Talk:washout

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washout

Verb without any inflected forms: "To wash something out."

There are many occurrences of "to washout". Most are nouns, including all before 1980. After 1980, I suspect that unsupervised spelling correction and not-too-sophisticated spelling correction has led to some substitution of washout for wash out. I personally wouldn't be convinced by anything other than instances of the inflected forms, but perhaps someone can produce other arguments and/or evidence. DCDuring TALK 23:23, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Like the ubiquitous "click here to login"; see also our dubious verb entry for strikethrough. I would prefer to see this gone, because I think most users would agree it was wrong if made to think about it, but I don't suppose that's a tenable reason here. Equinox ◑ 20:09, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Failed. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 20:27, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Countability

@Equinox: regarding this edit, which are the uncountable senses? Thanks. — Sgconlaw (talk) 01:38, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

There is at least one: the meteorology sense. Equinox ◑ 01:39, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

@Equinox: hmmm, I would have thought it is countable too: “The rainy days caused a washout of the haze particles.” — Sgconlaw (talk) 01:42, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Examples: "negligible washout" (no determiner present); "Washout coefficients were calculated as a function of the rainfall intensity". Equinox ◑ 01:45, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

@Equinox: I guess we need to find some quotations. Thanks. — Sgconlaw (talk) 01:47, 24 December 2023 (UTC)