different between pomp vs electricity

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French pompe, from Latin pompa (“pomp”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pomp?, “a sending, a solemn procession, pomp”), from ????? (pémp?, “I send”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?mp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

pomp (countable and uncountable, plural pomps)

1. Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
2. A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.

Related terms

• pompous
• pomposity
• hypnopompic

Derived terms

• pomp and circumstance

Translations

Verb

pomp (third-person singular simple present pomps, present participle pomping, simple past and past participle pomped)

1. (obsolete) To make a pompous display; to conduct.
   • 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwood

     pomp'd for those hard trifles

Further reading

• pomp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pomp in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pomp at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pomp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch pomp, from Middle Dutch pompe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?mp/

Noun

pomp (plural pompe, diminutive pompie)

1. pump (device for moving liquid or gas)

Danish

Etymology

From German Pomp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?mp/, [p??m?b?]

Noun

pomp c (singular definite pompen, not used in plural form)

1. pomp (show of magnificence)

Synonyms

• pragt

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch pompe. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?mp/
• Hyphenation: pomp
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

pomp f (plural pompen, diminutive pompje n)

1. pump (device for moving liquid or gas)

Derived terms

• benzinepomp
• bierpomp
• fietspomp
• maagpomp
• pompen
• scheepspomp
• stadspomp
• voetpomp
• waterpomp

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pomp
• ? Indonesian: pompa
• ? Japanese: ???
• ? Sranan Tongo: pompu
  • ? Aukan: pompu

Icelandic

Etymology

Probably a loan word from the Danish pomp, from the French pompe, from the Latin pompa (“display, parade, procession”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pomp?, “a sending”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??m?p/
• Rhymes: -?m?p

Noun

pomp n (genitive singular pomps)

1. ceremony, pomp

Declension

Synonyms

• (ceremony, pomp): viðhöfn, skraut

Derived terms

• pomp og prakt

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