Oct 23, 2018

This week’s theme

Words related to the eye 

This week’s words

prosopopeia

ullage

ullage

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A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

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 hand in hand. -Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (23 Oct 1899-1989)