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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.
Belonging to it.
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* 1751 , G. Burnett, trans. Thomas More, Utopia :
* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice :
* 1989 , Jasper Becker and John Gittings, The Guardian , 5 Jun 1989:
The one (or ones) belonging to it.
* 1645 , Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton,
* 2007 — Ian Austen,
* 1917 — Charles Henry Taylor,
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As a noun energy
is the impetus behind all motion and all activity.As an initialism its is
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Noun
(energies)Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
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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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(wikipedia its)Alternative forms
* it'sDeterminer
- The manner wherewith our Lawes assay to moderate the foolish and vaine expences of table-cheare and apparell, seemeth contrarie to it's end.
- since I have been at the Pains to write it, if he consents to it's being published I will follow my Friend's Advice, and chiefly yours.
- They descended the hill, crossed the bridge, and drove to the door; and, while examining the nearer aspect of the house, all her apprehensions of meeting its owner returned.
- The Chinese government is at war with its own people.
Pronoun
Letter to Ferdinando Fairfax, 6 February 1645:
- [...] both Houses have resolved to rob the North of a good friend of its and yours.
"Canadian Court Opens Up eBay Data to Tax Agency", New York Times , October 1, 2007:
- EBay Canada argued in court that the data sought by tax collectors was [sic ] not its to give.
History of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago Vol.2 p.1259:
- ...the Board of Trade of Chicago can at least feel that it has played its part manfully and patriotically, and that no act of its has stood in the way of National victory.