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Galvanize

To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.

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Coat 76% connected

An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.

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Floor 76% connected

The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

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Shock 76% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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Surface 76% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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Galvanization 74% connected

The act of process of galvanizing.

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Galvanization 74% connected

The act of process of galvanizing.

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Galvanizer 74% connected

One who, or that which, galvanize.

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Galvanizer 74% connected

One who, or that which, galvanize.

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Startle 92% connected

To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.

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-ism unknown · 78% connection

A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idio…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: affect, galvanism, subject, electrical, currents.
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Adverse adjective · 78% connection

in an opposing direction; "adverse currents"; "a contrary wind"

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Aerial adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air;…

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Allegory noun · 78% connection

A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and…

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Atmosphere noun · 78% connection

A supposed medium around various bodies; as, electrical atmosphere, a medium formerly supposed to surround electrical bodies.

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Attaint verb · 78% connection

To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason…

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Baffling adjective · 78% connection

Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks.

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Bletonism noun · 78% connection

The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France.

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Board noun · 78% connection

electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical…

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Boil verb · 78% connection

To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produce…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: affect, galvanism, subject, electrical, currents.
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Circuit noun · 78% connection

an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow

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Commutator noun · 78% connection

A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means…

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Concentration noun · 78% connection

The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.

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Control board noun · 78% connection

electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical…

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Control panel noun · 78% connection

electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical…

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Drift adjective · 78% connection

That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.

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Dynamo-electric adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents b…

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Electric circuit noun · 78% connection

an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow

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