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Meaning of "off-topic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OFF-TOPIC

off-topic  [ˌɒfˈtɒpɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OFF-TOPIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Off-Topic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OFF-TOPIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Off topic

In the context of mailing lists, discussion groups, discussion forums, bulletin boards, newsgroups, and wikis a contribution is off-topic if it is not within the bounds of the current discussion, and on-topic if it is. Even on very specialized forums and lists off topic posting is not necessarily frowned upon, but a common netiquette convention is to mark a new off-topic posting or email by beginning it with "OT" - for example in a forum discussing the Linux operating system someone might post: "OT: Wow, did you feel that earthquake?". Posting off-topic messages to deliberately aggravate other members is a form of trolling.

Definition of off-topic in the English dictionary

The definition of off-topic in the dictionary is not related to the matter being discussed.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OFF-TOPIC


anisotropic
ænˌaɪsəʊˈtrɒpɪk
atopic
əˈtɒpɪk
betatopic
ˌbiːtəˈtɒpɪk
ectopic
ekˈtɒpɪk
entopic
ɛnˈtɒpɪk
eurytopic
ˌjʊərɪˈtɒpɪk
heterotopic
ˌhɛtərəʊˈtɒpɪk
isotopic
ˌaɪsəˈtɒpɪk
metopic
mɪˈtɒpɪk
microscopic
ˌmaɪkrəˈskɒpɪk
orthotopic
ˈɔːθəˈtɒpɪk
photopic
fəʊˈtɒpɪk
radioisotopic
ˌreɪdɪəʊˌaɪsəˈtɒpɪk
scotopic
skəˈtɒpɪk
spectroscopic
ˈspɛktrəskɒpɪk
stenotopic
ˌstɛnəʊˈtɒpɪk
subtopic
ˌsʌbˈtɒpɪk
telescopic
ˌtɛlɪˈskɒpɪk
topic
ˈtɒpɪk
tropic
ˈtrɒpɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OFF-TOPIC

off-reserve
off-road
off-roader
off-roading
off-sales
off-screen
off-season
off-site
off-street
off-street parking
off-the-cuff
off-the-job
off-the-job training
off-the-peg
off-the-record
off-the-shelf
off-the-shoulder
off-the-wall
off-white
off-year election

WORDS THAT END LIKE OFF-TOPIC

adrenocorticotropic
anthropic
arthroscopic
azeotropic
biopic
endoscopic
Ethiopic
fluoroscopic
hygroscopic
inotropic
kaleidoscopic
laparoscopic
macroscopic
myopic
nootropic
philanthropic
psychotropic
stereoscopic
stroboscopic
thixotropic

Synonyms and antonyms of off-topic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «off-topic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OFF-TOPIC

Find out the translation of off-topic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of off-topic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «off-topic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

题外话
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fuera de tema
570 millions of speakers

English

off-topic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऑफ विषय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خارج الموضوع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

не по теме
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

off-topic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অন্য প্রসঙ্গ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hors-sujet
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Luar topik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

off-topic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

話題からずれた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

주제에서 벗어난
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Off-topic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

off-topic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சம்மந்தமில்லாதது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विषया व्यतिरिक्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

konu dışı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

off - topic
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

off - topic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

не по темі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

off- topic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

off - topic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onderwerp af
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

off - topic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

off- topic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of off-topic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OFF-TOPIC»

The term «off-topic» is very widely used and occupies the 7.515 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OFF-TOPIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «off-topic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «off-topic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about off-topic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OFF-TOPIC»

Discover the use of off-topic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to off-topic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt:
Your review of Logic: A Very Short Introduction was recently flagged by Goodreads members as potentially off-topic. As the review is not about the book, it has been removed from the site. I can't complain about that, they were quite right — I ...
G. R. Reader, 2013
2
Topic Detection and Tracking: Event-Based Information ...
We proceed to compute this score for a large number of stories presumed to be off- topic. For tracking, we assume that every story pre-dating the known on-topic stories for a given query is actually off-topic. We assume that these scores will ...
James Allan, 2002
3
Intelligent Virtual Agents: 6th International Conference, ...
Question Combined Classifier On-topic Answer: Class 1 On-topic Answer: Class 2 On-topic Answer: Class 55 Off-topic Class 1 Off-topic Class 8 Fig. 3. Architecture 1 with one classifier The simplest modified architecture is shown in Figure 3 ...
Jonathan Gratch, 2006
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Artificial Intelligence in Education: Supporting Learning ...
Another weakness of the current method is that it addresses different kinds of off- topic writing in the same way. such feedback about off-topic writing to students. For training purposes, however, the current method requires a significant number  ...
Chee-Kit Looi, 2005
5
Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based ...
We have coined the phrase ”going off-topic together” to describe situations where something that would normally be considered off-topic (such as fundraising or politics) becomes on-topic—at least temporarily. Going off-topic together can ...
Robert E. Kraut, Paul Resnick, Sara Kiesler, 2012
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Languages: From Formal to Natural: Essays Dedicated to ...
We should note that the labels “on-topic” and “off-topic” characterize SGT Star's responses, not the user's questions: an in-domain question can receive an off- topic response (e.g., if it was not properly recognized), and such a response may  ...
Orna Grumberg, Michael Kaminski, Shmuel Katz, 2009
7
Focus on Nonverbal Communication Research
Finley R. Lewis. On-topic and Off-topic Probes On-topic and off-topic probes had the same Wh-signs combined with signs that were either contingent on or irrelevant to the signs in the previous utterance of the chimpanzee. On-topic Trial  ...
Finley R. Lewis, 2007
8
Child Language Development in Singapore and Malaysia
reminds me...', etc. An off-topic act, on the other hand, using Corsaro's definition ( 1979:377), is ...any act within an interact which is not relevant to the topic and is initiated without a formal topic shift attempt (or marker). 0ff-topic acts are often ...
Anna Kwan-Terry, 1991
9
Students, Language, and Physics: Discourse in the Science ...
Shantel and Katie each devoted a moderate number of turns to off topic speech ( 28% and 19% respectively), possibly reflecting a moderate social sense combined with an academic sense of self (again, the remainder reflects on topic turns).
Susan Marie Kowalski, 2007
10
Terrorism Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining ...
Documents retrieved by the 'North Korea' queries were labeled as OFF- topic given that the analyst was from the biological weapons in Iraq shop. All other documents were labeled as ON-topic, since, for the purposes of the project, it will  ...
Hsinchun Chen, Edna Reid, Joshua Sinai, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OFF-TOPIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term off-topic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Miley Cyrus Shows Off Her Photoshop Skills On Instagram
Not to mention that you're off-topic; apparently you've confused tit-for-tat in this instance - lol. Like · Reply · 17 · Jul 23, 2015 11:28am. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
Parting shot
We reserve the right to delete any comments that we feel are spammy, off-topic, or reckless to the community. Be proactive - Use the 'Flag as ... «Daily Astorian, Jul 15»
3
AP Top Entertainment News At 3 am EDT
We reserve the right to delete any comments that we feel are spammy, off-topic, or reckless to the community. Be proactive - Use the 'Flag as ... «East Oregonian, Jul 15»
4
Two prisoners escape, policeman killed in T&T prison break
We reserve the right to remove comments – Comments that we find to be abusive, spam, libellous, hateful, off-topic or harassing may be ... «Nation News, Jul 15»
5
Alert rattles Bajans
We reserve the right to remove comments – Comments that we find to be abusive, spam, libellous, hateful, off-topic or harassing may be ... «Nation News, Jul 15»
6
Overwhelming smell
We reserve the right to remove comments – Comments that we find to be abusive, spam, libellous, hateful, off-topic or harassing may be ... «Nation News, Jul 15»
7
Increased seismic activity at Kick 'em Jenny
We reserve the right to remove comments – Comments that we find to be abusive, spam, libellous, hateful, off-topic or harassing may be ... «Nation News, Jul 15»
8
Why You May Be Ticking Off Your Colleagues (and Your Boss) On …
... like construction work, or a dog barking, to be heard on meeting calls. Monopolizing meetings with off-topic comments is another faux pas. «TheStreet.com, Jul 15»
9
California shell egg prices
We reserve the right to delete any comments that we feel are spammy, off-topic, or reckless to the community. Be proactive - Use the 'Flag as ... «Capital Press, Jul 15»
10
Winning numbers drawn in 'Lucky Lines' game
We reserve the right to delete any comments that we feel are spammy, off-topic, or reckless to the community. Be proactive - Use the 'Flag as ... «East Oregonian, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Off-Topic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/off-topic>. May 2024 ».
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