A battery

Noun

Meaning

the battery used to heat the filaments of a vacuum tube

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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets. William Tecumseh Sherman

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? Arthur Conan Doyle

The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion. David Deida

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device. Ken Auletta

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships. Tracy McMillan

She no longer believes very strongly in belief... Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done. J. M. Coetzee

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