"outage" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈaʊ.tɪd͡ʒ/ [UK], /ˈaʊ.tɪd͡ʒ/ [US], [ˈaʊ.ɾɪd͡ʒ] [US], /ˈaʊ.təd͡ʒ/ [US], /ˈæɔ.tɪd͡ʒ/ [General-Australian], [ˈæɔ.ɾɪd͡ʒ] [General-Australian] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-outage.wav [Southern-England] Forms: outages [plural]
Rhymes: -aʊtɪdʒ Etymology: From out + -age, on the model of shortage. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|out|age}} out + -age, {{m|en|shortage}} shortage Head templates: {{en-noun}} outage (plural outages)
  1. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply. Synonyms: blackout, power cut Translations (suspension of operation): престой (prestoj) [masculine] (Bulgarian), prostoj [masculine] (Czech), výpadek (of elektricity) [masculine] (Czech), porucha (english: function broken) [feminine] (Czech), panne [masculine] (Dutch), katkos (Finnish), panne (French), interruption (French), Ausfall [masculine] (German), Stromausfall [masculine] (German), black-out [masculine] (Italian), disservizio [masculine] (Italian), interruzione [feminine] (Italian), prastova [feminine] (Lithuanian), gedimas (english: function broken) [masculine] (Lithuanian), awaria [feminine] (Polish), przestój [masculine] (Polish), ава́рия (avárija) (Russian), apagón (Spanish), kesinti (Turkish), mất điện (Vietnamese), cúp điện (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-outage-en-noun-rnmf2wR1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -age Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 84 16 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -age: 70 30 Disambiguation of 'suspension of operation': 97 3
  2. The amount of something lost in storage or transportation. Translations (amount lost in storage or transportation): утечка (utečka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), perte de marchandise (French), nubyrėjimas (note: of solid) [masculine] (Lithuanian), nutekėjimas [masculine] (Lithuanian), nuotekis (note: of liquid) [masculine] (Lithuanian)
    Sense id: en-outage-en-noun-NiMlblxE Disambiguation of 'amount lost in storage or transportation': 7 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: sun outage Related terms: blackout, brownout, dropout, power cut

Inflected forms

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    }
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  "wikipedia": [
    "outage"
  ],
  "word": "outage"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.