

Oct 23, 2018 This week’s theme

Words related to the eye



This week’s words

prosopopeia

ullage

trompe l'oeil

ocellus

red-eye



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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:

Mark Shanahan; A Finely Honed Palate; Boston Globe; Oct 17, 2015.



See more usage examples of “Too much ullage can be a sign of evaporation, and that’s not good.”Mark Shanahan; A Finely Honed Palate;; 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)





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