move off

verb

To start moving.

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Meanings

verbmove off (third-person singular simple present moves off, present participle moving off, simple past and past participle moved off)

present singular third person moves off · participle present moving off · participle past moved off · past moved off

  1. To start moving.

    Driver Cerr spent so long complaining to us about the quality of the coal that we had barely time to get into coach No. 51, the oldest type of third-class six-wheeler, as we moved off.

    1950 April, Two Belfast Correspondents, “The Last Days of the Belfast and County Down Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 267
    1 more example

    When the large handwheel seen in the illustration of a 68000 class cab is moved from "stop" to "run", the traction circuit contactors are closed and the locomotive moves off with the diesel engine running at idling speed.

    1964 May, “Automation in the cab—latest SNCF developments”, in Modern Railways, page 336
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