Voltaicn.adj.²

Brit.

/vɒlˈteɪɪk/, U.S.

/vɑlˈteɪɪk/,

/voʊlˈteɪɪk/

Etymology: < the name of the West African river Volta + -ic suffix.

A. n.

a. A group of Niger-Congo languages of West Africa.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Voltaic

Voltaic1939

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. xii. 402 The divisions of Sudano-Guinean, according to Delafosse, may now be enumerated:..Voltaic (fifty-three languages)..apparently possessing inclusive and exclusive pronouns for the first person plural.

1967 M. Schlauch Language ii. 39 Suffixes are also used to indicate nominal classes (e.g. in Voltaic).

b. A speaker of one of these languages; a citizen of the Republic of Upper Volta.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of West Africa > [noun] > countries or regions

Guinean1589

Kongo1600

Gambian1744

Guinea Negro1748

Congoese1765

Sierra Leonean1791

Congolese1800

Liberian1826

Guinea-man1830

Nigerian1860

Lagosian1897

Basenji1906

Ghanaian1949

assimilado1953

Mali1960

Malian1960

Katangese1962

Biafran1967

Zairean1972

Ivorian1973

Zairois1973

Zairese1974

Upper Voltan1975

Voltaic1976

the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Voltaic > speaker of

Voltaic1976

1976 New Society 11 Nov. 294/3 Educated Voltaics like to discount the cia theory with one of their own.

1984 Chicago Sun-Times 9 Jan. 18 The government is treated with some skepticism by older Voltaics.

B. adj.²

Of or pertaining to this group of languages, or to this republic or its citizens. Cf. Upper Voltan adj. and n.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [adjective]

Negrish1735

Temne1791

Nupe1841

Efik1849

Kikongo1885

Dagbani1917

Ngbandi1931

Zande1938

Voltaic1949

Mandinka1953

Ngbaka1955

Edo1957

Loma1957

Mandekan1968

Manding1969

Malinke1970

Mende1972

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of West Africa > [adjective] > countries or regions

Congoese1765

Liberian1823

Nigerian1876

Sierra Leonean1910

Voltaic1949

Ghanaian1957

Lagosian1967

1949 tr. L. Homburger Negro-Afr. Langs. i. 22 The people who speak Voltaic languages number about 3,000,000.

1969 W. B. Morgan & J. C. Pugh W. Afr. i. i. 24 The Senoufo are a Voltaic community who have adopted many Manding and Akan customs. They live well to the south, in sub-Sudanic and sub-Guinean environments.

1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 66 The use of a drone or continuous humming between sung phrases is also a vocal feature shared by Voltaic peoples and some blues singers.

1976 New Society 11 Nov. 293/3 Doing their military service by teaching in Voltaic schools.

1979 Observer 17 June (Colour Suppl.) 56/3 France for example in 1976 exported 64 million dollars worth of goods to Upper Volta (43 per cent of Voltaic imports).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

voltaicadj.¹

Brit.

/vɒlˈteɪɪk/, U.S.

/vɑlˈteɪɪk/,

/voʊlˈteɪɪk/

Etymology: < the name of the Italian physician and scientist, Alessandro Volta (1745–1827) + -ic suffix.

1. Of apparatus: Used in producing electricity by chemical action after the method discovered by Volta; esp. voltaic battery (battery n. 10), voltaic pile (pile n.⁶ 3).

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > [adjective] > used in production

voltaic1812

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > [noun]

electric battery1774

pile1800

battery1801

trough1806

voltaic battery1812

voltaic pile1812

magnetomotor1823

trough battery1841

gas battery1843

gravity battery1870

sand-battery1873

Bunsen battery1879

gravitation battery1883

magazine batterya1884

perfluent batterya1884

(a)

1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. ii. 36 It has been shewn by experiments made by means of the Voltaic battery..that compound bodies in general are capable of being decomposed by electrical powers.

1850 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 2) 81 A voltaic battery, which consists usually of alternations of two metals, and a liquid capable of acting chemically upon one of them,..is incapable of acting.

1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 1 When galvanism was discovered, at the beginning of the present century, and the voltaic battery invented.

(b)1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 275 The Voltaic pile, as well as the battery last described, are now but little used.1839 H. M. Noad Course Eight Lect. iii. 97 To Volta's experiments we are indebted for the first galvanic instrument, namely, the voltaic pile; it was described by him in the Philosophical Transactions of 1800.1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 352 After the discovery of the voltaic pile the use of the electrical machine gradually fell into disuse.(c)1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 54 Without the Voltaic apparatus, there was no possibility of examining the relations of electrical polarities to chemical attractions.1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xvii. 460 Voltaic arrangements, consisting of a few large plates rather than many small ones.1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect Introd. ii. 57 In a voltaic cell, an energy is gendered and transmitted along a wire with inconceivable rapidity.a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 930/2 A voltaic pencil, by the use of which designers and draughtsmen may be enabled to dispense entirely with the aid of the engraver.

a. Of electricity: Generated by chemical action.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > [adjective] > generated by chemical action

voltaic1816

1816 F. Accum Pract. Ess. Chem. Re-agents 223 When the precipitation of the metallic lead takes place in the surface of the zinc, voltaic electricity is evolved.

1836 M. Somerville Connex. Physical Sci. (ed. 3) xxviii. 305 Voltaic electricity is of that peculiar kind which is elicited by the force of chemical action.

1890 Nature 4 Sept. The application of voltaic electricity to the welding and fusion of metals.

b. Of a current: Consisting of voltaic electricity.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > [adjective] > consisting of voltaic electricity

voltaic1834

1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. xxxi. 324 The magnetic and electric fluids,..arising from all possible positions of the conducting wire, and every direction of the voltaic current.

1860 G. W. S. Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 180 The effect of a continued voltaic current.

a. Of or pertaining to, connected with, caused by, electricity due to chemical action.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > [adjective]

galvanic1797

galvanistical1816

voltaic1820

1820 M. Faraday Exper. Res. (1859) 65 The little bars..evidently produced voltaic action.

1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xvii. 461 This formed a voltaic combination with the platina and the fluid.

1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. ii. 145 The Voltaic shock is very different, in consequence of the altered character of the discharge.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 309/1 The invention of voltaic deposition..created a new era for the manufacture of silver-plated wares.

b. voltaic brass n. brass deposited by the action of electricity.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > brass > types of

maslinOE

latten1340

messing1371

orichalcc1429

shruff1541

black latten1545

mellay1545

medley brass1600

medley1601

shaven latten1660

latten-brass1677

brass-latten1678

similor1778

pig brass1841

Muntz metal1842

button brass1849

oreide1857

voltaic brass1860

semilor1866

naval brass1881

1860 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) II. 94 Voltaic brass does not appear to have been obtained in a solid distinct form, but has been successfully produced as a coating upon a copper surface.

c. figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > exciting > [adjective]

stirring1421

excitative1490

rousing1576

animating1595

excitant1608

exciteful?1615

spirit-stirringa1616

spiritous1624

excitatinga1643

exagitating1646

fermentive1656

awakening1694

electrifying1746

upstirring1751

electrical1760

thrilling1768

excitive1774

proceleusmatic1775

electric1789

inspiriting1796

fermentitious1807

exciting1811

red-hot1835

hair-raising1838

suscitating1840

arousing1841

sizzling1845

zesty1853

excitory1861

throbbing1864

buzzing1882

ding-dong1887

thrillful1887

stir-up1890

large1895

thrilly1896

high voltage1909

voltaic1920

sizzly1936

Boy's Own1967

hot shit1967

crunk1995

1920 D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl iii. 45 A superhuman, voltaic force filled her.

Derivatives

volˈtaically adv. by means of, in respect of, voltaic electricity; after the manner of a voltaic battery.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > [adverb]

voltaically1843

1843 W. R. Grove Voltaic Phenom. in Electr. Mag. (1845) 1 119 Besides employing the usual chemical tests, I analysed it voltaically.

1844 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 2) 144 When a series of some hundred couples of zinc and copper cylinders are arranged voltaically, and charged with common water, a battery is obtained.

1865 C. B. Mansfield Theory of Salts 12 One of these, the Chlorine, is said to be voltaically or chemically negative.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	voltaic
释义	Voltaicn.adj.² Brit. /vɒlˈteɪɪk/, U.S. /vɑlˈteɪɪk/, /voʊlˈteɪɪk/ Etymology: < the name of the West African river Volta + -ic suffix. A. n. a. A group of Niger-Congo languages of West Africa. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Voltaic Voltaic1939 1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. xii. 402 The divisions of Sudano-Guinean, according to Delafosse, may now be enumerated:..Voltaic (fifty-three languages)..apparently possessing inclusive and exclusive pronouns for the first person plural. 1967 M. Schlauch Language ii. 39 Suffixes are also used to indicate nominal classes (e.g. in Voltaic). b. A speaker of one of these languages; a citizen of the Republic of Upper Volta. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of West Africa > [noun] > countries or regions Guinean1589 Kongo1600 Gambian1744 Guinea Negro1748 Congoese1765 Sierra Leonean1791 Congolese1800 Liberian1826 Guinea-man1830 Nigerian1860 Lagosian1897 Basenji1906 Ghanaian1949 assimilado1953 Mali1960 Malian1960 Katangese1962 Biafran1967 Zairean1972 Ivorian1973 Zairois1973 Zairese1974 Upper Voltan1975 Voltaic1976 the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Voltaic > speaker of Voltaic1976 1976 New Society 11 Nov. 294/3 Educated Voltaics like to discount the cia theory with one of their own. 1984 Chicago Sun-Times 9 Jan. 18 The government is treated with some skepticism by older Voltaics. B. adj.² Of or pertaining to this group of languages, or to this republic or its citizens. Cf. Upper Voltan adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [adjective] Negrish1735 Temne1791 Nupe1841 Efik1849 Kikongo1885 Dagbani1917 Ngbandi1931 Zande1938 Voltaic1949 Mandinka1953 Ngbaka1955 Edo1957 Loma1957 Mandekan1968 Manding1969 Malinke1970 Mende1972 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of West Africa > [adjective] > countries or regions Congoese1765 Liberian1823 Nigerian1876 Sierra Leonean1910 Voltaic1949 Ghanaian1957 Lagosian1967 1949 tr. L. Homburger Negro-Afr. Langs. i. 22 The people who speak Voltaic languages number about 3,000,000. 1969 W. B. Morgan & J. C. Pugh W. Afr. i. i. 24 The Senoufo are a Voltaic community who have adopted many Manding and Akan customs. They live well to the south, in sub-Sudanic and sub-Guinean environments. 1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 66 The use of a drone or continuous humming between sung phrases is also a vocal feature shared by Voltaic peoples and some blues singers. 1976 New Society 11 Nov. 293/3 Doing their military service by teaching in Voltaic schools. 1979 Observer 17 June (Colour Suppl.) 56/3 France for example in 1976 exported 64 million dollars worth of goods to Upper Volta (43 per cent of Voltaic imports). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020). voltaicadj.¹ Brit. /vɒlˈteɪɪk/, U.S. /vɑlˈteɪɪk/, /voʊlˈteɪɪk/ Etymology: < the name of the Italian physician and scientist, Alessandro Volta (1745–1827) + -ic suffix. 1. Of apparatus: Used in producing electricity by chemical action after the method discovered by Volta; esp. voltaic battery (battery n. 10), voltaic pile (pile n.⁶ 3). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > [adjective] > used in production voltaic1812 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > [noun] electric battery1774 pile1800 battery1801 trough1806 voltaic battery1812 voltaic pile1812 magnetomotor1823 trough battery1841 gas battery1843 gravity battery1870 sand-battery1873 Bunsen battery1879 gravitation battery1883 magazine batterya1884 perfluent batterya1884 (a) 1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. ii. 36 It has been shewn by experiments made by means of the Voltaic battery..that compound bodies in general are capable of being decomposed by electrical powers. 1850 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 2) 81 A voltaic battery, which consists usually of alternations of two metals, and a liquid capable of acting chemically upon one of them,..is incapable of acting. 1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 1 When galvanism was discovered, at the beginning of the present century, and the voltaic battery invented. (b)1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 275 The Voltaic pile, as well as the battery last described, are now but little used.1839 H. M. Noad Course Eight Lect. iii. 97 To Volta's experiments we are indebted for the first galvanic instrument, namely, the voltaic pile; it was described by him in the Philosophical Transactions of 1800.1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 352 After the discovery of the voltaic pile the use of the electrical machine gradually fell into disuse.(c)1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 54 Without the Voltaic apparatus, there was no possibility of examining the relations of electrical polarities to chemical attractions.1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xvii. 460 Voltaic arrangements, consisting of a few large plates rather than many small ones.1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect Introd. ii. 57 In a voltaic cell, an energy is gendered and transmitted along a wire with inconceivable rapidity.a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 930/2 A voltaic pencil, by the use of which designers and draughtsmen may be enabled to dispense entirely with the aid of the engraver. 2. a. Of electricity: Generated by chemical action. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > [adjective] > generated by chemical action voltaic1816 1816 F. Accum Pract. Ess. Chem. Re-agents 223 When the precipitation of the metallic lead takes place in the surface of the zinc, voltaic electricity is evolved. 1836 M. Somerville Connex. Physical Sci. (ed. 3) xxviii. 305 Voltaic electricity is of that peculiar kind which is elicited by the force of chemical action. 1890 Nature 4 Sept. The application of voltaic electricity to the welding and fusion of metals. b. Of a current: Consisting of voltaic electricity. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > [adjective] > consisting of voltaic electricity voltaic1834 1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. xxxi. 324 The magnetic and electric fluids,..arising from all possible positions of the conducting wire, and every direction of the voltaic current. 1860 G. W. S. Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 180 The effect of a continued voltaic current. 3. a. Of or pertaining to, connected with, caused by, electricity due to chemical action. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > [adjective] galvanic1797 galvanistical1816 voltaic1820 1820 M. Faraday Exper. Res. (1859) 65 The little bars..evidently produced voltaic action. 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xvii. 461 This formed a voltaic combination with the platina and the fluid. 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect i. ii. 145 The Voltaic shock is very different, in consequence of the altered character of the discharge. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 309/1 The invention of voltaic deposition..created a new era for the manufacture of silver-plated wares. b. voltaic brass n. brass deposited by the action of electricity. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > brass > types of maslinOE latten1340 messing1371 orichalcc1429 shruff1541 black latten1545 mellay1545 medley brass1600 medley1601 shaven latten1660 latten-brass1677 brass-latten1678 similor1778 pig brass1841 Muntz metal1842 button brass1849 oreide1857 voltaic brass1860 semilor1866 naval brass1881 1860 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) II. 94 Voltaic brass does not appear to have been obtained in a solid distinct form, but has been successfully produced as a coating upon a copper surface. c. figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > exciting > [adjective] stirring1421 excitative1490 rousing1576 animating1595 excitant1608 exciteful?1615 spirit-stirringa1616 spiritous1624 excitatinga1643 exagitating1646 fermentive1656 awakening1694 electrifying1746 upstirring1751 electrical1760 thrilling1768 excitive1774 proceleusmatic1775 electric1789 inspiriting1796 fermentitious1807 exciting1811 red-hot1835 hair-raising1838 suscitating1840 arousing1841 sizzling1845 zesty1853 excitory1861 throbbing1864 buzzing1882 ding-dong1887 thrillful1887 stir-up1890 large1895 thrilly1896 high voltage1909 voltaic1920 sizzly1936 Boy's Own1967 hot shit1967 crunk1995 1920 D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl iii. 45 A superhuman, voltaic force filled her. Derivatives volˈtaically adv. by means of, in respect of, voltaic electricity; after the manner of a voltaic battery. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > [adverb] voltaically1843 1843 W. R. Grove Voltaic Phenom. in Electr. Mag. (1845) 1 119 Besides employing the usual chemical tests, I analysed it voltaically. 1844 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 2) 144 When a series of some hundred couples of zinc and copper cylinders are arranged voltaically, and charged with common water, a battery is obtained. 1865 C. B. Mansfield Theory of Salts 12 One of these, the Chlorine, is said to be voltaically or chemically negative. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.²1939adj.¹1812
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Voltaicn.adj.2

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Voltaicn.adj.²

voltaicadj.¹