Dictionary Definition
outlet
Noun
1 a place of business for retailing goods [syn:
mercantile
establishment, retail
store, sales
outlet]
2 receptacle providing a place in a wiring system
where current can be taken to run electrical devices [syn: wall socket,
wall
plug, electric
outlet, electrical
outlet, electric
receptacle]
3 an opening that permits escape or release; "he
blocked the way out"; "the canyon had only one issue" [syn:
exit, issue, way out]
4 activity that releases or expresses creative
energy or emotion; "she had no other outlet for her feelings"; "he
gave vent to his anger" [syn: release, vent]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- a vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something
- something which allows for the release of one's desires
- a river that runs out of a lake
- a shop that sells the products of a particular manufacturer or supplier
- 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.
Translations
release of desires
shop
- French: magasin d’usine
- Japanese: 直販店 (ちょくはんてん, chokuhanten)
- Mandarin: 折扣中心 (zhékòuzhōngxīn); (Taiwanese Mandarin) (chànghuòzhōngxīn)
- German: Direktverkauf
wall-mounted socket
- French: prise de courant
- Japanese: コンセント (konsento)
- Lithuanian: rozetė,
- Spanish: enchufe
Extensive Definition
Outlet may mean:
- An electric outlet, such as an AC power socket
- An outlet store
- An outlet mall
- The pelvic outlet
- A type of instance variable used for graphical user interface programming in the OpenStep / Cocoa environment
- Outlet, Ontario, a community in Canada
- The Outlet Company, a defunct retail and broadcasting company
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abreaction, access, acting-out, aisle, alley, ambulatory, aperture, arcade, artery, avenue, bill of sale, blowhole, break, breakout, broaching, catharsis, cavity, channel, chasm, check, chute, clearing, cleft, cloister, colonnade, communication, conduit, connection, corridor, covered way, crack, debouch, defile, deliverance, delivery, demand, discharge, disclosure, door, egress, emergence, emotional release,
emunctory, escape, escape hatch, escapism, estuary, evasion, exhaust, exit, extrication, fenestra, ferry, fistula, flight, floodgate, flume, fontanel, foramen, ford, freeing, gallery, gap, gape, gat, getaway, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, inlet, interchange, intersection, interval, issuance, issue, jailbreak, junction, lacuna, lane, laying open, leak, leakage, liberation, loophole, market, mass market, motor
abreaction, opening,
opening up, orifice,
out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, overpass, pass, passage, passageway, pore, port, portico, prisonbreak, psychocatharsis,
psychodrama,
purgation, railroad
tunnel, release, release
therapy, relief, rescue, retail, retailer, riddance, sale, sally port, setting-free,
shop, showroom, slot, sluice, space, spiracle, split, spout, stoma, store, tap, throwing open, tie-in, traject, trajet, tunnel, turnover, uncorking, underpass, unstopping, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, way out, weir, wholesale, yawn