outlets
- 1Plural of outlet.
The river drains into the sea through two narrow outlets.
Local news outlets covered the protest from early morning.
Note
A regular plural, made by adding -s, and it serves every meaning the singular carries: vents and passages, rivers running out of a lake, shops selling one maker's goods, and wall sockets. The figurative meaning pluralizes just as easily, so a person can have several outlets for restless energy or frustration. Only the surrounding words tell the reader whether outlets are openings, streams, stores or sockets.
outlets is a form of outlet
outlet, noun: A socket in a wall, wired to the electrical supply, where devices can be plugged in to get power. Full entry
- Forms
- outletoutlets plural
- Spelling
- outlet → outlets: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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