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#205538 04/20/12 02:45 AM
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...one of those long strips of hard plastic, with a thick cord, into which you can put several electric plugs? (Not a surge protector--you just plug things into it.)

I was doing one of those hidden-picture puzzles, and searched for ages for something listed as a "power bar". I was looking for snack food, and it turned out to be one of these things, that I call a power strip!

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Adapter? (Not sure of the spelling)
Spike buster?

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I would normally call it a power board?

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I call it a power strip

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I call it a power strip

Me, too.


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Good for you that make a distinction between a contact device for one and one for many contacts.
We keep it quite simple and call them, all for one, one for all:
contact box. ( just like the single one that sits in walls )
BTW, how do call the one or twins in the wall in English?

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I don't think I've ever seen a single one. In these parts they're called (somewhat schizophrenically) outlets orreceptacles, sometimes prefaced by electrical.

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Over here they tend to be referred to as "extension leads" - sometimes, "muti-plug extension leads," to differentiate from the single socket extension leads.


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"how do call the one or twins in the wall in English?"

In my house we'd normally use 'double adapter'.

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In this part of the world they are "plugs" or "outlets".
Sometimes "wall socket".


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