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Black Out

Definitions: Black Out

Black Out

Verb

1. Obliterate or extinguish, of lights; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived.".

2. Darken completely; "The dining room blackened out".

3. Suppress by censorship; of reporting, as for political reasons.

4. Lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Black Out

DomainDefinitions

Fine Arts

A restriction or prohibition of the telecasting of a program. . . especially in the area of origination. . Source: European Union. (references)

Medicine

The temporary loss of vision which may occur without loss of consciousness under conditions of +G sub z(positive)acceleration. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Black Out

Synonyms: blacken out (v), pass out (v), zonk out (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Black Out

English words defined with "black out": bikers, Black-letter, boyelongated, extendedgo by, go pastlengthenedpass, pass by, pointer, prolongedrice weevil, rock, rock and roll, rock music, rock 'n' roll, rock-and-roll, rockers, rock'n'rollSpanish pointer, surpasstravel by. (references)
Specialty definitions using "black out": BENEDICTINES, Big Room, Black Assize, BLACK JACKdrop on the floorFabius, FIRER HELPERGNOME, grey-scaleIch DienMauthe DogReal Programmers Don't Use Pascal, REPEAT-PHOTOCOMPOSING-MACHINE OPERATORSoil solarization, SOLAR-FABRICATION TECHNICIAN, SULZERVisit. (references)

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Modern Usage: Black Out

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Well neither do I, but when you black out we don't know what you believe in do we? (Ninja III: The Domination; writing credit: James R. Silke)

Movie/TV Titles

Black Out (1970)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Black Out

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Black Out

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  black out

65

  black out light cover

4

  taillight black out

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Black Out

Language Translations for "black out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

bie të fikët (faint, lose consciousness, swoon), mbaj të fshehtë (conceal, hide, secrete), errësoj (adumbrate, becloud, bedim, blur, darken, dim, dusk, eclipse, fog, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shadow). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تعتيم (dimness), ‏إطفاء الأنوار كلها. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

зачерквам (blank, cancel, cross off, cross out, delete, kill, score out, scratch off, strike, write off), затъмнявам (adumbrate, becloud, cloud, darken, eclipse, obscure, occult, outshine, out-top, shade, shadow), заглушавам (deaden, deafen, drown, dull, intercept, jam, jam out, kill, obstruct, overgrow, silence), забранявам (ban, disallow, enjoin, estop, forbid, inhibit, interdict, prohibit, proscribe, provide against, suppress, veto). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ztratit vìdomí (fall unconscious), zhasnout (douse, fizzle out, go off, go out, pack up, snuff out, switch off, turn off, turn out), zatemnit (darken, darkle, dim out, obfuscate, obscure, overcloud), výpadek proudu, přerušit (abort, adjourn, break off, cut off, cut short, discontinue, disrupt, intermit, interrupt, split up, stop, suspend, terminate, turn off), omdlít (faint, feint, go out, pass out, swoon). (various references)

   

Danish

  

black out, udfald af radiosignaler. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

black-out. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

näön musteneminen. (various references)

   

French

  

voile noir, vision noire, tomber dans les pommes, s'évanouir, occultation (blanketing), extinction (blanking), décrochage. (various references)

   

German

  

Black-Out, verdunkeln (becloud, damage, darken, deepen, dim, dim out, eclipse, harm, obscure, suppress, to darken), Schwarzsehen, ohnmächtig werden (faint, pass out, swoon, to faint, to keel over), Funkstille (blackout, radio blackout, radio silence), das bewusstsein verlieren. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συσκοτίζω (becloud, obfuscate), λιποθυμώ (faint, flake out, pass out, swoon), αμαύρωση όρασης στην πτήση (blackout), απαγορεύω την δημοσίευση είδησησ, διάλειψη (fade, fading, fading of signals, occultation), διαγράφω (cancel, cross off, cross out, delete, delineate, erase, rub out, score out, scratch out, silhouette, strike off, strike out, wipe out, write off). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elájul (faint, swoon, to collapse, to faint, to fall down in a faint, to fall insensible, to fall into a swoon, to go off, to go off in a faint, to go off in a swoon, to lose one's senses, to pass out, to swoon), cenzúráz (censor, red pencil, to blue-pencil, to censor). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

penggelapan (blackout, cover up, darkenong, embezling, embezzlement, fraud, malversation, scam). (various references)

   

Italian

  

blackout, visione nera, silenzio radio, oscurare (become obscure, blacken, blind, darken, dim, obscure, overcast, overshadow, shade, shadow). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lane-vooghey soilshey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackblay outay

   

Portuguese

  

visão negra. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

cenzura (censor), camuflaj (camouflage, dazzle, veil), camufla (black, conceal, disguise, hide), avea un lapsus, amnezie (amnesia), înnegri (black, blacken, smut, smutch), înãbuşire (choke, repression). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вычеркивать (blue-pencil, cancel, cross off, cross out, delete, efface, expunge, expurgate, kill, line through, obliterate, raze, score out, scratch, scratch out, strike off, strike out), вымарывать (delete), затемнять (adumbrate, becloud, bedim, blind, darken, dim, dim out, eclipse, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zamračiti (becloud, cloud, darken, obfuscate, obscure), izgubiti pamćenje. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

visión negra, silencio de señal, perder el conocimiento (lose consciousness), apagar las luces (light out). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tuppa av (conk, nod off, pass out), stryka ut (blot, blue pencil, cross off, cross out, iron out, obliterate, scratch out, strike off), mörkläggning (blackout, black-out, dim out), mörklägga. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

викреслювати (blot out, blue pencil, cancel, cross off, cross out, delete, efface, elide, erase, expunge, line out, obliterate, rase, raze, score out, scratch off, scratch out). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Black Out

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: blackout.

Words within the letters "a-b-c-k-l-o-t-u"

-1 letter: backout, outback.

-2 letters: cobalt.

-3 letters: about, baulk, black, bloat, block, bucko, caulk, cloak, clout, octal, taluk, tubal.

-4 letters: abut, alto, auto, back, balk, blat, bloc, blot, boat, bock, bola, bolt, bota, bout, buck, bulk, calk, calo, caul, clot, club, coal, coat, cola, colt, cult, kola, lack, loca, lock, lota, lout, luck, tabu, tack, taco.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-k-l-o-t-u"
 

+1 letter: blackouts.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Black Out


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6C 61 63 6B      4F 75 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01001111 01110101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#32 &#79 &#117 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 0063 006B      004F 0075 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36786769772498786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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