Enterprise vs Energy - What's the difference?
enterprise | energy | Synonyms |
A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
An undertaking or project, especially a daring and courageous one.
A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.
an active participation in projects
To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
* Dryden
* T. Otway
To treat with hospitality; to entertain.
* Spenser
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.
Enterprise is a synonym of energy.
As nouns the difference between enterprise and energy
is that enterprise is a company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor while energy is the impetus behind all motion and all activity.As a verb enterprise
is to undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.enterprise
English
(wikipedia enterprise)Alternative forms
* enterprize (chiefly archaic) * entreprise (chiefly archaic)Noun
(en noun)- The (GSEs) are a group of financial services corporations which have been created by the United States Congress.
- A micro-enterprise is defined as a business having 5 or fewer employees and a low seed capital.
- Biosphere 2 was a scientific enterprise aimed at the exploration of the complex web of interactions within life systems.
- He has shown great enterprise throughout his early career.
Synonyms
* initiativeDerived terms
* enterprising * commercial enterprise * scientific enterpriseVerb
(enterpris)- (Alexander Pope)
- The business must be enterprised this night.
- What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!
- Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprise .
energy
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Noun
(energies)Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
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