Electricity vs Stone - What's the difference?
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The study of electrical energy; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena.
* 2011 , Jon Henley, The Guardian , 29 Mar 2011:
Electric power/energy as used in homes etc., supplied by power stations or generators.
* 2000 , James Meek,
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, title= Electric charge, or particles carrying such charge
* 1747 , (Benjamin Franklin), letter, 28 Jul 1747:
* 1837 , William Leithead, Electricity , p. 5:
* 1873 , (James Clerk Maxwell), :
A feeling of excitement; a thrill.
(label) A property of amber and certain other nonconducting substances ("electricks") to attract lightweight material when rubbed, or the cause of this property; now understood to be an imbalance of electric charge.
* 1646 , (Sir Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , 1st edition, p. 51:
(uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A small piece of stone, a pebble.
A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
* Shakespeare
A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone ? 6.3503 kilograms
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(botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
(medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
(board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
(curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.
A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A testicle.
(dated, printing) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing; also called imposing stone.
To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
(slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
Constructed of stone.
Having the appearance of stone.
Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
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As a stone (used with following adjective).
(slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjective).
As a noun electricity
is the study of electrical energy; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena.As a proper noun stone is
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(wikipedia electricity) (Etymology of electricity)Noun
(en-noun)- How does it work, though? It's based on the observation made some 200 years ago that electricity can change the shape of flames.
Home-made answer to generating electricity harks back to the past'', ''The Guardian :
- Householders could one day be producing as much electricity as all the country's nuclear power stations combined, thanks to the revolutionary application of a device developed in the early 19th century.
Out of the gloom, passage=[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 electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
- Restoring the equilibrium in the bottle does not at all affect the Electricity in the man.
- Attraction, then, is the first phenomenon that arrests our attention, and it is one that is constantly attendant on excitation. It is therefore considered a sure indicator of the presence of electricity in an active state, and forms the basis of all its tests.
- We may express all these results in a concise and consistent manner by describing an electrified body as charged'' with a certain ''quantity of electricity'' , which we may denote by ''e .
- The concretion of Ice will not endure a dry attrition without liquation; for if it be rubbed long with a cloth, it melteth. But Crystal will calefie unto electricity ; that is, a power to attract strawes and light bodies, and convert the needle freely placed.
See also
* electric * electronReferences
*Equivalent text in Pseudodoxia Epidemica , 6th edition (1672), p. 53* Niels H. de V. Heathcote (December 1967). "
The early meaning of electricity'': Some ''Pseudodoxia Epidemica'' - I". ''Annals of Science 23 (4): pp. 261-275.
stone
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(wikipedia stone)Noun
(see usage notes)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
- inestimable stones , unvalued jewels
- Should some relenting eye / Glance on the stone where our cold relics lie.
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- Lend me a looking-glass; / If that her breath will mist or stain the stone , / Why, then she lives.
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Usage notes
All countable senses use the plural stones'' except the British unit of mass, which uses the invariant plural ''stone .Synonyms
* (substance) rock * (small piece of stone) pebble * (hard stone-like deposit) calculus * (curling piece) rockDerived terms
(Terms derived from the noun) * birthstone * brownstone * cast the first stone * cobblestone * cornerstone * foundation stone * gemstone * gravestone * hailstone * headstone * keystone * limestone * lodestone * markstone * milestone * moonstone * oilstone * sandstone * sink like a stone * Smithfield stone * soapstone * stepping stone * stone frigate * stone wall * touchstone * turn to stone * whetstoneVerb
(ston)- She got stoned to death after they found her.
Synonyms
* (pelt with stones) lapidateAdjective
(-)- stone walls
- stone pot
- She is one stone fox.
Adverb
(-)- My father is stone''' deaf. This soup is '''stone cold.
- I went stone crazy after she left.
