Word Finder - electric

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(usually with definite article) Electricity; the electricity supply.

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We had to sit in the dark because the electric was cut off.

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An electric car.

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An electric toothbrush.

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A substance or object which can be electrified; an insulator or non-conductor, like amber or glass.

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Fencing with the use of a body wire, box, and related equipment to detect when a weapon has touched an opponent.

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Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.

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Of or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.

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Being emotionally thrilling; electrifying.

I paid the electric and water bill this week.

I know it's him; he was riding around on his electric bike.

The electric company has probably been working all night.

His touch was like an electric shock, forcing her heart to pound.

The only sound in the apartment was the quiet whir of an electric clock.

In order to get rid of hydrogen, some oxygen is added to the helium, and the mixture exploded by an electric spark.

Suddenly an electric shock seemed to run through Natasha's whole being.

The electric lamp a gives illumination of the webs in a dark field, nearly in the manner described for the Cape transit circle micrometer; the intensity of illumination is regulated by a carbon-resistance controlled by the screw b.

It looks so nice on that electric blue.

The coolness of his touch turned to gentle electric currents that worked their paths through her skull.

I could not in one hundred lifetimes make a working electric lamp, even knowing what I know now.

There was no other purr aside from the constant, low hum similar to the hum surrounding electric wires.

You must be ill to shiver like that, he added, noticing that Prince Andrew winced as at an electric shock.

By the time she reached the cliff Jule indicated the next day, Yully's soul was humming like an electric wire.

One hundred years ago the stream was damned by the Ouray Electric Power and Light Company.

In dry weather the electric potential in the atmosphere is normally positive relative to the earth, and increases with the height.

Hitherto the large bill for electric energy has debarred the general use of electrical heating, in spite of its numerous advantages.

It has a motor... an electric motor and he's on a narrow trail!

His touch turned electric, and his magic skimmed her blood.

The air between them was electric, her breathing uneven.

The city owns its water-supply system and owns and operates its gas plant; an electric plant, privately owned, lights the streets and many houses.

At its falls from Lake of the Woods is one of the greatest and most easily utilized water-powers in the world, and from falls lower down the river electric power for the city of Winnipeg is obtained.

The iceman delivered ice for your icebox until the electric freezer put him out of business.

I told him we were trying to trace the electric bike by its model but asked about checking hospitals.

I've got the name of a sex offender who bought a Volt Wheel electric bike in Oxnard, California.

Every morning she shaved him with an electric razor.

Kiki whirled from his position before the hearth, his oriental features set off by electric turquoise eyes.

It is served by the Grand Trunk railway and by two electric lines to Detroit.

It is served by the Missouri Pacific, the St Louis & San Francisco, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, and the Kansas City Southern railways, and by interurban electric lines.

And this is when he is carried out of himself, when the discordant qualities of his genius are, so to say, fused together by the electric spark of an immediate inspiration.

He also made important contributions to the mathematical theory of electrodynamics, and in papers published in 1845 and 1847 established mathematically the laws of the induction of electric currents.

From it the exact time is conveyed each day at one o'clock by electric signal to the chief towns throughout the country; British and the majority of foreign geographers reckon longitude from its meridian.

The city has extensive manufactures of heavy machinery, electric supplies, brass and copper products and silk goods.

It is served by the Morris & Essex division of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railway and by the Orange branch of the Erie (the former having three stations in the city - Grove Street, East Orange and Brick Church), and is connected with Newark, Orange and West Orange by electric line.

Of late years many experiments have been made on the influence of electric fields or currents on plant growth.

Yeah, he was on a bike but it wasn't electric.

The line crossing Australia which was thus explored has since been occupied by the electric telegraph connecting Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and other Australian cities with London.

It is served by the Maine Central railway, by several electric lines, and by steamboat lines to Portland, Boston and several other ports.

During the three years he held this position he carried out researches on the contact of elastic solids, hardness, evaporation and the electric discharge in gases, the last earning him the special commendation of Helmholtz.

Belleville is served by the Illinois Central, the Louisville & Nashville, and the Southern railways, also by extensive interurban electric systems; and a belt line to O'Fallon, Illinois, connects Belleville with the Baltimore & Ohio South Western railway.

It is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway, and is primarily a residential suburb of Boston, with which it is connected by electric lines.

Manchester is served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway and by electric line connecting with Hartford, Rockville and Stafford Springs.

It is served by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railway, and by the Oneonta & Mohawk Valley electric line connecting with the New York Central railway at Herkimer.

The different kinds of motive power used to actuate cranes - manual, steam, hydraulic, electric - give a further classification.

The electric transmission of energy can be performed with an efficiency not reached by any other method, and the electric motor readily adapts itself to cranes.

For dock-side jib cranes the use of electric power is making rapid strides.

For many years the best workshop travellers were those driven by quick running ropes; these performed admirable service, but they have given place to the more modern electric traveller.

In electric cranes a useful method is to arrange the connexions so that the lifting motor acts as a dynamo, and, driven by the energy of the falling load, generates a current which is converted into heat by being passed through resistances.

The apparatus for generating the electric action at one end is commonly called the transmitting apparatus or instrument, or the sending apparatus or instrument, or sometimes simply the transmitter or sender.

The next class of wave or oscillation detector is the magnetic detector depending upon the power of electric oscillations to affect the magnetic state of iron.