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Meaning of 'energy' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Energy [ 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.
- Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.
- 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.
- Capacity for performing work.

Meaning of 'energy' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . energy [ n]
Meaning (1):
- an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
Example in sentence:
  • a remarkable muscularity of style;
  • his writing conveys great energy
Meaning (2):
- (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs
Example in sentence:
  • energy can take a wide variety of forms
Meaning (3):
- enterprising or ambitious drive
Example in sentence:
  • Europeans often laugh at American energy
Meaning (4):
- forceful exertion
Example in sentence:
  • he plays tennis with great energy;
  • he's full of zip
Meaning (5):
- a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
Example in sentence:
  • he seemed full of vim and vigor;
  • jogging works off my excess energy
Meaning (6):
- any source of usable power
Example in sentence:
  • the DOE is responsible for maintaining the energy policy

Nearby Words:

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