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Definition: Power Failure |
Power FailureNoun1. 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 FailureSynonym: power outage (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Power Failure |
| English words defined with "power failure": melt, melting ♦ temporarily, thaw, thawing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "power failure": AIRPORT ELECTRICIAN ♦ car distributor ♦ haulage boss ♦ mine hoist control, motor boss ♦ Non-Maskable Interrupt ♦ passing boss ♦ SUPERVISOR, WATERWORKS ♦ turn keeper ♦ unexpected halt. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Consumer Goods |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "power failure": power failure point. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
power failure light | 14 |
power failure alarm | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 отключение электричества (power cut). (various references) strömavbrott (blackout), elavbrott. (various references) enerji kesintisi (power cut), elektrik kesilmesi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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. 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. | |
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)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000110 01100001 01101001 01101100 01110101 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o w e r   F a i l u r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0077 0065 0072      0046 0061 0069 006C 0075 0072 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5081897184240677578878471 |
| 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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