单词 | outage |
释义 | outagen. 1. U.S. The amount of something lost during transportation; (also in early use) a charge compensating for this; (now usually) the loss of liquid by evaporation or leakage. Also: the amount by which a container falls short of being full. Cf. ullage n. ΚΠ 1851 Deb. & Proc. Maryland Reform Convent. I. 223 The inspection of one dollar per hogshead [of tobacco] has been removed to gull the planters, but the outage of $1.25..is retained. 1869 Sci. Amer. 7 Aug. 86/2 In shipping in barrels, it is customary to leave about one gallon ‘outage’, as in 50° (which may be considered the extreme variation in temperature likely to occur while the oil is in transit,) 44 gallons would become 45. 1882 Freeborn County (Albert Lea, Minnesota) Standard 29 June 1/4 I am aware it has been argued that the leakage or outage allowance named in the bill, is only the maximum and no more than the actual outage can be deducted. 1911 Indianapolis Star 8 Feb. 7/2 This bill sought to relieve distillers from taxation on liquors lost by outage or evaporation. 1943 Court of Customs & Patent Appeals Rep. (Lexis) 30 150 The importation involved is whisky from Canada. The entries were liquidated on the basis of the capacity of each package less 2 1/2 per centum for outage in accordance with T. D. 27379. 1991 Oil & Gas Jrnl. (Nexis) 29 July 78 The measured outage is subtracted from the fixed reference gauge height (RGH) to give the oil depth. Outage is also called ullage. 2. Originally and chiefly U.S. A period or state in which an apparatus or system (esp. an electrical one) is not operating; power failure; a power cut. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical power, electricity > place of power generation > [noun] > temporary failure outage1895 power failure1904 power loss1905 power cut1927 power outage1944 1895 Ann. Rep. Board of Admin. Cincinnati 1894 40 The number of outages of city electric lights for 1894 reported by the Police Department to Electrical Department was as follows. 1900 Elyria (Ohio) Republican 21 June 1/3 By resolution the night police were instructed to report on outages of electric lights. 1951 Engineering 5 Jan. 28/2 Outages will occur for about 50 per cent. of the flashovers so that trouble due to lightning can be expected once per annum per 500 miles. 1963 K. Neville in D. Knight 100 Years Sci. Fiction (1969) 73 There's an outage in the Silver Lake Area. The brakes on a bus failed and took out an overhead section. 1985 Telegraph (Brisbane) 3 Apr. 6/5 We rely on consumers to report outages. Is there a light out in your street? 2001 Time 15 Jan. 46/2 Californians were told power would become more plentiful... But..barely a week goes by without warnings of rolling blackouts or outages. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmasout-age out-age v. Brit. , U.S. (transitive) to exceed in age.ΚΠ 1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 140 I mean mine [sc. pyramids] to outlive and out-age the Egyptian ones! 1996 Times (Nexis) 9 Jan. I do not drive a two-seater now. I wish I could boast that I have outgrown them, but that would not be the truth. The truth is that I have outaged them. < as lemmas |
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