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'.

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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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