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Energy

noun

(pl. energies)

(physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs. Synonym: free energy.

Forceful exertion. Synonyms: vigor, vigour, zip. "He's full of zip"

Enterprising or ambitious drive. Synonyms: get-up-and-go, push.

An imaginative lively style (especially style of writing). Synonyms: muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim. "A remarkable muscularity of style"

A healthy capacity for vigorous activity. Synonyms: vim, vitality. "He seemed full of vim and vigor"

Any source of usable power.

The federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977. Synonyms: Department of Energy, DOE, Energy Department.

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"Energy" Quotes from Famous Books

... telling her story, and the apprehension increased all the while that Mozart was playing, in spite of the ineffable charm beneath the mysterious horror of the music, and was brought to a climax by his own story of his night work. She felt sure that this man's energy would speedily and inevitably destroy him; that he could be but a fleeting apparition in this world, which was unable to appreciate ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various

... nursery, they had also spent some months together at the abbey of St Cyr, in preparation for their solemn office. They were of marked but very contrasted characters. The elder inherited the strong will and dominant energy of her race. As yet, and for some time afterwards, without any religious bias, she contemplated her prospects with a quiet and proud consciousness of responsibility. The younger sister was of a softer and more submissive nature. She shrank from her high position, saying that an abbess ...

— Pascal • John Tulloch

... said. "Bouncing balls just don't pick up energy out of nowhere, I don't care how their molecules are put together. And you don't get energy out ...

— The Big Bounce • Walter S. Tevis

... year had gone it caused Rosenblatt no small annoyance that while he was thus struggling to keep pace with the demands upon his time and energy, Paulina, with lamentable lack of consideration, should find it necessary to pause in her scrubbing, washing, and baking, long enough to give birth to a fine healthy boy. Paulina's need brought her help and a friend in the person ...

— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor

... he most insisted is that the teaching of words and things must go together, hand in hand. When we consider how much time is spent over new languages, what waste of energy is lavished on mere preparation, how it takes so long to lay a foundation that there is no time to lay a building upon it, we must conclude that it is in the acceptance and development of this principle that the improvement of education will in the future consist. Any one who attempts to inculcate ...

— The Orbis Pictus • John Amos Comenius

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