Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word WASHOUT

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Definitions of WASHOUT

1. An appliance designed to wash something out.
2. A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water.
3. A breach in a road or railway caused by flooding.
4. The cleaning of the inside of a (locomotive) boiler to remove scale (limescale).
5. A sporting fixture or other event that could not be completed because of rain.
6. The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
7. An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
8. (biology, medicine) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
9. (medicine) A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to wash out of the person before the second treatment begins.
10. (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
11. (informal) A disappointment or total failure; an unsuccessful person.

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Examples of Using WASHOUT in a Sentence

• Boaters are advised to exit the river and reembark on the other side of the dam rather than traverse the washout.
• The wing was designed with 3° of washout, from the root to the flap–aileron junction, to prevent the ailerons from stalling before the centre section of the wing.
• If the icing is waved off, the official lowers their arm and gives the washout signal (extending both arms sideways from the body at shoulder height, similar to the "safe" sign in baseball but typically delivered from a less-crouched or fully upright position).
• Large segments have been abandoned in recent years: most of the line from Monon southeast to Indianapolis, the line north from Monon to Michigan City, and the line segment between Cloverdale and Bedford (this segment was abandoned due largely to a washout).
• A washout is the sudden erosion of soft soil or other support surfaces by a gush of water, usually occurring during a heavy downpour of rain (a flash flood) or other stream flooding.
• In April the Housatonic began to serve Becton, Dickinson and Company, a plastics plant in Canaan, but almost immediately the line was severed at Falls Village by a washout, not repaired until 14 months later.
• Capabilities include: industrial services support; ammunition maintenance, renovation, disassembly and demilitarization; thermal arc coating for Air Force bombs; water washout facility with flaker belt; molten salt research and development; ultrasonic testing for mortar ammunition; chemical material surveillance; quality assurance and joint logistics support; and ammunition life cycle management.
• EFs 30036 and 30088 were withdrawn from service following a derailment caused by a washout at Oio (north of Raurimu) on 7 August 1991 that also killed the locomotive engineer.
• Chordwise twisting loads due to aerodynamic effects at high airspeeds often associated with washout, and the use of ailerons resulting in control reversal.
• During tight turns the "twist" or washout designed into the wing by Reginald Mitchell meant that the wing root would stall before the wingtips, creating the shuddering and clattering referred to.
• Stronger Boxpok type 'B' wheels had been installed on a number of VR locomotive classes in the late 1940s, but they had the disadvantage of being relatively heavy and also restricted maintenance access to axleboxes, underslung springs, and in some cases boiler washout plugs.
• This method allows a wider choice of wing planform than sweepback and washout, and designs have included straight and even circular (Arup) wings.
• Installation of winglets may necessitate greater aerodynamic washout in order to provide the required resistance to spinning, or to optimise the spanwise lift distribution.
• Vibration and jerking of the pipe may be applied to encourage slumping and levelling of the upper surface of the pour, and the tremie may need to be raised occasionally during the pour so that the bottom end is not too deeply embedded, but the pipe must not be moved sufficiently to break clear of the mound and expose the bottom opening to the water, as this would allow washout of cement.
• All the tail surfaces had the same airfoil (flat), planform (minor difference with different tailwheels), washout (none), distance from the wing and incidence to the fuselage.
• The flexible wings were also claimed to produce a dampening effect called "apative washout" that would allow the UAS to be flown in heavy wind gusts.
• Freight service between the Manchester railyard and the airport continued until 1989, when a severe washout crippled the railbed just north of Goffs Falls Road in South Manchester.
• Due to further issues on the Chandler Subdivision, including a washout just east of the tunnel at Port Daniel, as well as structural flaws in the Haldimand Bridge near Douglastown, VIA again returned to a bus service on 13 August 2013.
• May 29, 1984 – United States – Connellsville, Pennsylvania: The Amtrak Capitol Limited derailed following a railbed washout, injuring 23.
• "Washout" is where tissue loads radiocontrast during arterial phase, but then returns to a rather hypodense state in venous or later phases.

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