What part of speech is electric?

Electric can be categorized as a noun and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. electric is a noun, singular of electrics.
  • 2. electric is an adjective, not comparable.

Inflections

Noun

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • Not comparable
    Not comparable
  • Positive: electric 
  • Comparative: Not comparable
  • Superlative: Not comparable

Adjective to adverb

What does electric mean?

Definitions

Adjective

electric - using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity; "electric current"; "electric wiring"; "electrical appliances"; "an electrical storm"
electric - (of a situation) exceptionally tense; "an atmosphere electric with suspicion"
electric - affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling; "gave an electric reading of the play"; "the new leader had a galvanic effect on morale"

Noun

electric - a car that is powered by electricity

Examples of electric

#   Sentence  
1. adj. Electric current.
2. adj. Electric wiring.
3. adj. An atmosphere electric with suspicion.
4. adj. Gave an electric reading of the play.
5. adj. This conference will examine the business and regulatory challenges to U.S. electric systems in transition in effectively expanding transmission capacity to meet new demands in the larger and more competitive regional markets emerging under FERC 's RTO initiatives.
6. adj. We now have a settlement before the Commission that includes ratepayer advocates, commercial and industrial customers, electric generators, marketers, shippers, independent storage providers,? gas suppliers,? producers, utilities, aggregators, pipeline companies, wholesale customers, municipalities, and retail mass marketers, among others.?
7. adj. We have not received access to this information which has resulted so far in additional electric cost of $200,987.33 for the period of July through September.
8. adj. There is an Electric Restructuring Committee hearing scheduled for September 6th or 7th.
9. adj. A team of San Diego's best anti-trust and class action attorneys has been assembled to take on the electric generators and marketers in California state court in an effort to return the electricity overcharges that have battered San Diego and the rest of California this year.
10. adj. Our bathroom fan, one electric outlet and 2 leaky sinks have yet to be fixed.
11. adj. The strong wind cut the electric wires in several places.
12. adj. We tend to use more and more electric appliances in the home.
13. adj. Every hospital has a back-up electric generator in case of blackout.
14. adj. The river furnishes electric power to the town.
15. adj. I should have tried out this electric shaver before buying it.
16. noun As an outgrowth of the meeting Leslie and I had with Scott and Hunter a couple of weeks ago, we have begun work to develop an electronic tool that would allow us to provide ongoing summaries of FERC gas activities, and possibly electric activities, in a format that can be linked to the Fundamentals intranet site used by the traders.
17. noun My son? He doesn't seem to be interested in classical music. I always hear some loud music coming from his room, though - techno, electric, or what have you.
Sentence  
adj.
Electric current.
Electric wiring.
An atmosphere electric with suspicion.
Gave an electric reading of the play.
This conference will examine the business and regulatory challenges to U.S. electric systems in transition in effectively expanding transmission capacity to meet new demands in the larger and more competitive regional markets emerging under FERC 's RTO initiatives.
We now have a settlement before the Commission that includes ratepayer advocates, commercial and industrial customers, electric generators, marketers, shippers, independent storage providers,? gas suppliers,? producers, utilities, aggregators, pipeline companies, wholesale customers, municipalities, and retail mass marketers, among others.?
We have not received access to this information which has resulted so far in additional electric cost of $200,987.33 for the period of July through September.
There is an Electric Restructuring Committee hearing scheduled for September 6th or 7th.
A team of San Diego's best anti-trust and class action attorneys has been assembled to take on the electric generators and marketers in California state court in an effort to return the electricity overcharges that have battered San Diego and the rest of California this year.
Our bathroom fan, one electric outlet and 2 leaky sinks have yet to be fixed.
The strong wind cut the electric wires in several places.
We tend to use more and more electric appliances in the home.
Every hospital has a back-up electric generator in case of blackout.
The river furnishes electric power to the town.
I should have tried out this electric shaver before buying it.
noun
As an outgrowth of the meeting Leslie and I had with Scott and Hunter a couple of weeks ago, we have begun work to develop an electronic tool that would allow us to provide ongoing summaries of FERC gas activities, and possibly electric activities, in a format that can be linked to the Fundamentals intranet site used by the traders.
My son? He doesn't seem to be interested in classical music. I always hear some loud music coming from his room, though - techno, electric, or what have you.

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