Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, producing, or operated by electricity: electric current; an electrical appliance.
- adj. Of or related to sound created or altered by an electrical or electronic device.
- adj. Amplified by an electronic device: an electric guitar.
- adj. Emotionally exciting; thrilling: gave an electric reading of the play.
- adj. Exceptionally tense; highly charged with emotion: an atmosphere electric with suspicion.
- n. An electrically powered machine or vehicle: The lawn mower is an electric.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Containing electricity, or capable of exhibiting it when excited by friction: as, an electric body, such as amber or glass.
- Pertaining to or consisting in electricity: as, electric power; an electric discharge.
- Derived from or produced by electricity: as, an electric shock; an electric light.
- Conveying electricity; producing electricity; communicating a shock by electricity: as, an electric machine; electric wires; the electric eel or fish.
- Operated by electricity: as, an electric bell; an electric railway.
- Figuratively, full of fire, spirit, or passion, and capable of communicating it to others; magnetic.
- n. A body or substance capable of exhibiting electricity by means of friction or otherwise, and of resisting the passage of it from one body to another. See electricity.
- See motor.
- n. A railway or car operated by electricity: usually in the plural.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
- adj. Of, or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.
- adj. Being emotionally thrilling; electrifying.
- n. An electric car.
- n. A substance or object which can be electrified; an insulator or non-conductor, like amber or glass.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by, electricity
- adj. Capable of occasioning the phenomena of electricity.
- adj. Electrifying; thrilling; magnetic.
- adj. powered by electricity.
- n. A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a car that is powered by electricity
- adj. affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling.
- adj. using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity
- adj. (of a situation) exceptionally tense
Etymologies
- New Latin ēlectricus, deriving from amber, as by rubbing, from Latin ēlectrum, amber, from Greek ēlektron.
Examples
“However, with incomparably higher frequencies, which we may yet find means to produce efficiently, and provided that electric impulses of such high frequencies could be transmitted through a conductor, the electrical characteristics of the brush discharge would completely vanish -- no spark would pass, no shock would be felt -- yet we would still have to deal with an _electric_ phenomenon, but in the broad, modern interpretation of the word.”
Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency
“The term electric radiation was first employed by Hertz to designate waves emitted by a Leyden jar or oscillator system of an induction coil, but since that time these radiations have been known as Hertzian waves.”
“I had two thoughts when I first heard the phrase "electric sundown.”
“As Matouse said the Rapalla electric is a good knife for bulk work.”
What is the best fillet knife to purchase? I have a couple but they need sharpened so often.
“Some of us are not driving, some are trading in SUVs for hybrids, and some are looking in a completely different direction, towards what they call electric cars.”
“This is the dazzling bright light which we call electric light.”
“_ So, when the conductor is not so good; when a large wire is reduced suddenly to a small one; when a good conductor, such as copper, has a section of resisting conduction, such as carbon; heat and light are at once evolved at that point, and there is produced what we know as the electric light.”
“That electromotive force acting on a dielectric produces what we call electric displacement.”
“_Judging from facts only_, there is not as yet the slightest reason for considering the influence which is present in what we call the electric current, -- whether in metals or fused bodies or humid conductors, or even in air, flame, and rarefied elastic media, -- as a compound or complicated influence.”
“Invest in electric car technology and buy a hybrid.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘electric’.
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color (multi)
tiara's color lists rebuilt :)
( visual, colors, multi, descriptive, randomness )pastel, rainbow, gemstone, crystals, ore, minerals, elements, neon, northern lights, fur, sunset, sunrise and 98 more...
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ze list
favorites, of all sorts
obscure, pretentious, debacle, vintage, ostentatious, damsel, plethora, requiem, memoir, loathe, lackadaisical, misanthropic and 82 more...
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Blues
cerulean, azure, cobalt, lapus lazuli, periwinkle, denim, ultramarine, sapphire, cyan, bleu, azzurro, democrats and 14 more...
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Vurtchester
Words thought of by thinking about Jeff Noon.
sexy, madchester, bass, feather, slick, vaz, rain, rainbow, electric, dub, fetish, yellow and 10 more...
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It's Electric!
I get a charge out of these words.
galvanometer, acierage, actino-electricity, agometer, amperage, ampere, antilogous, cataphoric, ceraunics, coulomb, cymaphen, deflagrator and 40 more...
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pretty
pretty words.
nymph, silhouette, cosmic, pixie, illumination, serendipity, starlight, wanderlust, moon, Lyra, lullaby, effervescent and 24 more...
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Green
olive, grass, dark green, light green, emerald, lime, moss, sea green, jade, asparagus, apple green, camouflage green and 17 more...
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I Got The Blues
Always my favorite color, and it comes in so many shades.
cyan, azure, cobalt, navy, sky, midnight, aqua, powder, blue, sapphire, cerulean, aquamarine and 5 more...
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onomatopoeias (3 or more syllables)
3+ syllable words that mean what they sound like. (dictionaried or un-dictionaried | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (1 syllable) | onomatopoeias (2 syllables) -
Behaviors
Words that describe human behavior and are associated with electromagnetism.
resonate, magnetic, resistant, gravitate, electric, opposites attract, highly charged, animal magnetism, zeitgeist
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