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Definition: Ullage |
UllageNoun1. The amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Ullage \Ul"lage\, noun. [Old French expression eullage, ovillage, the filling up of cask, from ouillier, oillier, euillier, to fill wine cask; properly, to add oil to prevent evaporation, as to flask that is nearly full, from the Old French expression oile oil. See Oil.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | The amount that a container, such as a fuel tank, lacks of being full. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The empty space above the surface of the liquid or the wine in a container, particularly in a cask. The term head space is applied more to the space in bottles. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Depth of space above the free surface of the fluid. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Shipping | The space not filled with liquid in a drum or tank. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contents | Noun: contents; cargo, lading, freight, shipment, load, bale, burden, jag; cartload, shipload; cup of, basket of; (receptacle) of; inside.; stuffing, ullage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "ullage": ullage and retrorocket. 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 |
ullage | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ullage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fuçi e pambushur plot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | النقص في شبه زجاجة ممتلئة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | утечка (leak, leakage), недостиг (deficit, famine, insufficiency, lack, privation, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, stringency, want), липса (absence, default, defect, deficiency, failure, lack, penury, poverty, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, stringency, want). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ullage, tomrum (head space), headspace (headspace, outage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ullage, wan (electric fan, ventilator), kopruimte (headspace, outage), inhoud van ledig deel (head space). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vapaa tila (clearance, empty state, headspace, outage, vacant state), vajaus (deficit, shortage), tyhjä tila (empty state, feedthrough, head space, interlevel via hole, pores, space, vacancy, vacant state, via, via hole, void), ilmatila (air territory, airspace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | volume mort, volume d'expansion, vide, vidange, manquant, garde de sécurité, garde, espace vide. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schwund (atrophy, decline, decrease, depletion, dwindling, fading, loss, shrinkage, wastage, waste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ελεύθερος χώρος (clearance, headspace, outage), διάκενο δεξαμενής. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | apadás (decrease, diminution, shrinkage, wane, waning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vuoto (bare, blank, blankness, devoid, emptiness, empty, empty space, frothily, frothy, gap, hollow, shallow, space, vacancy, vacant, vacuous, vacuum, vide, void), volume di espansione, spazio vuoto sul pelo libero, spazio libero (clearance, gap, headroom, headspace, outage), liquido mancante al riempimento. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ullish. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ageullay vazio (addle, bare, blank, blankness, chasm, claptrap, concave, emptiness, empty, hollow, inane, unoccupied, vacancy, vacuity, vacuous, vacuum, vain, void), esvaziamento (deflation, emptyings), espaço vazio de um tanque, espaço livre (air-gap, clearance), escoamento (flow, leakage, outflow). (various references) утечка (efflux, escape, leak, leakage, outage, seepage, spillage, wastage). (various references) količina tečnosti koje nedostaje da bure bude puno. (various references) volumen de expansión, vacío (bare, blank, devoid, dummy, emptiness, empty, gap, hiatus, hollow, light, vacant, vacuous, vacuum, vast, void), merma (abridgement, decrease, depletion, leak, shrinkage, waste), hueco (airy-fairy, alcove, cave, cavity, chimerical, concave, conceited, empty, fantastic, frivolous, gap, hole, hollow, of fantasy, pocket, recess, vain, void, well), cámara de aire de un tanque, cámara de aire (air chamber, bladder, inner tube, innertube, tube). (various references) gasutrymme (headspace, outage). (various references) fire (leakage, outage, shrinkage, turnover, Wantage, wastage), boş kalan kısım. (various references) фактична кількість рідини, незаповнений об'"м. (various references) sự thau, sự đổ (upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ullage": ullaged, ullages. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ullage": sullage. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ullage": sullages. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ullage" (pronounced 'Ul"lage'): Billage, silage, Stillage, treillage, Village. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-l-u" | |
-1 letter: legal. | |
-2 letters: ague, egal, gale, gall, glue, gull, leal, luge. | |
-3 letters: age, ale, all, eau, ell, gae, gal, gel, gul, lag, lea, leg, leu, lug. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, al, el, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-l-u" | |
+1 letter: gluteal, ligulae, seagull, sullage, ullaged, ullages. | |
+2 letters: aiguille, gallused, galluses, glandule, guerilla, gullable, ligulate, seagulls, sullages, ungalled. | |
+3 letters: aiguilles, colleague, equalling, flagellum, gallinule, glandules, guerillas, guerrilla, laughable, laureling, pupillage, regularly. | |
+4 letters: coagulable, colleagues, flagellums, gallinules, gesturally, glomerular, gracefully, gratefully, guerrillas, langlaufer, laurelling, maquillage, metallurgy, neuroglial, pellagrous, pupillages, seguidilla, spurgalled. | |
+5 letters: aiguillette, aspergillum, aspergillus, bullyragged, changefully, collagenous, eugenically, gladioluses, glamourless, gracefuller, gratefuller, irregularly, keelhauling, langlaufers, legislature, maquillages, quarrelling, regardfully, seguidillas, umbrellaing, unravelling. | |
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