NOUN | an electric shock | electric shocks | |
SYNO | electrical shock | electric shock | shock |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- This protects users from electric shock if live internal parts accidentally contact the case.
- Timerman was subjected to electric shock torture, beatings, and solitary confinement.
- It’s even possible the electric shock to revive Kong was a nod to the apes love of electricity in King Kong vs.
- It is thought that the person had urinated into a roadside ditch and a live wire that was lying in the ditch gave the person an electric shock.
- The pain caused by an electric shock can be intense, leading electricity at times to be employed as a method of torture.
- after lightning hit a power pole at the Elite Bull Connection, sending an electric shock through the grandstands, rodeo chutes and bull pens."
- In cases of electric shock, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for an hour or longer can allow stunned nerves to recover, allowing an apparently dead person to survive.
- Cuthbert was one of the pioneers of electric shock therapy for treating mental illness.
- We are also introduced in the course of the novel to the Canadian doctor Lewis Yealland, another factual figure who used electric shock treatment to "cure" his patients.
- 5 kV or more gathers leakage current and capacitive current, protecting people from electric shock and equalizing stress on the cable insulation.
- During initial military training in England, he received an electric shock from a telephone that had been hit by lightning, which caused him for the next twelve years to stammer and sweat badly if he had to use one.
- An erroneous explanation for the absence of electric shock that has persisted among Tesla coil hobbyists is that the high-frequency currents travel through the body close to the surface, and thus do not penetrate to vital organs or nerves, due to an electromagnetic phenomenon called "skin effect".
- They are attracted to the UV and are killed using an electric shock, or trapped once they come into contact with the device.
- Informational/instructional fear acquisition is learning to fear something by getting information. For instance, fearing electrical wire after hearing that touching it causes an electric shock.
- Beginning in the late 18th century it was used in the Victorian medical field of electrotherapy to treat a variety of diseases by electric shock.
- Subcategories of stun gun include the electroshock weapon, an incapacitating weapon that momentarily disables either a beast or a person with an electric shock; and a directed-energy weapon that causes unconsciousness, a weapon that emits energy in an aimed direction without a projectile.
- During his pre-flight training, Ham was taught to push a lever within five seconds of seeing a flashing blue light; failure to do so resulted in an application of a light electric shock to the soles of his feet, while a correct response earned him a banana pellet.
- In free-operant avoidance a subject periodically receives an aversive stimulus (often an electric shock) unless an operant response is made; the response delays the onset of the shock.
- It also checks the victim's condition to apply automatically electric shocks at a correct level, if they are needed.
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