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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun blackout has 5 senses
- blackout(n = noun.time) Array - a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting; Array is a kind of break, intermission, interruption, pause, suspension
- blackout(n = noun.state) brownout, dimout - darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft); Array is a kind of dark, darkness
- blackout(n = noun.event) Array - the failure of electric power for a general region; Array is a kind of power failure, power outage
- blackout(n = noun.cognition) Array - a momentary loss of consciousness; Array is a kind of unconsciousness
- blackout(n = noun.cognition) amnesia, memory loss - partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening" is a kind of cognitive state, state of mind
Derived form verb black out3
Derived form verb black out2
Derived form verb black out2
Derived form verb black out4
has particulars: anterograde amnesia, posttraumatic amnesia, retrograde amnesia, forgetfulness, selective amnesia, transient global amnesia
CIDE DICTIONARY
blackout, n.
- a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting. [WordNet 1.5]
- any darkness resulting from the extinction of lights. [WordNet 1.5]
- the failure of electric power for a general region sufficient to extinguish all normal lighting. [WordNet 1.5]
- a momentary loss of consciousness. [WordNet 1.5]
- partial or total loss of memory. [WordNet 1.5]
- a period during which artificial lighting is forbidden, as in a city as a precaution against an air raid. [PJC]
- the darkening of all stage lights, as at then end of a performance or between acts. [PJC]
- suppression of information distribution; as, there was a blackout on news from the military for the first day of the Gulf War. [PJC]
- the prohibition of the broadcasting of a sports event, such as a boxing match or football game, sometimes confined to one particular area. It is usually done to encourage sales of tickets to the event. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
blackout, n.
1 a temporary or complete loss of vision, consciousness, or memory.
2 a loss of power, radio reception, etc.
3 a compulsory period of darkness as a precaution against air raids.
4 a temporary suppression of the release of information, esp. from police or government sources.
5 a sudden darkening of a theatre stage.
1 a temporary or complete loss of vision, consciousness, or memory.
2 a loss of power, radio reception, etc.
3 a compulsory period of darkness as a precaution against air raids.
4 a temporary suppression of the release of information, esp. from police or government sources.
5 a sudden darkening of a theatre stage.
THESAURUS
blackout
KO, agnosia, amnesia, anoxia, asteroids, aurora particles, bamboo curtain, barrier of secrecy, blocking, brownout, catalepsy, catatonia, catatony, censorship, coma, cosmic particles, cosmic ray bombardment, curtain, dematerialization, departure, dimout, disappearance, disappearing, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, eclipse, elimination, erasure, evanescence, evaporation, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, faint, fugue, going, grayout, hush-up, intergalactic matter, iron curtain, ironbound security, kayo, knockout, lipothymia, lipothymy, loss of memory, melting, meteor dust impacts, meteors, nirvana, nirvana principle, nothingness, oath of secrecy, oblivion, obliviousness, occultation, official secrecy, pall, passing, pressure suit, radiation, repression, seal of secrecy, security, semiconsciousness, senselessness, sleep, smothering, space bullets, stifling, stupor, suppression, swoon, syncope, the bends, unconsciousness, vanishing, vanishing point, veil, veil of secrecy, weightlessness, wipe, word deafness, wraps
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