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<b>This week’s theme</b><br>
Words related to the eye
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<b>This week’s words</b><br>
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<a href="https://wordsmith.org/words/ullage.html"
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<div style="font-size:19px;">A.Word.A.Day</div>
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ullage
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<div style="font-family:Verdana; color:#555555; font-size:13px;">PRONUNCIATION:</div>
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(UL-ij)
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<div style="font-family:Verdana; color:#555555; font-size:13px;">MEANING:</div>
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<i>noun</i>: The amount of liquid by which a container falls
short of being full.
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<div style="font-family:Verdana; color:#555555; font-size:13px;">ETYMOLOGY:</div>
<div style="margin-left: 20px;"> From Old French ouillage/eullage,
from ouiller/eullier (to fill a cask), from
ouil (eye, hole), from Latin oculus (eye). Earliest documented
use: 1444.
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<div style="font-family:Verdana; color:#555555; font-size:13px;">USAGE:</div>
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“Too much ullage can be a sign of evaporation, and that’s not
good.”<br>
Mark Shanahan; A Finely Honed Palate; <i>Boston Globe</i>; Oct
17, 2015.
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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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