ENERGY

energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim

(noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); “his writing conveys great energy”; “a remarkable muscularity of style”

energy, push, get-up-and-go

(noun) enterprising or ambitious drive; “Europeans often laugh at American energy”

energy, vigor, vigour, zip

(noun) forceful exertion; “he plays tennis with great energy”; “he’s full of zip”

energy

(noun) any source of usable power; “the DOE is responsible for maintaining the energy policy”

energy, free energy

(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”

energy, vim, vitality

(noun) a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; “jogging works off my excess energy”; “he seemed full of vim and vigor”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

energy (countable and uncountable, plural energies)

The impetus behind all motion and all activity.

The capacity to do work.

(physics) A quantity that denotes the ability to do work and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance²/time² (ML²/T²) or the equivalent.

An intangible, modifiable force (often characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed in some New Age religions to emanate from a person, place or thing and which is (or can be) preserved and transferred in human interactions; shared mood or group habit; a vibe, a feeling, an impression. (Compare aura.)

(Eastern Orthodoxy, theology, often, plural) The external actions and influences resulting from an entity’s internal nature (ousia) and by which it is made manifest, as opposed to that internal nature itself; the aspect of an entity that can affect the wider world and be apprehended by other beings.

(RPG, video games, board games) A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.

Synonym: action points

Synonyms

• (capacity to do work): pep, vigor, vim, vitality

Hyponyms

• acoustic energy

• activation energy

• alternate energy

• alternative energy

• anisotropy energy

• atomic energy

• available energy

• barycentric energy

• binding energy

• bioenergy

• bond energy

• chemical energy

• cohesive energy

• collateral energy

• correlation energy

• Coulomb energy

• dark energy

• deformation energy

• disintegration energy

• dissociation energy

• effective energy

• eigenenergy

• elastic energy

• electric energy

• electromagnetic energy

• electrostatic energy

• excitation energy

• Fermi energy

• free energy

• geothermal energy

• Gibbs free energy

• green energy

• Helmholtz free energy

• impact energy

• interfacial energy

• internal energy

• ionization energy

• kinetic energy

• lattice energy

• luminous energy

• magnetic energy

• mass energy

• mechanical energy

• muzzle energy

• nuclear energy

• pairing energy

• particle energy

• Planck energy

• potential energy

• primary energy

• radiant energy

• radio energy

• recombination energy

• renewable energy

• resonance energy

• resource energy

• rest energy

• rotational energy

• secondary energy

• selfenergy

• separation energy

• solar energy

• sound energy

• specific energy

• spin-spin energy

• strain energy

• sublimation energy

• surface energy

• thermal energy

• tidal energy

• transition energy

• translational energy

• turbulence energy

• unavailable energy

• vacuum energy

• vibrational energy

• wall energy

• Wigner energy

• Zeeman energy

• zero-point energy

Anagrams

• Greeny, greeny, greyen, gyrene

Source: Wiktionary


En"er*gy, n.; pl. Energies. Etym: [F. Ă©nergie, LL. energia, fr. Gr.In, and Work.]

1. 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. The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects. Paley.

2. Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.

3. 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.

4. (Physics)

Definition: Capacity for performing work.

Note: The kinetic energy of a body is the energy it has in virtue of being in motion. It is measured by one half of the product of the mass of each element of the body multiplied by the square of the velocity of the element, relative to some given body or point. The available kinetic energy of a material system unconnected with any other system is that energy which is due to the motions of the parts of the system relative to its center of mass. The potential energy of a body or system is that energy which is not kinetic; -- energy due to configuration. Kinetic energy is sometimes called actual energy. Kinetic energy is exemplified in the vis viva of moving bodies, in heat, electric currents, etc.; potential energy, in a bent spring, or a body suspended a given distance above the earth and acted on by gravity.

Accumulation, Conservation, Correlation, and Degradation of energy, etc. (Physics) See under Accumulation, Conservation, Correlation, etc.

Syn.

– Force; power; potency; vigor; strength; spirit; efficiency; resolution.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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