different between hydro vs electricity

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (húd?r, “water”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

hydro (not comparable)

1. hydroelectric
2. hydroponic

   hydro watercress

Noun

hydro (countable and uncountable, plural hydros)

1. (uncountable) hydroelectric power
2. (Canada, uncountable) electrical power supply; specifically, electrical power provided by a utility (as a publicly-owned one); payment or bills for this.

   I won't have lights until my house gets the hydro turned on.

   She was having trouble paying the hydro.

   He crashed his car against a hydro pole.

3. (Britain, countable, dated) A spa.
   • 1909, Rudyard Kipling, The House Surgeon

     She almost lived at hotels and hydros, last year, but that isn't pleasant for her.

4. (countable, aviation, obsolete) Abbreviation of hydroaeroplane.

Translations

Anagrams

• Rhody

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