adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an acoustic/an electric/a classical guitar
an electric/electricity cable
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Be careful you don't cut through an electric cable.
electric blue
electric chair
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He faces death by the electric chair in a Florida state prison.
electric plug
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an electric plug
electric shock therapy
electric shock
fluorescent/electric lighting
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Fluorescent lighting is much cheaper to use than light bulbs.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
atmosphere
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In that electric atmosphere , ordinary reality could be ignored, for a time.
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All around there was the electric atmosphere of first night excitement.
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But, despite the electric atmosphere , they were beginning to function as a team.
bass
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And so Leo applied his creative hand to the problem, and the result was the electric bass .
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Ball was a budding talent, a passionate performer on both double and electric bass .
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The electric bass for ever altered the relationship between the rhythm section, the horns, and other melodic instruments.
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The electric bass had a punchy, dynamic range that would become identified with rhythm &038; blues.
bill
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Your electric bill will not necessarily be larger, because per-capita energy use may then be only half what it is now.
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You know, I get fifteen percent off on the electric bill .
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Rolling blackouts and spiraling heat and electric bills surely feel like a crisis to many homeowners and businesses.
blanket
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Later, although savouring the warmth of the electric blanket , she lay frowning in the darkness.
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It was his bed in Ilium, and the electric blanket was turned up high.
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It has a fan heater and an electric blanket on the single bed.
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Perhaps she was wondering if some one had remembered to switch the electric blanket on.
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There was no one in the apartment to turn on the electric blanket .
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Never use a hot water bottle and an electric blanket together, as this is extremely dangerous.
cable
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Be careful to avoid walking on, or tripping over, electric cables .
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This consisted of one box with a battery connected to the thin electric cable that was also the ferret's line.
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If there are no electric cables , you can replace the fuses without worry.
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The water wheel was constructed from an electric cable spool.
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Only 20% of electric cables are buried beneath the streets in Tokyo, compared with 100% in London and Paris.
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Use only outdoor waterproof fittings for electric cables .
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The vehicles are modified Daimler Benz buses, powered by diesel engines or by overhead electric cables .
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They also abandoned thousands of miles of electric cables and water pipes to rot in the ground.
car
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The companies see the vehicles as an important step in the development of electric cars , which the government supports.
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This isn't really an electric car -- you don't have to plug it in, ever.
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Less apparent on Mercedes' stand - and consequently ignored by most show visitors - was a prototype 190 electric car .
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So far, the market for electric cars is drastically limited by the cars' high cost and limited range.
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This drawback defeated the electric car .
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That was the same idea Albiez had in 1990 when he decided to make an electric car from scratch.
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The calculation has been made by the Edison electric Institute, Department of Energy and electric car industry officials.
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Honda is calling the technology a Zero-Level Emission Vehicle, although it is actually not zero-emission like electric cars .
chair
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The judge rejected the recommendation and sentenced Flowers to the electric chair .
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The electric chair for those with spelling mistakes.
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A world-wide protest movement tried to prevent their execution, but they eventually went to the electric chair in 1927.
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Top Florida court OKs electric chair use Tallahassee, Fla.
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If two people push together, only the computer knows which one killed the man in the electric chair .
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The display does include, however, the electric chair that killed Ruth Snyder in 1927&038;.
charge
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There was a terrible rage in him, she could feel it like an electric charge in the room.
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Ah, yes: Maxwell showed that oscillating an electric charge is just the mechanism that causes light waves to be produced.
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Molecular vibrations therefore lead to oscillations of electric charge , with frequencies governed by the normal vibration frequencies of the system.
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Ethanol molecules also carry a small electric charge that is crucial to its behavior in the body.
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However, there are two kinds of electric charge , positive and negative.
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Since ions carry electric charge , the flow changes the electrical environment inside a cell.
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Others that can generate an electric charge .
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Water molecules carry an electric charge and tend to stick to one another.
company
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For more specific figures, call your local electric company .
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In 1996 the coalition surveyed 300 gas and electric company CEOs.
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It can protect your equipment from hazardous brownouts that occur when electric companies reduce voltage during periods of peak demand.
cooker
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There was an old-fashioned sink under the window, and a new-looking electric cooker , with cupboards on both sides.
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Connelly didn't know how long the rings of the electric cooker had been on but one of them was almost white-hot.
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Nowadays I am a lot better placed and able to eat better because of the electric cooker .
current
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Limbs caught and held stiffly in awkward attitudes jerked into life as if an electric current had been applied to them.
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With a borrowed battery, he passed an electric current through the solution.
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Again she felt the same shiver down her back like an electric current .
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We use it to pass a little electric current through the surface layers of the brain.
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It attempts to modify the electric currents in the ionosphere during a display of the lights and to observe the results.
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He lobbied the legislature at Albany to pass a law limiting electric currents to eight hundred volts.
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They recorded six albums between 1977 and 1988, often reflecting the electric currents of the time.
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When hydrogen and oxygen are combined in a fuel cell, an electrochemical reaction generates an electric current .
drill
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A sound like an electric drill ran round the room.
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I can knock fifty thousand miles off the clock in a few minutes with my high-speed electric drill .
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Use a hand drill or an electric drill on very low speed.
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An alternative method is to attach an electric drill water pump attachment to the tap.
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Useful machines are an electric drill , a small router to make mortises and mouldings, and a small bandsaw.
fan
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Each is driven by an electric fan belt.
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At the front of the church, Emerson Seabreeze electric fans on wheeled stands faced the congregation.
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There was a row of frosted glass windows down one side, each fitted with an electric fan .
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Not five-star hotels, but sometimes air-conditioned or electric fan .
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An electric fan heater maintains a temperature just above freezing point.
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I smoked a cigarette in my bedroom, exhaling into an electric fan in the open window.
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Among the exhibits are the first modern electric fan , invented in 1886.
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A constant current of fresh air was supplied to the cars by means of ventilators and electric fans .
fence
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One elephant put an electric fence out of action by dropping an uprooted tree on it.
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It may be strip-grazed behind an electric fence , cut and carted to the cattle-yard, or made into arable silage.
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On this new open landscape some cattle grazing is controlled by electric fences which are easily moved.
field
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When subjected to an electric field , ceruloplasmin migrates as an alpha2-globulin. 178.
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The electric field of the radiation can then resonate with the vibrations of the charge ions, transferring energy to them.
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Since the protein exhibits electrical neutrality at its isoelectric point, it is unable to migrate in an electric field . 162.
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Consequently in a static diamond there are no charged atoms to interact with the electric field of infrared radiation.
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The ceramic's crystals polarise in one of two alternate states when energised by an electric field .
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The interaction is strong, as it involves the electric field of the radiation and the electric charge of the electron.
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Last century, the physicist Michael Faraday showed that there is no electric field within a conductor.
fire
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I refer to people who, as I speak, are sitting at home, unable to put on their electric fires .
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A small electric fire stood near the piano on the stage.
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Finally, J. got tired of my everlasting complaints, took pity on me and made me a small electric fire .
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One of his neighbours finds water dripping from the balcony above along her ceiling and out near her electric fire .
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The fire had been sparked by a clothes horse falling on to an electric fire.
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I took one last, depressed look at myself in the mirror above the electric fire and clattered down the stairs.
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In front of the grate was a tall electric fire with artificial coals, a high curved back and a triple set of burners.
guitar
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Today, it's difficult to imagine how electric guitars were received in an environment where rock'n'roll did not exist.
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At Motown, electric guitars , sometimes as many as four, were locked in intricate patterns.
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For example, thousands of people might have this kind of electric guitar .
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You know, when the Beatles started there was a record company guy who said electric guitar music was finished.
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But big audiences meant that country guitarists were quick to realise the benefits of an amplified electric guitar .
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Brandon Ross, electric guitar , and Toby Williams on drums.
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Are you addicted to the thrashing of electric guitars ?
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He wanted his hair to be even longer to go with the electric guitar he couldn't play yet.
heater
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Make sure electric heaters are clean and free from dust before turning them on.
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It was perhaps the small electric heater in my bedroom which made him say that.
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The nurses all wore sweaters, and a tiny electric heater glowed behind the reception desk.
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Secondary double glazed window with views over the golf course. wall mounted electric heater .
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Crilly drags the electric heater into the sitting-room.
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To be really efficient, electric heaters should be controlled by a thermostat with a remote sensor mounted at plant height.
kettle
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Yawning freely, he filled the electric kettle with water and switched it on.
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She had not noticed Amy filling and plugging in an electric kettle , but it was singing efficiently next to the cooker.
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Steven loved gadgets, and Jean had one of the latest square white plastic electric kettles .
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The black markets proffer Levis, pirated rave music and electric kettles .
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The prosecution alleges Hammond attacked the girl with his hands, fists, a ruler and the flex from an electric kettle .
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But no sooner had she switched on the electric kettle than the phone began to ring.
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That, and the electric kettle , given to me by a good friend, are a great blessing.
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It was really a bedsitter, but had an attached bathroom, an electric kettle and a minuscule electric stove.
lamp
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Not only that, it was lit by electric lamps .
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Around them were several old electric lamps , a couple with ornate glass shades, and chimneys.
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In the dressing room afterwards, brightly lit by the new Tantallum electric lamps , the atmosphere was just as electric.
light
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The electric light was burning and mixers and other equipment were making a steady hum.
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There were electric lights burning at the entryway.
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The electric light was an invention with profound existential consequences.
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Travellers very often notice that electric light and trams are brought into streets which as yet have no houses.
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There is no electric light , and the floor is compacted earth.
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Now we had plumbing and electric lights and, more important, that vital device for a single parent, a telephone.
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A moment later, all the electric lights went out.
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He had charm, and he could turn it on and off like an electric light .
mixer
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Place all the ingredients in the large bowl of an electric mixer and mix on low speed until combined.
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With an electric mixer , gradually increase to high speed to beat butter until creamy.
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Unless dealing with a large quantity of cream, an electric mixer can be perilous.
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In another large bowl, beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer until fluffy.
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Fill bowl of electric mixer with warm water and let stand 2 to 3 minutes.
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With an electric mixer , beat at low speed until moistened and then at medium speed for 3 minutes.
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Mix together with fingers, a large spoon, or with an electric mixer .
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Using an electric mixer or potato masher, mash potatoes until almost smooth.
motor
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Problems with the electric motor caused the mechanism to jam many times.
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While submerged, batteries power an electric motor that drives the propeller.
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Solar energy is converted by cells on the Solar Car's flanks to drive its electric motor and recharge its back-up batteries.
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He heard the whine of electric motors .
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The cells will drive electric motors and use on-board hydrogen gas as fuel.
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The shell raising and lowering mechanism was overhauled and a new electric motor fitted with modern gearing and cable adjusting devices.
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After further processing, hydrogen is delivered to a stack of fuel cells energizing electric motors that drive the rear wheels.
piano
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Piano , electric piano, synthesizers, composer. b. London, 16 Sept 1938.
power
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Many of the mergers were designed to set up monopolies to raise prices in industries such as steel, electric power and railways.
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Fires by the hundreds, ignited by overturned stoves and furnaces and downed electric power lines, sprang up in the ruins.
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Living close to overhead electric power lines causes health hazards.
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At 20 percent efficiency, solar photovoltaic cells in geosynchronous orbit can deliver 270 watts of electric power per square meter continuously.
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If the electric power could be cut, industry everywhere would be brought to a standstill.
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A lunar power station therefore provides an average of 135 watts per square meter of electric power.
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BThis monopoly protection will end once the doors of the electric power business fully open to competition over the next few years.
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Special noise absorption materials are even mixed with road asphalt and coat electric power lines here.
pump
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Some pubs, mainly in the Midlands and the North, use electric pumps to draw the beer to the bar.
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Residents say several concerns must be addressed immediately: The noise problem could be helped with the installation of an electric pump .
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As the peat shrank further, more powerful electric pumps and diesel pumps became available.
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He added the city apparently decided on diesel because electric pumps cost more.
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A high capacity electric pump flooded the engine and no return for excess fuel was fitted.
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Examples of different types of electric pumps .
shock
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The teacher was then taken into another room and shown an apparatus which could deliver electric shocks to the learner.
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The flick of the gold lighter kept on the coffee table was sharp as an electric shock in a room of steel.
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Men are more likely to be assessed on active behaviours like administration of electric shocks to an experimental confederate.
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A defibrillator can analyze the heart rhythm of a cardiac arrest victim and administer an electric shock .
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You can, as a matter of course, help to protect yourself from electric shocks by using a circuit breaker.
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At worst you would get a severe electric shock , which could prove fatal.
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She caught Lee's eye and Lee felt an electric shock pass through her.
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It came like an electric shock .
train
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Clockwork trains were all very well, but what I really wanted were electric trains.
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Walter and Katherine had sent what he foolishly believed to be an electric train .
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I used the money to buy an electric train set, but frustratingly enough, it didn't work very well.
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Mr Sands got an engine for an electric train .
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The footsteps are said to be those of an unfortunate platelayer who was killed shortly after the introduction of the electric trains .
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Think about the rattle of the electric trains on their way to Southfields and Putney.
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This problem is the humanistic analogue of the problem of the stoker on the electric train .
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After trials, it pioneered locomotive-hauled electric trains over the northern extension of East Coast main line electrification to Peterborough in 1988.
typewriter
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The electric typewriter was covered by its hood and would remain covered while he was still there.
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Downstairs, Yoyo found her father setting up a brand new electric typewriter on the kitchen table.
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Lying waiting on a desk was a portable electric typewriter and a stack of copy paper.
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Electronic text-processors are called word-processors, and are joint products of the computer and the electric typewriter .
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So: you type it out on an electric typewriter on A4 or A5 size paper.
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Thus you can run thirty electric typewriters off one 13 amp socket but only three 800 watt lamps.
utility
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The empirical investigations of Modigliani and Miller 2 were conducted on examples of oil and electric utility companies.
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The campaign for a deregulated electric utility industry, like a balloon, is filled with a lot of hot air.
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In 1895, the city built the first and only municipally-owned electric utility in Orange County.
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A high-technology firm, for example, faces a great deal more business risk than does an electric utility .
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Investments in electric utility stocks were down to 16. 2 percent in December from 21. 2 percent the year earlier.
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Currently, electric utilities only have limited access to power plants outside their service areas.
vehicle
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And electric vehicles are pollution-free and quiet.
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Several other small specialty manufacturers also offer electric vehicles and conversions, but their sales are tiny.
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One of the major problems with electric vehicles has been the lack of a battery with a high power-to-weight ratio.
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It is interesting to note that electric vehicles built in 1920 were still in use in the 1950s.
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Some small changes could well assist the introduction of electric vehicles to the market.
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One significant advantage of electric vehicles is that their widespread use would make far better use of off-peak electricity.
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A further advantage of electric vehicles is their lack of effect on the environment.
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The use of electric vehicles this century will be very limited.
window
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Here a salesman flaunts his status by showing the sunshine roof, electric windows and alloy wheels on his family saloon.
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I focused on a light red DeVille with plush leather seats and electric windows .
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Both Rover and Honda cars have a specification which includes electric windows and powered, heated door mirrors.
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Specification is high - remote control central locking and electric windows .
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The model included standard goodies such as electric windows and mirrors all round, power steering, central locking and catalytic convertor.
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Standard equipment includes electric sunroof, remote control locking and electric windows .
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The £13, Sport model gains standard electric windows and door mirrors.
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A flurry of rain stung my face before the electric window could wind up again.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an electric cable
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an electric shock
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Is the stove electric or gas?
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The cabin has an electric heater.
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There was an almost electric atmosphere in the stadium.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ah, yes: Maxwell showed that oscillating an electric charge is just the mechanism that causes light waves to be produced.
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All are supplied in either gas or electric models.
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At the front of the church, Emerson Seabreeze electric fans on wheeled stands faced the congregation.
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In 1996 the coalition surveyed 300 gas and electric company CEOs.
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Noise level was about average for an electric machine, certainly quieter than petrol-driven models.