set off vs take off

set off and take off both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
set off	No	No	Yes	No
take off	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, set off and take off are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of set off include depart, part, set forth, set out, start, start out.

As verbs, take off is a hyponym of set off; that is, take off is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than set off:

Other hyponyms of set off include lift off, roar off, blaze, blaze out, sally forth, sally out.

set off (verb)	take off (verb)
cause to burst with a violent release of energy	remove clothes or shoes
set in motion or cause to begin	take away
direct attention to, as if by means of contrast	make a subtraction
provoke or stir up	prove fatal
put in motion or move to act	mimic or imitate in an amusing or satirical manner
depart for someplace	depart for someplace
make up for	get started or set in motion, used figuratively
	depart from the ground
	take time off from work; stop working temporarily