different between electricity vs doubler

English

Etymology

From electric +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?lek?t??s?ti/, /??l?k?t??s?ti/, /??l?k?t??s?ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??l?k?t??s?ti/, /i?l?k?t??s?ti/, /??l?k?t????s?ti/
• Rhymes: -?s?ti

Noun

electricity (usually uncountable, plural electricities)

1. Originally, a property of amber and certain other nonconducting substances to attract lightweight material when rubbed, or the cause of this property; now understood to be a phenomenon caused by the distribution and movement of charged subatomic particles and their interaction with the electromagnetic field. [from 17th c.]
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica^[1], 4th edition, p. 56:

     Again, the concretion of Ice will not endure a dry attrition without liquation?; for if it be rubbed long with a cloth, it melteth. But Cry?tal will calefie unto electricity?; that is, a power to attract ?traws or light bodies, and convert the needle freely placed.

   • 1747 July 28, Benjamin Franklin, letter to Peter Collinson, collected in New Experiments and Observations on Electricity, part I, 3rd edition, London: D. Henry and R. Cape, published 1760, page 8:

     For, re?toring the equilibrium in the bottle does not at all affect the Electricity in the man thro’ whom the fire pa??es?; that Electricity is neither increa?ed nor dimini?hed.

   • 2011, Jon Henley, The Guardian, 29 Mar 2011:

     How does it work, though? It's based on the observation made some 200 years ago that electricity can change the shape of flames.

2. (physics) The study of electrical phenomena; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena. [from 18th c.]
3. A feeling of excitement; a thrill. [from 18th c.]
4. Electric power/energy as used in homes etc., supplied by power stations or generators. [from 19th c.]
   • 2000, James Meek, 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.

See also

• alternating current (AC)
• current
• energy
• power
• vacuum
• direct current (DC)
• vending machines
• earth
• electric current
• circuit
• electric circuit

Translations

See also

• electric
• electron

References

• Equivalent text in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 6th edition (1672), p. 53
• de V. Heathcote, Niels H. (December 1967) , “The early meaning of electricity: Some Pseudodoxia Epidemica - I”, in Annals of Science, volume 23, issue 4, DOI:10.1080/00033796700203316, ISSN 0003-3790, WD Q54266797, pages 261–275

English

Etymology

double +? -er

Noun

doubler (plural doublers)

1. One who doubles.
2. An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope.
3. (structural engineering) A metal plate riveted or welded over a preexisting metal structural component to reinforce it and relieve the stress on the preexisting component, or to serve as a patch where part of the original structure has failed or been removed.

4. (US, dialect) A tenement house having two families on each floor.
5. (colloquial) A biplane aeroplane or kite.
6. Part of a distilling apparatus for intercepting the heavier fractions and returning them to be redistilled.
7. (calico printing) A blanket or felt placed between the fabric and the printing table or cylinder.
8. A person employed in a roller mill to fold the hot metal plates in half.
9. A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.

Anagrams

• Boulder, boulder

French

Etymology

From Old French dobler, from Late Latin d?pl?, from Latin d?plus. Compare Spanish and Catalan doblar, Portuguese dobrar, Italian doppiare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du.ble/

Verb

doubler

1. to double, duplicate

   A cet instant précis, il a décidé de doubler la mise.

2. to double-cross

   Nous avons été doublé ce coup-ci.

3. to overtake, pass

   Sur l'autoroute, nous avons eu l'occasion de doubler de nombreux véhicules.

4. to dub

   Daniel Beretta qui double Arnold Schwarzenegger en français depuis 1987 a également prêté sa voix à l'agent Sam Fisher.

5. (Belgium) to repeat a school year

   Synonym: redoubler

Conjugation

Derived terms

• doublage
• redoubler
• dédoubler

Descendants

• ? Romanian: dubla

See also

• dupliquer

Further reading

• “doubler” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).