outlet
Etymology
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.001
Etymology
From Middle English outlete, outeleate, ut-lete, derived from Middle English outleten, equivalent to out- + let.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈaʊtlɛt/, /ˈaʊtlɪt/
outlet (plural outlets)
- A vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something.
- Something which allows for the release of one's desires.
- Jamie found doing martial arts was a great outlet for her stress.
- 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
- Song of the bleeding throat, / Death’s outlet song of life, (for well dear brother I know, / If thou wast not granted to sing thou would’st surely die.)
- A river that runs out of a lake.
- A shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier.
- A wall-mounted socket connected to an electrical power supply, at which current can be taken to run electrical devices.
- I had to move the cupboard to get to the power outlet.
- French: magasin d’usine, franchise
- German: Direktverkauf, Werksverkauf, Direktvermarkter
- Portuguese: outlet
- Russian: торго́вая то́чка
- Spanish: minorista de marca, al-bolsillo
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.001
