Energized vs Powered - What's the difference?
energized | powered |
(energize)
To invigorate, to make energetic.
To supply with energy, especially electricity. To turn on power to something.
(obsolete) To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.
* J. C. Shairp
(of a device) Self-powered, such as by an electric motor or an internal engine; not requiring external power, such as from a person or a horse.
* 2007 , John W. Diers and Aaron Isaacs, Twin Cities by Trolley: The Streetcar Era in Minneapolis and St. Paul , University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 0-8166-4358-X, page 145,
(power)
As verbs the difference between energized and powered
is that energized is past tense of energize while powered is past tense of power.As an adjective powered is
self-powered, such as by an electric motor or an internal engine; not requiring external power, such as from a person or a horse.energized
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*energize
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Alternative forms
* (Commonwealth English ) energiseVerb
(energiz)- Whenever we energize that circuit we blow a fuse.
- Of all men it is true that they feel and energize first, they reflect and judge afterwards.
powered
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Adjective
(-)- Around the same time, TCRT experimented with removing the motors on one of its older cars, turning it into an unpowered trailer that could be towed behind a powered car.
