Power Failure

  

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Power Failure

Definition: Power Failure

Power Failure

Noun

1. Equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails; "the ice storm caused a power outage".

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


Synonym: Power Failure

Synonym: power outage (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Power Failure

English words defined with "power failure": melt, meltingtemporarily, thaw, thawing. (references)
Specialty definitions using "power failure": AIRPORT ELECTRICIANcar distributorhaulage bossmine hoist control, motor bossNon-Maskable Interruptpassing bossSUPERVISOR, WATERWORKSturn keeperunexpected halt. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Power Failure

DomainTitle

Consumer Goods

  • American Tack 71136 3-Way Power Failure Light (reference)

  • Garrity Industries E300G Power Failure Rechargeable Flashlight (reference)

  • Intermatic PR3C Emergency Power Failure Safety Light (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

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Expression: Power Failure

Expression using "power failure": power failure point. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Power Failure

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

power failure light

14

power failure alarm

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Power Failure

Language Translations for "power failure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏إنقطاع التيار الكهربائي (outage, power cut). (various references)

   

Czech

  

přerušení dodávky (power cut). (various references)

   

French

  

panne de courante. (various references)

   

German

  

stromausfall (blackout, power blackout, power cut). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

διακοπή ισχύος-κώδωνες εξωτερικής γραμμής (power failure-external line bells). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hajtómû meghibásodási pont (power failure point). (various references)

   

Italian

  

guasto a linea elettrica. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

漏電 (leakage, short circuit). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ろうで" (leakage, short circuit). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owerpay ailurefay

   

Russian 

  

отключение электричества (power cut). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

strömavbrott (blackout), elavbrott. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

enerji kesintisi (power cut), elektrik kesilmesi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Power Failure

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-l-o-p-r-r-u-w"

-3 letters: firepower, flowerier.

-4 letters: airpower, flowerer, pearlier, pilferer, powerful, profiler, reflower, weariful.

-5 letters: airflow, alewife, aureole, earlier, failure, ferrule, ferulae, filaree, flareup, flawier, forepaw, frailer, leafier, learier, parlour, parolee, peafowl, pearler, peloria, peroral, pleurae, prefile, prefire, prelife, profile, prowler, puerile, replier, repower, roupier, wearier, welfare.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Power Failure


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

50 6F 77 65 72      46 61 69 6C 75 72 65

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

    

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

01010000 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000110 01100001 01101001 01101100 01110101 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#119 &#101 &#114 &#32 &#70 &#97 &#105 &#108 &#117 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0077 0065 0072      0046 0061 0069 006C 0075 0072 0065

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

5081897184240677578878471

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INDEX

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


  

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