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I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.
Nguyen Cao Ky

Meaning of "electric chair" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ELECTRIC CHAIR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ELECTRIC CHAIR

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Electric chair is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ELECTRIC CHAIR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

electric chair

Electric chair

Execution by electrocution, usually performed using an electric chair, is an execution method originating in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the head and leg. This execution method was created by employees of Thomas Edison during the War of Currents, and has been used only in the United States and, for a period of several decades, in the Philippines. Historically, once the condemned person was attached to the chair, various cycles of alternating current would be passed through the individual's body, in order to cause fatal damage to the internal organs. The first more powerful jolt of electric current was designed to pass through the head and cause immediate unconsciousness and brain death. The second less powerful jolt was designed to cause fatal damage to the vital organs. Death may also be caused by electrical overstimulation of the heart. Although the electric chair has become a symbol of the death penalty in the United States, its use is in decline due to the rise of lethal injection, which is widely believed to be a more humane method of execution.

Definition of electric chair in the English dictionary

The definition of electric chair in the dictionary is an electrified chair for executing criminals.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ELECTRIC CHAIR

electric blanket
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electric charge
electric circuit
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electric cooker
electric current
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electric displacement
electric eel
electric eye
electric fence
electric field
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electric fire
electric flux
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electric furnace
electric guitar
electric hare

WORDS THAT END LIKE ELECTRIC CHAIR

armchair
bedchair
camp chair
camping chair
chair
dining chair
director´s chair
easy chair
hair
high chair
highchair
in the chair
pushchair
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Silverchair
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the electric chair
wheelchair

Synonyms and antonyms of electric chair in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «electric chair» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ELECTRIC CHAIR

Find out the translation of electric chair to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of electric chair from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «electric chair» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

电椅死刑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

silla eléctrica
570 millions of speakers

English

electric chair
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बिजली की कुर्सी
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الكرسي الكهربائي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

электрический стул
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cadeira elétrica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বৈদ্যুতিক চেয়ার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chaise électrique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kerusi elektrik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

elektrischer Stuhl
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

電気椅子
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전기의자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kursi listrik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ghế điện
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மின்சார நாற்காலி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विद्युत खुर्ची
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

elektrikli sandalye
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sedia elettrica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

krzesło elektryczne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

електричний стілець
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

scaun electric
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ηλεκτρική καρέκλα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

elektriese stoel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

elektriska stolen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

elektrisk stol
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of electric chair

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ELECTRIC CHAIR»

The term «electric chair» is regularly used and occupies the 86.745 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ELECTRIC CHAIR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about electric chair

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5 QUOTES WITH «ELECTRIC CHAIR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word electric chair.
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Uwe Boll
In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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Gregory Corso
Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that.
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J. Edgar Hoover
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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Nguyen Cao Ky
I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.
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Sylvester Stallone
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ELECTRIC CHAIR»

Discover the use of electric chair in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to electric chair and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Electric Chair: An Unnatural American History
Its use in recent years has steadily declined, and in many states now the chair is used only as a museum display. This book provides a history of the electric chair and analyzes its features, its development, and the manner of its use.
Craig Brandon, 1999
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Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death
Plumbing the fascinating history of electricity, Mark Essig explores America's love of technology and its fascination with violent death, capturing an era when the public was mesmerized and terrified by an invisible force that produced ...
Mark Essig, 2009
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Perspective from an Electric Chair
Author Mo Gerhardt tells what it is like living life while being diagnosed with a terminal disease.
Mo Gerhardt, 2011
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Life in the Electric Chair: A Man and His Wife Explore a ...
Dan West has been in an electric wheelchair since 2004.
Dan West, 2012
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Andy Warhol: little electric chair paintings
Part of his Death and Disaster series, these works borrow from the eye-catching style of tabloid journalism to reflect on the clash of dreams and violence that suffused 60s America.
Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga, Peter Halley, 2001
6
Blood and volts: Edison, Tesla, and the electric chair
In Blood and Volts, Metzger creates a unique synthesis of scholarship, storytelling and cultural critique to present a clear and compelling story of America struggling to define itself through scientific innovation.
Th Metzger, 1996
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Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, ...
In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit ...
Richard Moran, 2007
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Secrets of the Sideshows
As the act is usually performed, Electra sits in a fearful-looking "electric chair" as the switch is thrown and — claims the inside lecturer — thousands of volts surge through her body. As proof, a mere touch from Electra causes a fluorescent bulb ...
Joe Nickell, 2005
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Torture and Democracy
To induce a confession, McAllister was strapped and shocked on “an improvised electric chair.” McAllister subsequently appealed his conviction, and at trial, he testified that his confession had been coerced. The presiding judge ordered the ...
Darius Rejali, 2009
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Popular Science
The nearest approach was the unsuccessful effort of a New York attorney in 1928 when the notorious murderess, Ruth Snyder, was put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison, N.Y. ON THE night of the execution, Joseph V. Lonardo, ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ELECTRIC CHAIR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term electric chair is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tennessee Electric Chair Challenge Squashed
(CN) - It is premature to settle a challenge death-row inmates brought against Tennessee's plan to use the electric chair as a backup execution ... «Courthouse News Service, Jul 15»
2
Yet Another Hint That A Death Penalty Trial For Dylann Roof Is Likely
South Carolina is one of 31 death penalty states in the U.S., and has lethal injection and the electric chair as execution methods. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
3
TNA Impact Results, Review, & Video (July 8, 2015): Looking Weak
Before Lashley hit a spear, he performed an impressive Electric Chair on the big man. It's a bit odd that EC3 puts three guys in matches as ... «Cageside Seats, Jul 15»
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Lines, color and war: Painting as a form of healing
... Picasso's “Guernica,” Francisco Goya's “The Disasters of War,” Pieter Bruegel's “The Triumph of Death” and Andy Warhol's “Electric Chair.”. «Jewish Journal, Jul 15»
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Time to bury the death penalty
We long ago consigned the electric chair to history. It's time to put the death penalty there, too. Discuss; Print; ShareShare. Posted in Bill press ... «Fenton Tri County Times, Jul 15»
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PRISON HOUDINI
... within FSP's infamous “X-wing,” which was a veritable chamber of horrors that sat one floor above the room that housed the electric chair. «Florida Weekly, Jul 15»
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A Chat with Original Alice Cooper Band Member Dennis Dunaway
We were brainstorming theatrical ideas and I came up with the electric chair. Everybody's like, “Oh yeah, where are we gonna get an electric ... «Rock Cellar Magazine, Jul 15»
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Vietnam War veteran's wheelchair stolen from porch in Hutchinson …
Josephson had recently been given the electric chair by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Josephson, a local barber, says he's waiting to see ... «KSHB, Jul 15»
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Quincy Five's Keaton, exonerated from Death Row, dies
... by his time unfairly incarcerated on Death Row at Raiford — where he saw the electric chair every day through a window in the exercise yard. «Tallahassee.com, Jul 15»
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IFC's 'Spoils' belong to Kristen Wiig, not Will Ferrell
... (Haley Joel Osment, “The Sixth Sense”), Rock tries to clear his name before the cops toss him in the electric chair and hit the juice. As he digs ... «Boston Herald, Jul 15»

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