WordNet
n. a light insulated conductor for household use [syn: cord]
Wikipedia
Electric Cord is a 1961 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein. In October 2012, the painting was returned to the widow of Leo Castelli after it had gone missing 42 years prior. Castelli had purchased the painting in the 1960s for $750. In 2012 it was estimated to be worth $4 million.
Usage examples of "electric cord".
The fellow with the electrified lance made a few jabs, then the electric cord, leading to the power plant in his own underwater craft, became entangled and he had to abandon the unique weapon.
The electric cord still connected the hot plate to a wall socket supplying 117 volts AC from the barge's electrical system.
Apart from an electric detonator, ensconced in cotton in a small box, a collection of small magnets, and a reel of ordinary household electric cord, he had brought a length of CLC.
McCrea was in his shorts, his back to the door, two thin lengths of electric cord dangling from his right hand.
Mary Philips, age thirty-nine, occupation beauty operator, was deadstrangled at the rear of her shop with an electric cord at the hands of an unknown assailant.
A head the size of a tennis ball topped one end of the contraption and a long electric cord trailed off the other.
An electric cord trailed from the top of the cylinder and ran to a small wall socket.
On the massive, claw-footed table between the two elevators stood a yard-high naked lady in brass, trailing brass draperies and standing on brass clouds, holding aloft a small, dusty light bulb with a frayed electric cord dangling from it.
I ripped the cable and electric cord from the PC, took the sniffer software out of the floppy drive, and put it in my top pocket.
An electric cord ran down the front of the desk and plugged into a wall socket, which also powered a mock-antique desk lamp.
Verkan Vail went to the control desk, at the center of the dome, and picked up a two-foot globe of the same fine metallic mesh, opening it and making some adjustments inside, then attaching an electric cord and closing it.
They hit him again with the electric cord, and this time he passed out.
When he reentered the apartment he had his fan, with the electric cord looped neatly around the base, under one arm.
The deputy went into quite a bit of detail about the nature of the damage, comparing it to another case he'd seen where a child bit through an electric cord while standing in a puddle of water in the bathroom.
She pulled the paneling forward and slid the electric cord into a slot cut in one side of the sheet.