What does Outlet mean?

Definitions for Outlet
ˈaʊt lɛt, -lɪtout·let

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet, outletnoun

    a place of business for retailing goods

  2. wall socket, wall plug, electric outlet, electrical outlet, outlet, electric receptaclenoun

    receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices

  3. exit, issue, outlet, way outnoun

    an opening that permits escape or release

    "he blocked the way out"; "the canyon had only one issue"

  4. release, outlet, ventnoun

    activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion

    "she had no other outlet for her feelings"; "he gave vent to his anger"

Wiktionary

  1. outletnoun

    a vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something

  2. outletnoun

    something which allows for the release of one's desires

  3. outletnoun

    a river that runs out of a lake

  4. outletnoun

    a shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier

  5. outletnoun

    a wall-mounted device such as a socket or receptacle connected to an electrical system at which current is taken to supply utilization equipment or appliances.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Outletnoun

    Passage outwards; discharge outwards; egress; passage of egress.

    Etymology: out and let.

    Colonies and foreign plantations, are very necessary, as outlets to a populous nation. Francis Bacon.

    The enemy was deprived of that useful out-let. Edward Hyde.

    So ’scapes th’ insulting fire his narrow jail,
    And makes small outlets into open air. Dryden.

    Have a care that these members be neither the inlets nor outlets of any vices; that they neither give admission to the temptation, nor be expressive of the conception of them. John Ray.

Wikipedia

  1. Outlet

    Outlet is a song by American rapper Desiigner. It was released on February 10, 2017, for digital download by GOOD Music and Def Jam Recordings. The song is written by Sidney Selby III, Anderson Hernandez, Rian Basilio and Corey Thompson while the production is primarily handled by Vinylz with co-production by CT and additional production by Mike Dean.

ChatGPT

  1. outlet

    An outlet is a point from where goods, services, substances or other things are distributed or made available. This could refer to a place, like a retail store, a physical point where power or liquid is circulated, such as an electrical or water outlet, or a means of expression or release like in artistic or emotional outlets.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Outlet

    owt′let, n. the place or means by which anything is let out: the passage outward, vent.

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

  1. Outlet

    The part of an electrolier or electric light fixture out of which the wires are led for attachment of an incandescent light socket.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. outlet

    The effluent or stream by which a lake discharges its water. Also applied to the spot where the efflux commences.

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Outlet' in Nouns Frequency: #2424

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Anagrams for Outlet »

  1. let out

  2. tutelo

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Outlet in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Outlet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Outlet in a Sentence

  1. Police Commissioner James O'Neill:

    Think about having to respond to shootings and homicides, people hit by trains, people hit by vehicles. Think about what that does to a police officer, we're supposed to be tough and that's OK. It comes with the line of work. But where's the outlet for that ? Is it talking to your partner ? You're not getting home and talking about it.

  2. Deputy Chief Inspector Nicole Broster:

    ( SWNS) The gruesome discovery took place on March 9 outside of an unidentified building in the Cricklewood neighborhood. When the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals( RSPCA) arrived to make the rescue, they had to call for backup. Deputy Chief Inspector Nicole Broster told the outlet that firefighters had to use car-crash rescue machinery to remove the section of the fence the cat was trapped on. The male ginger and white cat was found at 3:50 a.m. on March 9. ( SWNS) WHY YOUR PET ’S FOOD BOWL COULD BE MAKING YOU SICK When I got there I was incredibly shocked — in all my years with the RSPCA I have never seen anything like it. This poor cat literally had two metal posts protruding through his body.

  3. Harry Emerson Fosdick:

    The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

  4. Samuel Johns:

    I found my outlet through music. That's what really helped me sober up.

  5. Jennifer Aniston:

    So I had a choice to make: Either I'm going to surrender into bonbons and living under my covers, or I'm going to go out there and find a creative outlet and thrive, and that's what I did, it just happened to be with a movie called‘The Break-Up,’.

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