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Withdraw vs Takeoff - What's the difference?

withdraw | takeoff |

As a verb withdraw

is to pull (something) back, aside, or away.

As a noun takeoff is

the rising or ascent of an aircraft or rocket into flight.

withdraw

English

Verb

  • To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
  • * Hooker
  • Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything.
  • To take back (a comment, etc).
  • to withdraw false charges
  • To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
  • To extract (money from an account).
  • To retreat.
  • To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.
  • * 1994 , (Edward St Aubyn), Bad News , Picador 2006, p. 201:
  • Simon had tried to rob a bank while he was withdrawing , but he had been forced to surrender to the police after they had fired several volleys at him.

    takeoff

    English

    Alternative forms

    * take-off

    Noun

    (wikipedia takeoff) (en noun)
  • The rising or ascent of an aircraft or rocket into flight.
  • The flight was smooth, but the takeoff was a little rough.
  • A parody or lampoon of someone or something.
  • song "Lasagna" is a takeoff on the popular song "La Bamba".
  • *1897 , Edward Bellamy, Equality ,
  • *:I came across a little pamphlet of the period, yellow and almost undecipherable, which, on examination, I found to be a rather amusing skit or satirical take-off on the profit system.
  • A quantification, especially of building materials.
  • I'll give you an estimate after I do the quantity takeoffs for the trusses and structural steel.

    See also

    * take off

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