Energy vs Dash - What's the difference?
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The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
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*: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.
(lb) 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.
:Units:
::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
(lb) An intangible, modifiable force (often characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed 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.
*2004 , Phylameana L. Desy, The Everything Reiki Book , Body, Mind & Spirit,
*:Reiki, much like prayer, is a personal exercise that can easily convert negative energy' into positive ' energy .
*2009 , Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner , John Wiley & Sons,
*:Negative feelings can be worked through and their energy' converted into positive '''energy'''. In crisis, normal patterns of self-organization fail, resulting in anxiety (negative '''energy'''). Being open systems, people can exchange this '''energy''' with the environment and create positive ' energy for taking action based on a reorganisation of self as necessary to resolve the crisis and emerge at a higher level of consciousness; that is, until the next crisis.
*2011 , Anne Jones, Healing Negative Energies , Hachette,
*:If you have been badly affected by negative energy' a salt bath is wonderful for clearing and cleansing yourself. Salt attracts negative ' energy and will draw it away from you.
(typography) Any of the following symbols: (''horizontal bar ).
A short run.
A small quantity of a liquid substance; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
Vigor.
A dashboard.
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One of the two symbols of Morse code.
(Nigeria) A bribe or gratuity.
* 1992 , George B. N. Ayittey, Africa betrayed (page 44)
* 2006 , Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo, The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950 (page 99)
* 2008 , Lizzie Williams, Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide (page 84)
(obsolete, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)
* 1824 , "Kiddywinkle History, No. II", Blackwood's Magazine (15, May 1824)
* 1853 , (William Makepeace Thackery), (The Newcomes)'', Chapter VI, serialized in ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine , (VIII, no. 43, Dec 1853)
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* 1884 , (Lord Robert Gower), My Reminiscences'', reprinted in "The Evening Lamp", ''The Christian Union , (29) 22, (May 29, 1884)
* 1939 , , (Uncle Fred in the Springtime)
To run quickly or for a short distance.
(informal) To leave or depart.
To destroy by striking (against).
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4
To throw violently.
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To sprinkle; to splatter.
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(of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
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To dishearten; to sadden.
To complete hastily, usually with down'' or ''off .
To draw quickly; jot.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there.
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Energy is a related term of dash.
As nouns the difference between energy and dash
is that energy is the impetus behind all motion and all activity while dash is (typography) any of the following symbols: (''horizontal bar ).As a verb dash is
to run quickly or for a short distance.As an interjection dash is
(euphemistic) damn!.energy
English
Noun
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Synonyms
* (capacity to do work) pep, vigor, vim, vitalityDerived terms
* acoustic energy * activation energy * alternate energy * alternative energy * anisotropy energy * atomic energy * available energy * barycentric energy * binding energy * bioenergy * bond dissociation energy * bond energy * bundle of energy * chemical energy * cohesive energy * collateral energy * conservation of energy * correlation energy * Coulomb energy * dark energy * deformation energy * disintegration energy * dissociation energy * eddy kinetic energy * effective energy * eigenenergy * elastic energy * electric energy * electromagnetic energy * electrostatic energy * energy carrier * energy crisis * energy drink * energy expenditure * energy field * energy level * energy meter * energy mix * energy obesity * energy poverty * energy source * energy transfer * energyless * energymeter * energyware * excitation energy * Fermi energy * free energy * geothermal energy * Gibbs free energy * green energy * Helmholtz free energy * high-energy * impact energy * interfacial energy * internal energy * ionization energy * isoenergy * kinetic energy * lattice energy * law of conservation of energy * luminous energy * magnetic energy * mass energy * mechanical energy * muzzle energy * nonenergy * nuclear energy * pairing energy * particle energy * Planck energy * potential energy * primary energy * quasienergy * 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 * zonal kinetic energyExternal links
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English
Noun
(es)- sometimes dash'' is also used colloquially to refer to a ''hyphen'' or ''minus sign .
- Add a dash of vinegar
- Aren't we full of dash this morning?
- The dash clock said 2:38 when.
- The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash " to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa.
- Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merely dashes given to the father-in-law
- The only other times you'll be asked for a dash is from beggars.
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- I'll be dashed if I gan another step for less 'an oaf.
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- Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what the dash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and swallows his pride once more into his waistband.
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- Who the dash' is this person whom none of us know? and what the ' dash does he do here?
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- I'll be dashed if I squash in with any domestic staff.
Hyponyms
* See alsoHypernyms
* punctuation markDerived terms
* dashing * dash off * em dash, en dashSee also
(punctuation)Verb
(es)- He dashed across the field.
- I have to dash now. See you soon.
- He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.
- "`Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes.'
- Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.
- The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.
- If you dash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.
- On each hand the gushing waters play, / And down the rough cascade all dashing fall.
- Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.
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- Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.
- He dashed''' down his eggs'', ''she '''dashed off her homework
- "Scarborough," Mrs. Flanders wrote on the envelope, and dashed a bold line beneath; it was her native town; the hub of the universe.
- to dash''' wine with water; to '''dash paint upon a picture
- I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications.
- The very source and fount of day / Is dashed with wandering isles of night.