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Electric   /ɪlˈɛktrɪk/   Listen
Electric

adjective
1.
Using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity.  Synonym: electrical.  "Electric wiring" , "Electrical appliances" , "An electrical storm"
2.
(of a situation) exceptionally tense.
3.
Affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling.  Synonyms: galvanic, galvanising, galvanizing.  "The new leader had a galvanic effect on morale"
noun
1.
A car that is powered by electricity.  Synonyms: electric automobile, electric car.



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"Electric" Quotes from Famous Books



... their secret well all these months, but it was to be hidden no longer now. It flashed upon her like an electric shock. She remembered a hundred things,—a hundred little mysteries she had met and been puzzled by, in Aimee's manner; she remembered all she had heard, and all she had wondered at, and her heart seemed turned to stone. The flush ...
— Vagabondia - 1884 • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... going directly back to Fletcherwood, however, Craig had told the chauffeur to stop at the plant of the local electric light and power company, where he asked if he might see the record of the amount of current used the ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve

... the darkness, there was a sharp flash, and what seemed to be a great star of fire struck the rock, shedding a brilliant light which revealed all around for a short distance, as if a light had suddenly appeared from an opening in the mountain; and then, close in beneath where the electric bolt had struck, he could see a knot of about a dozen Indians, who uttered a tremendous yell as they caught sight of him, making Black Boy tear off at full speed, while the next moment there was a deafening crash, and ...
— The Silver Canyon - A Tale of the Western Plains • George Manville Fenn

... he would never forget the enjoyment of that night. The electric signs along Broadway interested him intensely; he babbled about them boyishly. Theater outside and theater within; a great drama of light and shadow, of comedy and tragedy; for he gazed upon the scene with all his poet's ...
— The Voice in the Fog • Harold MacGrath

... I haven't a grain of sense, nor dignity, nor anything else except a wild desire to hug everything in sight! I am having as many thrills as a surcharged electric battery, and I am so hysterically happy that I don't care what I ...
— Lady of the Decoration • Frances Little


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