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Will I die?

Will I die?

  • Yes

    Votes: 159 52.8%

  • No

    Votes: 35 11.6%

  • No, but don’t

    Votes: 80 26.6%

  • Carrots

    Votes: 27 9.0%
  • Total voters
    301
#181
Electrocution is death by electrical current.

The term has been bastardized to apply to other descriptions though as slang.
 
#184
Downunderwonder said:
Tell that to Webster Merriam.
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Let them get an EE degree, study the history of electrical power (yes, I do have a library with books going back to the late 1800's on this subject) and figure it out for themselves.
 
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#185
From an etymological standpoint I think it means to kill by electricity or specifically "execute by electricity," 1889, American English. It comes from electro (before vowels electr-, word-forming element meaning "electrical, electricity," Latinized form of Greek ēlektro-) + the back half of execute ("Act of putting to death" (mid-14c.) from Middle English legal phrases such as don execution of deth "carry out a sentence of death.").

IME you can receive an electrical shock and survive. If you don't survive, I think the primary cause of death would be listed as electrocution.
 
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#189
agedhorse said:
Let them get an EE degree, study the history of electrical power (yes, I do have a library with books going back to the late 1800's on this subject) and figure it out for themselves.
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eventually use trumps origin. It has happened enough with electrocute that it appears in dictionaries with causation of grievous injury as a 2nd definition after death by electricity. I will rail against misuse of headroom but electrocute has lost in my view.
 
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#191
Downunderwonder said:
eventually use trumps origin. It has happened enough with electrocute that it appears in dictionaries with causation of grievous injury as a 2nd definition after death by electricity. I will rail against misuse of headroom but electrocute has lost in my view.
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You are 100% correct about the dictionary definition...though as an engineer I've always viewed electrocution as the worst case outcome from receiving an electrical shock. My engineering training roots are from the 1970's so I'm admittedly out of date with some definitions.
 
#196
It doesn't have to be so binary, like the news makes it to be. It's not just death per some number of incidents.

If you get shocked but don't die, and instead you fry some brain sells, or burn off skin or muscles and lose movement or hand function. Fall off the stage and break your back. It's all bad. And some injuries may not show up for years. Just like in real life even for diseases.

Just put on a ground. Death is not the only concern.
 
#198
Damn.....

Leave it to us to bring semantics into a discussion about electrical safety....

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