... If the claim is one arising from a tort there can be no set-off. ..."

3. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1867)
"And where demands ori- into a rule not to sue for the debt intended to be set off; or he nay take a verdict for the smaller »urn, wilh a special indorsement ..."

4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1875)
"Though the defendant does not avail himself of the set-off, intending to bring a ... A set-off is not allowed in an action for uncertain damages, ..."

5. A Treatise of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by Sir John Barnard Byles, George Sharswood (1883)
"Equity would not relieve a party who neglected to plead a set-off at law.(w) But if the set-off were a mere equitable demand, not available at law, ..."

6. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"could allow themselves only to walk with the two young ladies to Hartfield gates before they set off for Randalls. Chapter IT may be possible to do without ..."

7. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen, Reginald Brimley Johnson (1892)
"could allow themselves only to walk with the two young ladies to Hartfield gates before they set off for Randalls. Chapter IT may be possible to do without ..."

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