(v. t.) To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar.
(v. t.) To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to; as, to electrify a limb, or the body.
(v. t.) To excite suddenly and violently, esp. by something highly delightful or inspiriting; to thrill; as, this patriotic sentiment electrified the audience.
(v. i.) To become electric.
Example Sentences:
(1) Routes from London to Oxford and between Manchester, Preston, Blackpool and Liverpool will be electrified by 2016.
(2) "This has electrified the country," said the Republican senate leader Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky.
(3) An increasing barrier technique was used to measure how much of an average stimulus (cresssing an electrified grid) a female was willing to endure to gain contact with sexually active male.
(4) It was left to Americans Michael Moore (at the Roundhouse in London in 2002) and Doug Stanhope to remind us that speaking truth to power can equal electrifying standup.
(5) The Northern Hub will provide electrified track and new stretches of railway over the next five years, radiating out from Greater Manchester , to allow faster connections between stations from Chester and Liverpool to Bradford and Leeds, cutting out some of the gridlock around Manchester Piccadilly.
(6) His presence might not electrify the O2 Arena, and he's not that hot at soundbites, like Blair and Thatcher, but look where those two got us.
(7) A moment later he was teed up by Ruud van Nistelrooy and his electrifying shot was palmed over the bar by Arsenal's German keeper.
(8) In daily 10-minute sessions, water deprived rats were trained to drink from a tube that was occasionally electrified (0.25 mA), electrification being signalled by a tone.
(9) "Please ignore the abysmal example set by President Obama who, in the name of Thanksgiving, supports torture as 45 million birds are horrifically abused; dragged through electrified stun baths, and then have their throats slit.
(10) Berlusconi's remarks, combined with allegations at the weekend of a colossal slush fund at a bank traditionally close to the left, looked set to electrify a hitherto lacklustre campaign.
(11) Ghani's transformation has electrified an election campaign that many had expected to be a two-way race between a Karzai-backed candidate and the president's main rival from 2009, Abdullah Abdullah.
(12) You won’t know till you’ve slogged up several floors, got lost twice, been flagged down by precisely the person you were trying to avoid, and finally arrived at an apparently electrifying session that nonetheless finished ten minutes early.
(13) These are the equations of light, the mathematical relationships that showed us how to electrify our world and transmit energy and information through the air.
(14) In a single session, naive female 250-g Wistar rats were trained to remain for 3 min on a platform located above an electrifiable grid.
(15) These works electrified France's art world, even if Calle had not originally conceived them as art.
(16) Tyrie said amendments tabled by the government on Monday to "electrify" the ringfence that banks are required to set up to keep high street operations separate from investment banking were "virtually useless".
(17) In 10 electrifying days that haul has been more than doubled.
(18) Thursday was in many ways the most electrifying of all Britain's golden days at Greenwich – a final tally of three golds, silver and bronze exceeds expectations.
(19) A similar display of democracy in Richmond Park would electrify the campaign.
(20) He tossed Shakespeare into a modern-day, thinly veiled Miami in the electrifying Romeo + Juliet and sent Nicole Kidman wafting, purring and simpering through bohemian Paris in Moulin Rouge!
Energize
Definition:
(v. i.) To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.
(v. t.) To give strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will.
Example Sentences:
(1) Energization thus acts "competitively" towards oxygen.
(2) This effect is independent of the nature of the detergent and is observed only when the cells are in an energized state.
(3) This indicates that ATP is more directly concerned with energizing the ion movements than is phosphocreatine.5.
(4) Both at the substrate level and at the membrane level, orthophosphate energization to metaphosphate, by removal of an oxide anion (O2-), brings about a decrease in pKa with the concomitant dissociation of the two protons (2 H+), whereas de-energization of metaphosphate to orthophosphate, by addition of an oxide anion, brings about an increase in pKa with the concomitant fixation of two protons.
(5) The Midwest was energized by Elizabeth Upham Davis, who was instrumental in establishing the occupational therapy education program at Milwaukee-Downer College in 1918.
(6) It is concluded that exertional rhabdomyolysis unassociated with heat stress is a rare entity, and with prompt diagnosis and energic management results are rewarding.
(7) The oligomycin-sensitive complex can be integrated into phospholipid vesicles resulting in an ATP- and Mg2+-dependent energization of the vesicles as monitored with the fluorescent dye 9-amino-6-chloro-2-methoxyacridine.
(8) The port of Miami is the right place because it will create a great stadium, it will energize downtown, it will create jobs and economic value.” The task now facing Beckham, his investors and advisors, who have pledged to privately fund the building of the stadium and its ancillary elements, is to convince Miami-Dade county to let out (or perhaps just hand over) a significant plot of some of the most valuable real estate in the United States in aid of a sport that has already failed once in the city , while also providing tax breaks that would somewhat offset any rent income.
(9) It also prevented the energization of mitochondrial membrane by ATP and induced a loss of the ATP induced membrane potential similarly as did carbonylcyanamide-3-chlorophenyl hydrazone (CCCP).
(10) Hence a chemiosmotic mechanism of energization is likely to apply to the former but not to the latter.
(11) The kinetics of respiration-dependent proton efflux and membrane energization have been studied in intact cells of logarithmic-phase Escherichia coli.
(12) Electrophoresis of the labelled membranes and isolation of their lipid and protein components indicate that the spectral differences are attributable to differing interactions with the lipid components of energized, relative to non-energized, membranes.
(13) The correlation between the chemical gradient of 2-methylaminoisobutyric acid and the Na+ electrochemical potential followed a straight line with a yield close to the thermodynamic equilibrium, thus suggesting that the energy stored in the gradient of Na+ electrochemical potential is fully adequate to energize the intracellular accumulation of site A-reactive amino acids in human fibroblasts.
(14) The theoretical importance of these results were discussed in relation to energizing and directing functions of emotions and symmetrical and asymmetrical transfer.
(15) ATP-energized transhydrogenase activity was not increased in cells containing amplified levels of the transhydrogenase when the cell membrane ATPase was also amplified.
(16) These results also suggest that Na+ possibly has an intracellular role through its stimulation of (Na+ + K+)-ATPase channeled to energizing the p-aminohippurate accumulative mechanism.
(17) These results demonstrate that the transport of glycyl-L-proline in mouse intestinal BBMV is neither electrogenic nor energized by an inwardly directed proton gradient.
(18) To produce dynamic cooperativity it is necessary for component molecules or elements to have three states, i.e., inactive (stable) state 0, energized or energy storing (quasi-stable) state 1, and active (unstable) state 2.
(19) Boivin extracts of Bordetella bronchiseptica inhibited or uncoupled the energized processes of bovine heart and pig heart mitochondria.
(20) The results disclosed that the high-threat condition energized all forms of coping; it did not differentially cue specific coping strategies.