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# electric

«electric» in Mova's school dictionary: **using or working by electricity, like an electric kettle…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (electric)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Electric means using or working by electricity, like an electric kettle or electric car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/electric/#m1)

2) Electric means made by electricity, like an electric shock or an electric current. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/electric/#m2)

3) Electric can describe a very exciting feeling: «The atmosphere was electric». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/electric/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on electricity, an electric circuit needs a power source (battery), wires and a complete loop for a bulb to light. In safety, electric shocks from sockets, damaged wires, power lines and water near electric things can kill; keep electric things away from the bath and sink, and never fly kites near power lines. Phrases: electric shock, electric car, electric guitar, electric current, electric fence, electric eel.

### examples

- Our new car is electric. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/electric/#x1)
- The electric kettle switches off by itself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/electric/#x2)
- Never touch a broken electric cable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/electric/#x3)
- He got an electric shock from the old toaster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/electric/#x4)
- We made an electric circuit with a battery and a bulb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/electric/#x5)
- Don't use electric things near water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/electric/#x6)
- The farm has an electric fence to keep cows in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/electric/#x7)
- The crowd was electric at the final. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/electric/#x8)
- Our aunt had an electric wire from the theatre to her room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/electric/#x9)

### note

Electric = working by electricity (an electric heater). Electrical is very similar and is used for general things (electrical equipment, an electrical fault). Electricity is the noun. An electric eel can give a real shock.

### In the corpora

- [Neighbours need rest and quiet too; many electric keyboards have a headphone socket for quiet practice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/12/)
- [Sharks also sense tiny electric signals from other animals' muscles through little pores on their snouts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/6/)
- [A real electric shock makes muscles jump and can stop the heart; it does not just make hair stand up like in cartoons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/231-electric-senses-eels-sharks-the-platypus-and-charged-bees/17/)
- [Nets, electric fishing and dams did the rest, and the giant Chinese paddlefish was lost too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/5/)
- [It may be the first dolphin driven extinct by people, through boats, nets, electric fishing and dams.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «electric» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/electric/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.