Something for the hive to mull over.
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Oct 23, 2018
This week’s theme
Words related to the eye
This week’s words
prosopopeia
ullage
ullage
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ullage
PRONUNCIATION:
(UL-ij)
MEANING:
noun: The amount of liquid by which a container falls short of being full.
ETYMOLOGY:
>From Old French ouillage/eullage, from ouiller/eullier (to fill a cask),
from ouil (eye, hole), from Latin oculus (eye). Earliest documented use:
1444.
USAGE:
“Too much ullage can be a sign of evaporation, and that’s not good.”
Mark Shanahan; A Finely Honed Palate; Boston Globe; Oct 17, 2015.
See more usage examples of ullage in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go
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