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Impaired vs Outage - What's the difference?

impaired | outage |

As nouns the difference between impaired and outage

is that impaired is a criminal charge for impaired driving while outage is a temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.

As an adjective impaired

is rendered less effective.

As a verb impaired

is (impair).

impaired

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Rendered less effective
    • His impaired driving skill due to alcohol caused the accident.
  • inebriated, drunk.

    • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "impaired" is often applied: vision, hearing, mobility, healing, fertility, health, judgment, cognition, consciousness, memory, concentration, function, performance, ability, capacity, person, child, adult. * Adverbs often applied to "impaired": visually, physically, mentally, emotionally, cognitively.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (impair)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A criminal charge for impaired driving.
    • The cop gave me an impaired .

    outage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage , as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
  • The amount of something lost in storage or transportation.

    • See also

    * dropout * brownout * blackout