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- 1 The impetus behind all motion and all activity. countable, uncountable
"A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails.[…]This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?"
- 2 an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) wordnet
- 3 The capacity to do work. countable, uncountable
"There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place."
- 4 enterprising or ambitious drive wordnet
- 5 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. countable, uncountable
"SI: joule (J), kilowatt-hour (kW·h) CGS: erg (erg) Customary: foot-pound-force, calorie, kilocalorie (i.e. dietary calories), BTU, liter-atmosphere, ton of TNT"
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- 6 forceful exertion wordnet
- 7 An intangible, modifiable force (usually 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. countable, uncountable
"Reiki, much like prayer, is a personal exercise that can easily convert negative energy into positive energy."
- 8 the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977 wordnet
- 9 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. countable, in-plural, often, uncountable
"The three Persons of the Holy Trinity have the same opinion, make the same decision, and put forth the same energy and action."
- 10 any source of usable power wordnet
- 11 A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana. countable, uncountable
- 12 (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs wordnet
- 13 An atmosphere, aura, or vibe. Internet, countable, uncountable
"big dick energy; divorced guy energy; main character energy"
- 14 a healthy capacity for vigorous activity wordnet
Etymology
From Middle French énergie, from Late Latin energia, from Ancient Greek ἐνέργεια (enérgeia, “activity”), from ἐνεργός (energós, “active”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). The sense in physics was coined by English polymath Thomas Young in 1802 in his lectures on Natural Philosophy.
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