electric
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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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.
Base: ēlectrum
Affixes: -icus
Inflected forms:
form: electrick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: electrics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: electrick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
[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.
While Britain continues to argue about how to deliver affordable electrification and decarbonisation, Swiss railways have been 100% electric since the 1960s.
gloss: Of or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Emotionally thrilling; electrifying.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: 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."
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.
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.
gloss: Electricity; the electricity supply.
pos: noun
tags: informal
usually
with-definite-article
examples: We had to sit in the dark because the electric was cut off.
gloss: An electric powered version of something that was originally or is more commonly not electric.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
rare
examples: Equally I can stand in a station like Lucerne in Switzerland, and watch with ill-concealed admiration the majestic entry of one of the latest Gotthard "Ae 6/6" electrics, packing 6,000 horsepower within its 60 ft. of length and 121 tons of weight, with its sleek dark green sides and handsome stainless steel bands and front wings.
There were electric vehicles around, but four-wheel drive electrics were pretty damned rare, and the snow was deep enough to stop anything that didn't have a minimum of four big wheels spinning at all times.
gloss: An electric powered version of something that was originally or is more commonly not electric.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The beautiful VIOlight bathroom unit takes up very little space (it's about the size of a cup), yet it holds up to 4 toothbrushes - even electrics!
gloss: An electric powered version of something that was originally or is more commonly not electric.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Richard's old Olivetti electric had been put aside for the time being on top of one of the filing cabinets. “It serves the purpose,” Richard said. He nodded at the word processor.
gloss: A substance or object which can be electrified; an insulator or non-conductor, like amber or glass.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: Fencing with the use of a body wire, box, and related equipment to detect when a weapon has touched an opponent.
pos: noun
Derived words: battery electric multiple unit
battery electric vehicle
Brazilian electric shower
dynamo-electric machine
electrical
electrically
electric arc
electric bass
electric bath
electric bicycle
electric bike
electric blanket
electric-blue
electric blue
electric blues
electric boogaloo
Electric Boogaloo
electric bus
electric button
electric candle
electric car
electric carving knife
electric catfish
electric cellist
electric cello
electric chair
electric charge
electric circuit
electric current
electric daisy
electric darts
electric dice
electric dipole
electric discharge
electric dulcimer
electric duster
electric eel
electric energy
electric engine
electric eraser
electric eye
electric fence
electric field
electric fire
electric fish
electric flower car
electric flux
electric grid
electric guitar
electric guitarist
electric gun
electric harp
electric harpist
electricize
electric Jew
electric knife
electric light
electric light bug
electric lock pick
electric locomotive
electric main
electric meter
electric motor
electric multiple unit
electricness
electric organ
electric pen
electric piano
electric potential
electric power transmission
electric pressure
electric ray
electric razor
electric rickshaw
electric sail
electric scooter
electric shaver
electric shock
electric shower
electric sitar
electric skateboard
electric soup
electric tape
electric tit
electric torch
electric train
electric unicycle
electric vehicle
electric violin
electric window
electrify
electrion
electron
hybrid electric vehicle
neighborhood electric vehicle
neighbourhood electric vehicle
nuclear-electric rocket
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