Energy
['enədʒɪ] or ['ɛnɚdʒi]
Definition
(noun.) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); 'his writing conveys great energy'; 'a remarkable muscularity of style'.
(noun.) enterprising or ambitious drive; 'Europeans often laugh at American energy'.
(noun.) forceful exertion; 'he plays tennis with great energy'; 'he's full of zip'.
(noun.) any source of usable power; 'the DOE is responsible for maintaining the energy policy'.
(noun.) (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs; 'energy can take a wide variety of forms'.
(noun.) a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; 'jogging works off my excess energy'; 'he seemed full of vim and vigor'.
Editor: Luke--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.
(n.) Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.
(n.) Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.
(n.) Capacity for performing work.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Force, power, might, efficacy, potency, efficiency, strength, activity, intensity.[2]. Spirit, spiritedness, animation, life, vigor, manliness, zeal, pluck, bottom, animal spirits.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ACTIVITY]
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Definition
n. power of doing work: power exerted: vigorous operation: strength: (physics) the term as applied to a material system used to denote the power of doing work possessed by that system.—adjs. Energet′ic -al having or showing energy: active: forcible: effective.—adv. Energet′ically.—n.pl. Energet′ics the science of the general laws of energy.—adj. Ener′gic exhibiting energy.—v.t. En′ergise to give strength or active force to.—v.i. to act with force:—pr.p. en′ergīsing; pa.p. en′ergīsed.—Conservation of energy (see Conservation).
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Examples
- The energy which had at once supported him under his old sufferings and aggravated their sharpness, had been gradually restored to him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Nothing but energy can save you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- They teach at one time that men act from class interests: but they devote an enormous amount of energy to making men conscious of their class. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Gerty Farish had opposed the plan with all the energy of her somewhat inarticulate nature. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- As it has a double task to perform, it must be endowed with double force and energy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- His advice, energy, activity, money, credit, all his resources whatsoever, were all made useless. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Competition with a rival was what inspired him with most passion and energy, he said, and nothing on earth made him half so much in love. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- This labor movement has a destructive and constructive energy within it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If a laughing eye with a lively light, and a face bright with beaming and healthy energy, could attest that he was better, better he certainly was. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He at once threw himself on the astonished combatants, with his accustomed energy, and loudly called upon the bystanders to interpose. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You may be certain;' in the energy of her love she took him to her bosom as if he were a child; 'that I will not reproach you. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- If energy remains, it will be rather a dangerous energy--deadly when confronted with injustice. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This speech was delivered with an energy and readiness quite unusual with Mr. Casaubon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The direct production of electric energy by the combustion of coal would be the ideal method. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In this case the balance is preserved and the central wire remains neutral, as no return current flows through it to the source of energy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the mechanical arts, the sciences become methods of managing things so as to utilize their energies for recognized aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To us they are the energies of the soul, neither good nor bad in themselves. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She sighed to think what her mother's fierce energies would have accomplished, had they been coupled with Mrs. Peniston's resources. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I made it a rule to take as much out of myself as I possibly could, in my way of doing everything to which I applied my energies. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In this manner a good deal of capital and the energies of many prominent men in politics and business had been rallied distinctively to the support of arc lighting. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Pasteur now applied his energies to the study of virulent diseases, following the principles of his earlier investigations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Unless one is cognizant of the energies which are already in operation, one's attempts at direction will almost surely go amiss. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To this nobler purpose the man of understanding will devote the energies of his life. Plato. The Republic.
- He will never love me; but he shall approve me; I will show him energies he has not yet seen, resources he has never suspected. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Their fire had ceased entirely and all their energies seemed focused upon escape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The compromise of Camillus (367 B.C.) had put an end to internal dissensions, and left her energies free for expansion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As I advanced in the execution of this task, I felt it more and more, and roused my utmost energies to do it well. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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