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Outlet   /ˈaʊtlˌɛt/   Listen
Outlet

noun
1.
A place of business for retailing goods.  Synonyms: mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet.
2.
Receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices.  Synonyms: electric outlet, electric receptacle, electrical outlet, wall plug, wall socket.
3.
An opening that permits escape or release.  Synonyms: exit, issue, way out.  "The canyon had only one issue"
4.
Activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion.  Synonyms: release, vent.  "He gave vent to his anger"



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"Outlet" Quotes from Famous Books



... this place our forefathers made for man! This is the process of our love and wisdom To each poor brother who offends against us— Most innocent, perhaps—and what if guilty? Is this the only cure? Merciful God! Each pore and natural outlet shrivell'd up By ignorance and parching poverty, His energies roll back upon his heart, And stagnate and corrupt; till changed to poison, They break out on him, like a loathsome plague spot. Then we call in our pamper'd mountebanks— ...
— Lyrical Ballads, With Other Poems, 1800, Vol. I. • William Wordsworth

... Ottawa River are unknown.[143] It rises to importance at the outlet from Lake Temiscaming, 350 miles west of its junction with the St. Lawrence.[144] Beyond the Falls and Portage des Allumettes, 110 miles above Hull, this stream has been little explored. There it is divided into two channels by a large island fifteen miles ...
— The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Warburton

... cathedral is to be built, or an exhibition to be supported, the state gladly sanctions big lottery schemes to secure the financial means. The European governments argue that a certain amount of gambling instinct is ingrained in human character, and that it is wiser to create a kind of official outlet by which it is held within narrow limits, and by which the results yielded are ...
— Psychology and Social Sanity • Hugo Muensterberg

... these walks to the column a curious circumstance occurred. It was evening, and she was coming as usual down through the sighing plantation, choosing her way between the ramparts of the camp towards the outlet giving upon the field, when suddenly in a dusky vista among the fir-trunks she saw, or thought she saw, a golden-haired, toddling child. The child moved a step or two, and vanished behind a tree. Lady Constantine, fearing it ...
— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy

... military power of an enemy who is in secret alliance with the evil influences of the earth; if we do not here and now, by an irrevocable compact, forearm ourselves against our sense of pity and generosity, our weakness, our imprudence, our future rivalries and discords; if we leave a single outlet to the beast at bay; if, through our negligence, we give it a single hope, a single opportunity of coming to the surface and taking breath, then the vigilant fatality which has but one fixed idea will ...
— The Wrack of the Storm • Maurice Maeterlinck


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