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Outage vs Sandwich - What's the difference?

outage | sandwich |

As nouns the difference between outage and sandwich

is that outage is a temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply while sandwich is sandwich.

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

    sandwich

    English

    (wikipedia sandwich) (Structured composite sandwich)

    Noun

    (es)
  • A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other food.
  • (by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Hyponyms

    * hamburger, burger * -burger * patty melt

    Derived terms

    {{der3, club sandwich , Dagwood sandwich , Dutch sandwich , knuckle sandwich , open sandwich , sandwich spread , sandwich board , sandwichable , sandwichy , soup sandwich}}

    Descendants

    * Arabic: * Catalan: (l) * Chinese: *: Mandarin: * Czech: * Danish: (l) * Dutch: (l) * English: (l) (eye dialect) * Esperanto: * French: (l) *: Norman French: (l) * German: (l) * Greek: * Hawaiian: (l) * Hindi: * Hungarian: (l) * Japanese: * Jèrriais: (l) * Korean: * Marshallese: * Norwegian: (l) * Persian: * Portuguese: (Brazil), (l) (Portugal) * Romanian: * Russian: * Serbo-Croatian: *: Cyrillic: *: Roman: * Sinhalese: * Slovene: * Spanish: * Swedish: (l) * Turkish: * Urdu: * Vietnamese: * Volapük:

    Verb

    (es)
  • To place one item between two other, usually flat, items
  • (figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=April 11 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley. }}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

    • Usage notes

    * The adjective sense is used primarily by restaurants specializing in barbeque, and does not imply that the meal includes an actual sandwich. English eponyms English refractory feminine rhymes ----