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energy | electric |

As a noun energy

is the impetus behind all motion and all activity.

As an adjective electric is

electric.

energy

English

Noun

(energies)
  • The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
    • , page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) , title= Ideas coming down the track , passage=A “moving platform” scheme
  • The capacity to do work.
  • *
  • *: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, p.130
  • *: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, p.15
  • *: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, p.118
  • *: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.

    • Synonyms

    * (capacity to do work) pep, vigor, vim, vitality

    Derived 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 energy

    Related terms

    * dark energy * ergonomics * synergy

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    Anagrams

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    electric

    English

    Alternative forms

    * electrick (chiefly archaic)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black), title=Internal Combustion
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
  • Of or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.
  • Being emotionally thrilling; electrifying.
  • * (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
    • Electric Pindar.
  • Drawing electricity from an external source; not battery-operated; corded.

    • Derived terms

    * electrical * electrical outlet * electrical engineer * electric chair * electric darts * electric eye * electric fence * electric grid (power grid) * electric shock

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (informal) .
  • (rare) An electric car.
  • (archaic) A substance or object which can be electrified; an insulator or non-conductor, like amber or glass.

    • References

    * * * Dictionary.com definitions of electric * Niels H. de V. Heathcote (December 1967). " The early meaning of electricity'': Some ''Pseudodoxia Epidemica'' - I". ''Annals of Science 23 (4): pp. 261-275. 1000 English basic words ----