electric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɛktɹɪk/
ipa: /ɪˈlɛktɹɪk/
ipa: /əˈlɛktɹɪk/
ipa: /iˈlɛktɹɪk/
Forms: form: electrick
Etymology: First attested in c. 1646 in a publication by Thomas Browne. From New Latin ēlectricus (“electrical; of amber”), from ēlectr(um) (“amber”) + -icus (“adjectival suffix”); from Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron, “amber”); related to ἠλέκτωρ (ēléktōr, “shining sun”), of unknown origin (see which for more). The Latin term was apparently used first with the sense electrical in 1600 by the English physician and scientist William Gilbert in his work De Magnete.
Senses: examples: text: But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
text: [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.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
text: While Britain continues to argue about how to deliver affordable electrification and decarbonisation, Swiss railways have been 100% electric since the 1960s.
ref: 2022 December 14, Ben Jones, “Switzerland: a template for Northern Powerhouse Rail?”, in RAIL, number 972, page 28:
glosses: Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
glosses: Of or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.
examples: text: A glance from Beatrice—for nothing is so electric as the kindness of sympathy—stopped the tide of bewailings that were gushing forth. "Poor child!" muttered the housekeeper; "but it's no good telling her."
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 278:
text: And bold / Electric Pindar, quick as fear, / With race-dust on his cheeks, and clear / Slant startled eyes that seemed to hear // The chariot rounding the last goal, / to hurtle past it in his soul.
ref: a. 1857, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Vision of Poets”, in Poems, volume I, New York: C. S. Francis & Co., published 1857, pages 195–196:
text: I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.
ref: 1867, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, page 98:
glosses: Emotionally thrilling; electrifying.
Synonyms: electrical
Derived terms: word: acoustic-electric
word: acoustoelectric
word: actinoelectric
word: aeroelectric
word: all-electric
word: anelectric
word: antiferroelectric
word: battery-electric
word: battery electric multiple unit
word: battery electric vehicle
word: bioelectric
word: chemoelectric
word: chromoelectric
word: dielectric
word: diesel-electric
word: dynamo-electric machine
word: electrical
word: electrical engineer
word: electrically
word: electric arc
word: electric arc furnace
word: electric bass
word: electric bassist
word: electric bath
word: electric bicycle
word: electric bike
word: electric blanket
word: electric-blue
word: electric blue
word: electric blues
word: electric boogaloo
word: Electric Boogaloo
word: electric bus
word: electric button
word: electric candle
word: electric car
word: electric carving knife
word: electric catfish
word: electric cellist
word: electric cello
word: electric chair
word: electric charge
word: electric circuit
word: electric current
word: electric daisy
word: electric darts
word: electric dice
word: electric dipole
word: electric discharge
word: electric dulcimer
word: electric duster
word: electric eel
word: electric energy
word: electric engine
word: electric eraser
word: electric eye
word: electric fence
word: electric field
word: electric fire
word: electric fish
word: electric flower car
word: electric flux
english: power grid
translation: power grid
word: electric grid
word: electric guitar
word: electric guitarist
word: electric gun
word: electric harp
word: electric harpist
word: electricize
word: electric Jew
word: electric knife
word: electric light
word: electric light bug
word: electric lock pick
word: electric locomotive
word: electric main
word: electric meter
word: electric motor
word: electric multiple unit
word: electricness
word: electric organ
word: electric pen
word: electric piano
word: electric potential
word: electric potential difference
word: electric power transmission
word: electric pressure
word: electric ray
word: electric razor
word: electric rickshaw
word: electric sail
word: electric scooter
word: electric shaver
word: electric shock
word: electric shower
word: electric sitar
word: electric sitarist
word: electric skateboard
word: electric soup
word: electric tape
word: electric tit
word: electric train
word: electric unicycle
word: electric vehicle
word: electric violin
word: electric violinist
word: electric window
word: electrify
word: electrion
word: electron
word: ferrielectric
word: ferroelectric
word: flexoelectric
word: geoelectric
word: geothermoelectric
word: gravitoelectric
word: gyroelectric
word: helioelectric
word: heliohydroelectric
word: hybrid electric vehicle
word: hydroelectric
word: hydro-electric
word: hyperferroelectric
word: idioelectric
word: isoelectric
word: magnetoelectric
word: mechanoelectric
word: microelectric
word: morphoelectric
word: myoelectric
word: neighborhood electric vehicle
word: neighbourhood electric vehicle
word: neuroelectric
word: nonelectric
word: non-electric
word: nuclear-electric rocket
word: optoelectric
word: paraelectric
word: petrol-electric
word: photoelectric
word: piezoelectric
word: preelectric
word: pyroelectric
word: radioelectric
word: resino-electric
word: spectroelectric
word: stereoelectric
word: telelectric
word: thermoelectric
word: triboelectric
word: turboelectric
word: unelectric
word: vitreo-electric
word: volta-electric