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Energy is a related term of labour.

As a noun energy

is the impetus behind all motion and all activity.

As a proper noun labour is

(short for) the labour party.

energy

English

Noun

(energies)

The impetus behind all motion and all activity.

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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

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labour

English

Alternative forms

* labor (US)

Noun

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada)

Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.

* 1719, (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.

* (Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)

Being a labour of so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.

(uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.

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(uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.

The act of a mother giving birth.

The time period during which a mother gives birth.

(nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.

An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.

(Bartlett)

Usage notes

Like many other words ending in -our''/''-or'', this word is spelled ''labour'' in the UK and ''labor'' in the U.S.; in Canada, ''labour'' is preferred, but ''labor'' is not unknown. In Australia, where ''labour'' is the usual spelling, ''labor'' is nonetheless used in the name of the , reflecting the fact that the ''-or endings had some currency in Australia in the past. * Adjectives often used with "labour": physical, mental, technical, organised.

Synonyms

Derived terms

* (The act of a mother giving birth) labour pain

Verb

(en-verb) (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada)

To toil, to work.

To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).

I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point.

To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.

* Granville

the stone that labours up the hill

* Alexander Pope

The line too labours , and the words move slow.

* Sir Walter Scott

to cure the disorder under which he laboured

To suffer the pangs of childbirth.

(nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

(Totten)

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