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Electrical   /ɪlˈɛktrɪkəl/   Listen
Electrical

adjective
1.
Relating to or concerned with electricity.  "Electrical and mechanical engineering industries"
2.
Using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity.  Synonym: electric.  "Electric wiring" , "Electrical appliances" , "An electrical storm"



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"Electrical" Quotes from Famous Books



... the air vibrates with noises that deafen; hundreds of shells hurtle overhead. 'That's 'er,' shouts the man by your side. You are pleased that something has happened to divert your mind from its morbid fancyings. This is the 'Dinkum.' The electrical effect upon your mind and body is wonderful. You break from the shackles that fear and fancy have thrown round you. The reports of terrific explosions rend the air, you grip frantically at the soft mud to prevent yourself being hurled through space. Somebody from somewhere ...
— Over the Top With the Third Australian Division • G. P. Cuttriss

... had invented and perfected a flying machine much more complete and manageable than those of the Martians had been. Wonderful stories quickly found their way into the newspapers concerning what Mr. Edison had already accomplished with the aid of his model electrical balloon. His laboratory was carefully guarded against the invasion of the curious, because he rightly felt that a premature announcement, which should promise more than could be actually fulfilled, would, at this critical juncture, plunge mankind back again into ...
— Edison's Conquest of Mars • Garrett Putman Serviss

... had taken his departure. Frequently the disturbance amounted to no more than taunts and jeers on one side and threats and recriminations on the other, but the atmosphere that it created was of that electrical nature that might at ...
— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice

... just beginning to freeze, there lay already the faint, bleak odors of coming winter. White men, with their dull scent, might never have divined them; the fragrance of the wood fire would have concealed from them these almost electrical hints of moss and bark and hardening swamp a hundred miles away. Even Hank and Defago, subtly in league with the soul of the woods as they were, would probably have spread their delicate nostrils ...
— The Wendigo • Algernon Blackwood

... poems was a sacrifice of vitality, a virtue went away from him into every one of them; even yet, as we turn the leaves, they seem to warm and thrill our fingers with the flush of his fine senses, and the flutter of his electrical nerves, and we do not wonder he felt that what he did was to be ...
— Among My Books • James Russell Lowell


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