Energy vs Struggle - 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.
Strife, contention, great effort.
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, title= To strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for'' or ''against ), to contend.
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, title= To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
Energy is a related term of struggle.
As nouns the difference between energy and struggle
is that energy is the impetus behind all motion and all activity while struggle is strife, contention, great effort.As a verb struggle is
to strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight (for'' or ''against ), to contend.energy
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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
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground. He worked night and day to supplement it.}}
Verb
(struggl)Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland, passage=England were ponderous with ball in hand, their runners static when taking the ball and their lines obvious, while their front row struggled badly in the scrum.}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}