Dynamic
[daɪ'næmɪk]
Definition
(adj.) characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality; 'a dynamic market'; 'a dynamic speaker'; 'the dynamic president of the firm' .
(adj.) of or relating to dynamics .
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Definition
(a.) Alt. of Dynamical
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Definition
adj. relating to force: relating to the effects of forces in nature: causal.—n. Dynam′ic a moving force.—adv. Dynam′ically.—ns. Dynam′ics the science which treats of matter and motion where the nature of the moving body and the cause of its motion are both considered; Dy′namism a theory which explains the phenomena of the universe by some immanent energy: operation of force; Dy′namist.—adj. Dynamis′tic.
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Examples
- And whether it is negro slavery or a vicious sexual bondage, the actual advance comes from substitutions injected into society by dynamic social forces. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A dynamic conception of society always frightens a great number of people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- An ideal suspended in a vacuum is ineffective: it must point a dynamic current. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was dynamic hatred and loathing, coming strong and black out of the unconsciousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The dynamic force which created these conditions, which will continue to create them--lust--they refer to in a few pious sentences. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Nothing dynamic holds the recommendations together--the mass of them are taboos, an attempt to kill each mosquito and ignore the marsh. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But the original genius sees the dynamic purpose first, finds reasons afterward. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It would have no dynamic power because the forces would neutralize each other. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- All that is dynamic in human character is in these rooted lusts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What was not realized, it seems, is that this very sex impulse, so largely degraded into vice, is the dynamic force in religious feeling. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The pettifogging objections to some social plan had very little chance of survival owing to the dynamic power of the reformers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Without some new dynamic force America, for all her tradition, is not immune to a hardening formalism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The successful politician--good or bad--deals with the dynamics--with the will, the hopes, the needs and the visions of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It treats of cohesion and resistance to fracture (strength of materials), and uniform, accelerated, and projectile motion (dynamics). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the founder of the science of dynamics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For this problem lies close indeed to the dynamics of our own natures. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The dynamics for a splendid human civilization are all about us. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- By becoming part of the dynamics of unrest he gathered a power of effectiveness: by formulating a program for insurgency he translated it into terms of public service. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For this task he must be keenly sensitive to public opinion and capable of understanding the dynamics of it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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