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RELATED WORDS : electric outlet electrical outlet outlet box sales outlet thoracic outlet syndrome

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun outlet has 4 senses

• outlet(n = noun.artifact) mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet - a place of business for retailing goods; Array
has particulars: country store, general store, trading post, department store, emporium, discount house, discount store, discounter, wholesale house, market, market place, marketplace, mart, center, mall, plaza, shopping center, shopping centre, shopping mall, shop, store, strip mall
has parts: merchandise, product, ware
is a kind of business establishment, place of business

• outlet(n = noun.artifact) electric outlet, electric receptacle, electrical outlet, wall plug, wall socket - receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices; Array
has particulars: point, power point
is a kind of receptacle

• outlet(n = noun.artifact) exit, issue, way out - an opening that permits escape or release; "he blocked the way out"; "the canyon had only one issue"
is a kind of opening
has particulars: outfall

• outlet(n = noun.act) release, vent - activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion; "she had no other outlet for her feelings"; "he gave vent to his anger"
is a kind of activity

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THESAURUS

outlet

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

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outlet

Opening

N opening, hole, foramen, puncture, perforation, fontanel, transforation, pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole, eye of a needle, eyelet, slot, opening, aperture, apertness, hiation, yawning, oscitancy, dehiscence, patefaction, pandiculation, chasm, embrasure, window, casement, abatjour, light, sky light, fan light, lattice, bay window, bow window, oriel, dormer, lantern, outlet, inlet, vent, vomitory, embouchure, orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle, placket, portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door, arcade, cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway, lich gate, way, path, thoroughfare, channel, passage, passageway, tube, pipe, water pipe, air pipe, vessel, tubule, canal, gut, fistula, adjutage, ajutage, ostium, smokestack, chimney, flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main, mine, pit, adit, shaft, gallery, alley, aisle, glade, vista, bore, caliber, pore, blind orifice, fulgurite, thundertube, porousness, porosity, sieve, cullender, colander, cribble, riddle, screen, honeycomb, apertion, perforation, piercing, terebration, empalement, pertusion, puncture, acupuncture, penetration, key, opener, master key, password, combination, passe- partout, open, perforated, perforate, wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped, oscitant, gaping, yawning, patent, tubular, cannular, fistulous, pervious, permeable, foraminous, vesicular, vasicular, porous, follicular, cribriform, honeycombed, infundibular, riddled, tubulous, tubulated, piped, tubate, opening, aperient, Int, open sesame!.

Egress

N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.

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