washout
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From the verb wash out.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
washout (plural washouts)
- An appliance designed to wash something out.
- The cistern was fitted with washouts and air-valves.
- (biology, medicine) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
- (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
- A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water.
- (colloquial) A disappointment or total failure; an unsuccessful person.
- As an actor, he was a complete washout, so he went back to accounting.
- A sporting fixture that could not be completed because of rain.
- The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing
Verb [edit]
- To wash something out.
