salirse por la tangente

Phonetic: "/ɡəʉ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The act of going.

Definition: A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).

Example: It’s your go.

Definition: An attempt, a try.

Example: I’ll give it a go.

Definition: An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.

Example: We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go.

Definition: An act; the working or operation.

Definition: A circumstance or occurrence; an incident, often unexpected.

Definition: The fashion or mode.

Example: quite the go

Definition: Noisy merriment.

Example: a high go

Definition: A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.

Definition: Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.

Example: There is no go in him.

Definition: The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.

Definition: A period of activity.

Example: ate it all in one go

Definition: (British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.

Phonetic: "/ɡəʉ/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To move:

Definition: (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).

Example: The engine just won't go anymore.

Definition: To start; to begin (an action or process).

Example: Get ready, get set, go!

Definition: To take a turn, especially in a game.

Example: It’s your turn; go.

Definition: To attend.

Example: I go to school at the schoolhouse.

Definition: To proceed:

Definition: To follow or travel along (a path):

Definition: To extend (from one point in time or space to another).

Example: This property goes all the way to the state line.

Definition: To lead (to a place); to give access to.

Example: Does this road go to Fort Smith?

Definition: To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)

Example: After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight.

Definition: To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.

Definition: To continuously or habitually be in a state.

Example: I don't want my children to go hungry.

Definition: To come to (a certain condition or state).

Example: They went into debt, she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock.

Definition: To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.

Example: The traffic light went straight from green to red.

Definition: To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).

Example: How did your meeting with Smith go?

Definition: To tend (toward a result).

Example: These experiences go to make us stronger.

Definition: To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.

Example: qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter

Definition: To pass, to be used up:

Definition: To die.

Definition: To be discarded.

Example: This chair has got to go.

Definition: To be lost or out:

Definition: To break down or apart:

Definition: To be sold.

Example: Everything must go.

Definition: To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.

Example: The award went to Steven Spielberg.

Definition: To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.

Example: Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!

Definition: To have a certain record.

Example: The team is going five in a row.

Definition: To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:

Definition: To say (something), to make a sound:

Definition: To be expressed or composed (a certain way).

Example: As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic.

Definition: To resort (to).

Example: I'll go to court if I have to.

Definition: To apply or subject oneself to:

Definition: To fit (in a place, or together with something):

Definition: To date.

Example: He's been going with her for two weeks.

Definition: To attack:

Definition: To be in general; to be usually.

Example: As sentences go, this one is pretty boring.

Definition: To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.

Example: Let's go halves on this.

Definition: To yield or weigh.

Example: Those babies go five tons apiece.

Definition: To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.

Example: I'll go a ten-spot.

Definition: To enjoy. (Compare go for.)

Example: I could go a beer right about now.

Definition: To urinate or defecate.

Example: Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?

Phonetic: "/ɡəʉ/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: (usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.

Example: He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To kill.

Example: He got in the way so I had him offed.

Definition: To switch off.

Example: Can you off the light?

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Inoperative, disabled.

Example: All the lights are off.

Definition: Cancelled; not happening.

Example: The party's off because the hostess is sick.

Definition: Not fitted; not being worn.

Example: The drink spilled out of the bottle because the top was off.

Definition: Rancid, rotten, gone bad.

Example: This milk is off!

Definition: Less than normal, in temperament or in result.

Example: sales are off this quarter

Definition: Inappropriate; untoward.

Example: I felt that his comments were a bit off.

Definition: (in phrases such as 'well off', 'better off', 'poorly off') Circumstanced.

Definition: Started on the way.

Example: And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose.

Definition: Far; off to the side.

Example: He took me down the corridor and into an off room.

Definition: Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.

Example: He took an off day for fishing.  an off year in politics; the off season

Definition: (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.

Definition: (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.

Example: — I'll have the chicken please.

Definition: (in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).

Example: The off front wheel came loose.

Definition: In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: In a direction away from the speaker or object.

Example: He drove off in a cloud of smoke.

Definition: Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.

Example: Please switch off the light when you leave.

Definition: So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.

Example: He bit off the end of the carrot.

Definition: Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Not positioned upon; away from a position upon.

Example: He's off the roof now.

Definition: Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.

Example: He was thrown off the team for cheating.

Definition: Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.

Example: His office is off this corridor on the right.

Definition: Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.

Example: The island is 23 miles off the cape.

Definition: Removed or subtracted from.

Example: There's 20% off the list price.

Definition: No longer wanting or taking.

Example: He's been off his feed since Tuesday.

Definition: (more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.

Example: He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him.

Definition: Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.

Example: I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off.

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To reply to or talk to someone, either online or face-to-face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)

Example: Cars 2 is the most influential film of all time. Don't @ me.

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The at sign (@).

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.

Example: Caesar was at Rome;  at the corner of Fourth Street and Vine;  at Jim’s house

Definition: (indicating time) Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.

Example: at six o’clock;  at closing time;  at night.

Definition: In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner).

Example: He threw the ball at me.  He shouted at her.

Definition: Denotes a price.

Example: 3 apples at 2¢ (each)   The offer was at $30,000 before negotiations.

Definition: Occupied in (activity).

Example: men at work

Definition: In a state of.

Example: She is at sixes and sevens with him.  They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff.  The city was at the mercy of the occupying forces.

Definition: Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.

Example: Sell at 90.  Tiger finished the round at tenth, seven strokes behind the leaders.  I'm offering it—just to select customers—at cost.

Definition: Because of.

Example: to laugh at a joke   mad at their comments

Definition: Indicates a means, method, or manner.

Definition: Holding a given speed or rate.

Example: It is growing at the rate of 3% a year.  Cruising along at fifty miles per hour.

Definition: (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.

Example: He slipped at marksmanship over his extended vacation.

Definition: (stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to

Phonetic: "/æɪ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The name of the Latin script letter A/a.

Phonetic: "/ˈtæn.dʒənt/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.

Definition: A function of an angle that gives the ratio of the sine to the cosine, in either the real or complex numbers. Symbols: tan, tg.

Definition: A topic nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in common with it.

Example: I believe we went off onto a tangent when we started talking about monkeys on unicycles at his retirement party.

Definition: A small metal blade in a clavichord that strikes the strings to produce sound.

Phonetic: "/ˈtæn.dʒənt/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Touching a curve at a single point but not crossing it at that point.

Definition: Of a topic, only loosely related to a main topic.