'outlet' definitions:
Definition of 'outlet'
From: WordNet
noun
A place of business for retailing goods [syn: mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet, outlet]
noun
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, outlet, electric receptacle]
noun
An opening that permits escape or release; "he blocked the way out"; "the canyon had only one issue" [syn: exit, issue, outlet, way out]
noun
Definition of 'outlet'
From: GCIDE
- Socket \Sock"et\, n. [OE. soket, a dim. through OF. fr. L. soccus. See Sock a covering for the foot.]
- 1. An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth. [1913 Webster]
- His eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Electricity) the receptacle of an electric lamp into which a light bulb is inserted, containing contacts to conduct electricity to the bulb. [PJC]
- 4. (Electricity) the receptacle fixed in a wall and connected by conductive wiring to an electrical supply, containing contacts to conduct electricity, and into which the plug of an electrical device is inserted; -- called also a wall socket or outlet. The socket will typically have two or three contacts; if three, the third is connected to a ground for safety. [PJC]
- And in the sockets oily bubbles dance. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Socket bolt (Mach.), a bolt that passes through a thimble that is placed between the parts connected by the bolt.
- Socket chisel. Same as Framing chisel. See under Framing.
- Socket pipe, a pipe with an expansion at one end to receive the end of a connecting pipe.
- Socket pole, a pole armed with iron fixed on by means of a socket, and used to propel boats, etc. [U.S.]
- Socket wrench, a wrench consisting of a socket at the end of a shank or rod, for turning a nut, bolthead, etc., in a narrow or deep recess. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'outlet'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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