| 单词 | electric wire |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselectric wire electric wire n. †(a) a wire of the electric telegraph, a telegraph wire (obsolete); (b) a wire or cable carrying an electric current, esp. as part of the electricity supply in a building. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > [noun] wire1746 electric wire1819 rheophore1827 live wire1881 line1886 power wire1890 society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > other parts of telegraphs electric wire1819 pecker1858 sounder1860 motograph1874 contact-point1879 phonopore1885 phonophore1886 separator1891 syntonizer1900 power buzzer1918 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > wire > types of silver wire14.. white wire1463 virginal wire1662 pin-wire1674 binding wire1767 pinion wire1767 electric wire1819 music wire1823 gutta-percha-wire1876 No. eight1876 picture wire1876 number eight1952 microwire1953 plated wire1960 nanowire1990 1819 Ld. Byron Mazeppa vi. 16 Involuntary sparks of thought..Conveying, as the electric wire, We know not how, the absorbing fire. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. xi. 247 The electric wires..ruled a colossal strip of music-paper out of the evening sky. 1860 M. L. Booth Hist. City N.Y. 720 The electric wire had not yet girdled the earth, and this rapid transmission of news seemed almost a miracle. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 23 Oct. 2/3 They tore down gas-pipes, water-pipes, and electric wires from the walls, demolished the fixtures, wrenched the plumbing apart. 1951 C. Beaton Diary July in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xvii. 232 Farmer Bundy suggested an electric wire, but no one else much cared for that idea. 2000 N.Y. Times 3 Aug. f13/1 The 37-by-28-inch desktop..comes with a built-in surge protector, storage shelf and cutouts for electric wires. < as lemmas |
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