单词 | outlet |
释义 | outlet (once / 684 pages) 1n 2n Any hole or opening that allows water or gas to get out is an outlet. The place where water runs out of a lake and into a river is one example of an outlet. When you need to charge your laptop, you plug it into an electrical outlet, which gets its name from the idea that electricity comes out of it, just as water flows out of a river outlet. Outlet is also used to mean "store that sells discounted goods" and "a way to express yourself emotionally creatively." Dancing might be your outlet, for example — the way you let your feelings and creativity out. WORD FAMILYoutlet: outlets USAGE EXAMPLESLocal media outlets reported that emergency officials advised residents to stay in their homes and assess damage in the morning. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Several Israeli media outlets reported that Netanyahu is the subject of two police investigations. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Martin Fire Chief Jamie Summers tells media outlets that the fire occurred Sunday night and was extinguished after four hours. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n an opening that permits escape or release Syn|Hypo|Hyper exit, issue, way out outfall the outlet of a river or drain or other source of water opening a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made 2n receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices Syn|Hypo|Hyper electric outlet, electric receptacle, electrical outlet, wall plug, wall socket point, power point a wall socket receptacle an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert 3n activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion 2she had no other outlet for her feelings Syn|Hyper release, vent activity any specific behavior n a place of business for retailing goods Syn|Hypo|Hyper mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet country store, general store, trading post a retail store serving a sparsely populated region; usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise department store, emporiuma large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain discount house, discount store, discounter, wholesale housea sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price market, market place, marketplace, martan area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up center, mall, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mallmercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace shop, storea mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services strip malla mercantile establishment consisting of a row of various stores and business and restaurants along a road or busy street; usually opening on a parking lot agora, public squarea place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece bakehouse, bakery, bakeshopa workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold barbershopa shop where men can get their hair cut bazaar, bazara shop where a variety of goods are sold bazaar, bazara street of small shops (especially in the Orient) betting shopa licensed bookmaker's shop that is not at the race track bodegaa small Hispanic shop selling wine and groceries bookshop, bookstall, bookstorea shop where books are sold bootha small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment boutique, dress shopa shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry building supply house, building supply storea store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures butcher shop, meat marketa shop in which meat and poultry (and sometimes fish) are sold canteensells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc. chain storeone of a chain of retail stores under the same management and selling the same merchandise cleaners, dry cleanersshop where dry cleaning is done clothing store, haberdashery, haberdashery store, mens storea store where men's clothes are sold commissarya retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel) computer storea store that sells computers to the small businessperson or personal user candy store, confectionary, confectionerya confectioner's shop convenience storea store selling a limited variety of food and pharmaceutical items; open long hours for the convenience of customers deli, delicatessen, food shopa shop selling ready-to-eat food products apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, drugstore, pharmacya retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold florist, florist shop, flower storea shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold gift shop, novelty shopa shop that sells miscellaneous articles appropriate as gifts food market, grocery, grocery store, marketa marketplace where groceries are sold hardware store, ironmonger, ironmonger's shopa store selling hardware head shopa shop specializing in articles of interest to drug users junk shopa shop that sells cheap secondhand goods hat shop, millineryshop selling women's hats market square, open-air market, open-air marketplacea public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold outfittera shop that provides equipment for some specific purpose liquor store, off-licence, package storea store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere loan office, pawnbroker's shop, pawnshopa shop where loans are made with personal property as security perfumerystore where perfumes are sold pet shopa shop where pet animals can be purchased pizza parlor, pizza shop, pizzeriaa shop where pizzas are made and sold fix-it shop, repair shopa shop specializing in repairs and maintenance beauty parlor, beauty parlour, beauty salon, beauty shop, salona shop where hairdressers and beauticians work shoe shop, shoe store, shoe-shopa shop where shoes are sold slave marketa marketplace where slaves were auctioned off (especially in the southern United States before the American Civil War) specialty storea store that sells only one kind of merchandise second-hand store, thriftshopa shop that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices tobacco shop, tobacconist, tobacconist shopa shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes toyshopshop where toys are sold agorathe marketplace in ancient Greece business establishment, place of business an establishment (a factory or an assembly plant or retail store or warehouse etc.) where business is conducted, goods are made or stored or processed or where services are rendered |
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