BLACK-OUT

Domain	Definition
Electrical Engineering	The suppression of the picture signal from a short time before, until a short time after, the synchronising pulse. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A black out is a large-scale electrical failure in which electricity is cut off to a significantly sized residencial area.

Black outs are characterized by their sudden and unexpected nature, and the term refers to the sudden shutting off of all the lights in a building, leaving the occupants in total darkness.

Crosswords: BLACK-OUT

Non-English Usage: "BLACK-OUT" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (blackout).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Black-Out (1977)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Lucile Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service, working on black-out lamps to be used on the gasoline trailers in the Air Force, Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisc. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"BLACK-OUT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.67% of the time. "BLACK-OUT" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	96.67%	29	64,444
Adjective (general or positive)	3.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	30	N/A

Language		Translations for "BLACK-OUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		slukning (blanking, extinction, quenching, suppression, turn-off). (various references)

Dutch		beeldsignaalonderdrukking (blanking, suppression), onderdrukking (blanking, mute, suppression). (various references)

Finnish		sammutus (extinguishing, fire fighting, putting out). (various references)

French		suppression du faisceau (blanking), suppression (blanking), signal de suppression (blanking), effacement (blanking). (various references)

German		Unterdrueckung (blanking, suppression), Austastung (blanking, palpation, suppression). (various references)

Greek		σήμα πλήρους διακοπής (blanking, suppression), σήμα αμαύρωσης (blanking, suppression). (various references)

Hungarian		hírzárlat (news black-out), eszméletvesztés (faint), elsötétítés (blackout, dim out, eclipse, wipe), összeköttetés megszűnése. (various references)

Italian		soppressione del fascio (blanking, suppression), mascheramento del fascio (blanking, suppression), cancellazione del fascio (blanking, suppression), cancellazione (abatement, annulment, cancellation, deletion, effacement). (various references)

Manx		lane-dorraghey. (various references)

Pig Latin		ack-outblay

Portuguese		supressão do feixe (blanking, suppression), supressão (cut, delete, effacement, obliteration, omission, stopping, suppression). (various references)

Russian		затемнение;обморок затемненный;засекреченный. (various references)

Spanish		borrado (deleted, drafted, erased), supresión del haz (blanking, suppression), supresión (abatement, abolition, cancellation, deletion, omission, removal, suppression). (various references)

Swedish		släckning (extinction, quenching). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự thoáng mất trí nhớ, sự tắt đèn, sự kín ánh đèn, sự ỉm đi, ỉm đi (conspiracy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

BLACK-OUT

Specialty Definition: BLACK-OUT

Electrical Engineering

Specialty Definition: Black-out

Crosswords: BLACK-OUT

Modern Usage: BLACK-OUT

Movie/TV Titles

Photo Album: BLACK-OUT

Usage Frequency: BLACK-OUT

Modern Translation: BLACK-OUT

Danish

Dutch

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Italian

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Spanish

Swedish

Vietnamese

Anagrams: BLACK-OUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

INDEX