'blackout' definitions:
Definition of 'blackout'
(from WordNet)
noun
A suspension of radio or tv broadcasting
noun
Darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) [syn: blackout, brownout, dimout]
noun
The failure of electric power for a general region
noun
A momentary loss of consciousness
noun
Partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening" [syn: amnesia, memory loss, blackout]
Definition of 'blackout'
From: GCIDE
- blackout \blackout\ n.
- 1. a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. any darkness resulting from the extinction of lights. [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. the failure of electric power for a general region sufficient to extinguish all normal lighting.
- Syn: brownout, dimout. [WordNet 1.5]
- 4. a momentary loss of consciousness. [WordNet 1.5]
- 5. partial or total loss of memory. he has a total blackout for events of the evening
- Syn: amnesia, memory loss. [WordNet 1.5]
- 6. a period during which artificial lighting is forbidden, as in a city as a precaution against an air raid. [PJC]
- 7. (Theater) the darkening of all stage lights, as at then end of a performance or between acts. [PJC]
- 8. suppression of information distribution; as, there was a blackout on news from the military for the first day of the Gulf War. [PJC]
- 9. the prohibition of the broadcasting of a sports event, such as a boxing match or football game, sometimes confined to one particular area. It is usually done to encourage sales of tickets to the event. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'blackout'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agnosia,
- amnesia,
- anoxia,
- asteroids,
- aurora particles,
- bamboo curtain,
- barrier of secrecy,
- blocking,
- brownout,
- catalepsy,
- catatonia,
- catatony,
- censorship,
- coma,
- cosmic particles,
- cosmic ray bombardment,
- curtain,
- dematerialization,
- departure,
- dimout,
- disappearance,
- disappearing,
- dispersion,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- dissolving,
- eclipse,
- elimination,
- erasure,
- evanescence,
- evaporation,
- extinction,
- fadeaway,
- fadeout,
- fading,
- faint,
- fugue,
- going,
- grayout,
- hush-up,
- intergalactic matter,
- iron curtain,
- ironbound security,
- kayo,
- knockout,
- KO,
- lipothymia,
- lipothymy,
- loss of memory,
- melting,
- meteor dust impacts,
- meteors,
- nirvana,
- nirvana principle,
- nothingness,
- oath of secrecy,
- oblivion,
- obliviousness,
- occultation,
- official secrecy,
- pall,
- passing,
- pressure suit,
- radiation,
- repression,
- seal of secrecy,
- security,
- semiconsciousness,
- senselessness,
- sleep,
- smothering,
- space bullets,
- stifling,
- stupor,
- suppression,
- swoon,
- syncope,
- the bends,
- unconsciousness,
- vanishing,
- vanishing point,
- veil,
- veil of secrecy,
- weightlessness,
- wipe,
- word deafness,
- wraps