Electricity vs Wire - What's the difference?
electricity | wire |
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,
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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:
(label) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
(label) A finish line of a racetrack.
(label) A telecommunication wire or cable
(label) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
(label) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
(label) A deadline or critical endpoint.
(label) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
* 1934 , edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 222:
To string on a wire.
To equip with wires for use with electricity.
To add something into an electrical system by means of wiring; to incorporate or include something.
(label) To send a message or a money value to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominately by telegraph.
To make someone tense or psyched up.
(label) To install eavesdropping equipment.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
As nouns the difference between electricity and wire
is that electricity is the study of electrical energy; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena while wire is (label) metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.As a verb wire is
to fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.electricity
English
(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.
wire
English
Noun
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
Synonyms
* (thin thread of metal ): cable, steel wire, thread * (metal conductor that carries electricity ): conducting wire * (fencing made of usually barbed wire ): barbed wire * (informal: telegraph''): ''See telegraph * (informal: message transmitted by telegraph''): ''See telegram * (object used to keep the score in billiards) score stringDerived terms
* baling wire * barbed wire, barbed-wire * be on the wire * by wire * chicken wire * down to the wire * earthing wire * get one’s wires crossed]], [[have one's wires crossed, have one’s wires crossed * guy wire/guy-wire * haywire * live wire * piano wire * pull wires * pull the wires * razor wire * trawlwire * trip wire * under the wire * wire broadcasting * wire clippers * wire cutter * wire entanglement * wireform * wireless * wire recorder * wire rope * wire transfer * wiretap * wire wool * woven wire * wirySee also
* filament * hawser * cableVerb
(wir)- I could see him in his plane flying low over the river or a reservoir, dropping the club out with a chunk of lead wired to the shaft.
- I'll just wire your camera to the computer screen.
