OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 3656

electric

/ɪˈlɛktɹɪk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
eléctrico
Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
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 ins…
[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 elec…
electrónico • eléctrico
Of or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.
electrizante
Emotionally thrilling; electrifying.
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 i…
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 pa…
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📚 noun • entry_id 3657

electric

/ɪˈlɛktɹɪk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
coche eléctrico
An electric powered version of something that was originally or is more commonly not electric.
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…
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 wh…
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