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▪ I. volt, n.|vɒlt, vəʊlt|
[f. the name of Volta: see voltaic a.1]
The practical unit of electromotive force; the difference of potential capable of sending a current of one ampere through a conductor whose resistance is one ohm.
1873F. Jenkin Electr. & Magn. x. §2 There is already a unit of electromotive force in practical use called a volt. The volt is intended to represent 108 absolute units. 1881Sir W. Thomson in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 518 Nothing above 200 volts ought..to be admitted..where safeguards against accident cannot be made absolutely..trustworthy. 1892Electr. Engin. 16 Sept. 283/1 The small glow lamp requires from 0·6 to 0·8 amperes and four volts to fully light it.
b. attrib. (with numeral preceding).
1881Sir W. Thomson in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 518 To take energy direct from the electric main with its 80,000 volts, and supply it by secondary 200-volt dynamos or 100-volt dynamos. 1890Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 223 Five cells of this battery will light the six volt lamp.
▪ II. volt
obs. var. vault n.1 and v.1; var. volte n.; var. obs. Sc. vult (face).
▪ III. volt, v.1|vɒlt, vəʊlt|
[ad. F. volter (f. volte volte or ad. It. voltare); or (in sense 4) variant of vault v.2 under the influence of this.]
†1. refl. To turn or roll over. Obs.—1
1658Franck North. Mem. (1694) 67 See where he comes tumbling and tossing, and volting himself in the stiffest Streams.
†2. intr. (See quot.) Obs.—1
1688Holme Armoury ii. 150/1 [A horse is said to] Voult, when he Raires, or stands upright.
3. Fencing. To make a volte. Also fig.
1692Sir W. Hope Fencing Master 101 You must Volt, or leap with both your feet in the Air at once, quite by your Adversaries left shoulder. 1696R. H. Sch. Recreat. 72 Fourthly, you may Volt, and in your so doing, give him the Thrust, which being clearly done, will mainly surprize him. 1771Lonnergan Fencer's Guide 215, I parry you with a Prime, and cut at your head with a Medium as I volt. 1897Westm. Gaz. 14 July 3/2 When Mr. Chamberlain volts, it is not only his face, but his whole personality he turns round.
†4. = vault v.2 2. Obs. rare.
1753Young Brothers iii. i, This pass'd, as suits his Wisdom, Macedonians! Who volts o'er elder Brothers to a Throne. 1757― Love Fame v. 124 Some nymphs affect a more heroic breed, And volt [earlier edd. vault] from hunters to the manag'd steed.
Hence ˈvolting vbl. n.
1692Sir W. Hope Fencing Master 10 Volting is the leaping by your adversaries left side, quite out of his measure. 1823G. Roland Treat. Art Fencing 151 The same may be said of volting, or any manœuvre that does not give the opponent a fair opportunity of hitting the right breast. 1861G. Chapman Foil Practice 34 Volting is prohibited in teaching with the foil, and condemned in fencing.
▪ IV. volt, v.2 literary.|vəʊlt|
[f. the n.]
a. trans. To charge (something) as with electricity; to energize; to shock.
b. intr. To travel like an electric current. Hence ˈvolted ppl. a.
1930R. Campbell Adamastor 48 Dainty one, deadly one..Whose coils are volted with electric power. Ibid. 61 A starved mongrel... Fierce tremors volted through his bony notches. 1936― Mithraic Emblems 21 The volted ecstasy outglows A dolphin dying in the noon. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Mar. 266/4 Give man the grace to find a firm abode,..Not in power's seat that volts the sitter dead. 1942S. Spender Ruins & Visions ii. 38 Driven by intolerance and volted with lies. 1962N. Coghill in Davis & Wrenn Engl. & Medieval Stud. 207 All that is finest and most central in this figure is ‘made’ by a coalescence or fusion of allegory, parable, and symbol, and that is the poetic fact that volts it with imaginative power. |