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ENERGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
Example:
a remarkable muscularity of style
Synonyms:
energy; muscularity; vigor; vigour; vim
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("energy" is a kind of...):
life; liveliness; spirit; sprightliness (animation and energy in action or expression)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "energy"):
verve; vitality (an energetic style)
Derivation:
energize (raise to a higher energy level)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Enterprising or ambitious drive
Example:
Europeans often laugh at American energy
Synonyms:
energy; get-up-and-go; push
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("energy" is a kind of...):
drive (the trait of being highly motivated)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "energy"):
second wind (renewed energy or strength to continue an undertaking)
Derivation:
energetic (working hard to promote an enterprise)
energize (cause to be alert and energetic)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Forceful exertion
Example:
he's full of zip
Synonyms:
energy; vigor; vigour; zip
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("energy" is a kind of...):
force; forcefulness; strength (physical energy or intensity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "energy"):
athleticism; strenuosity (intense energy)
Derivation:
energetic (possessing or exerting or displaying energy)
energize (cause to be alert and energetic)
energize (raise to a higher energy level)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977
Synonyms:
Department of Energy; DOE; Energy; Energy Department
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Energy" is a kind of...):
executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Energy"):
Department of Energy Intelligence; DOEI (an agency that collects political and economic and technical information about energy matters and makes the Department of Energy's technical and analytical expertise available to other members of the Intelligence Community)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Any source of usable power
Example:
the DOE is responsible for maintaining the energy policy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("energy" is a kind of...):
physical phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy)
Sense 6
Meaning:
(physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs
Example:
energy can take a wide variety of forms
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("energy" is a kind of...):
physical phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "energy"):
radiation (energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles)
radiant energy (energy that is transmitted in the form of (electromagnetic) radiation; energy that exists in the absence of matter)
mechanical energy (energy in a mechanical form)
heat; heat energy (a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature)
work ((physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force)
rest energy (the energy equivalent to the mass of a particle at rest in an inertial frame of reference; equal to the rest mass times the square of the speed of light)
energy level; energy state (a definite stable energy that a physical system can have; used especially of the state of electrons in atoms or molecules)
electrical energy; electricity; power (energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor)
chemical energy (that part of the energy in a substance that can be released by a chemical reaction)
binding energy; separation energy (the energy required to separate particles from a molecule or atom or nucleus; equals the mass defect)
atomic energy; nuclear energy (the energy released by a nuclear reaction)
alternative energy (energy derived from sources that do not use up natural resources or harm the environment)
activation energy; energy of activation (the energy that an atomic system must acquire before a process (such as an emission or reaction) can occur)
Derivation:
energize (cause to be alert and energetic)
energize (raise to a higher energy level)
Sense 7
Meaning:
A healthy capacity for vigorous activity
Example:
he seemed full of vim and vigor
Synonyms:
energy; vim; vitality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("energy" is a kind of...):
good health; healthiness (the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "energy"):
juice (energetic vitality)
ch'i; chi; ki; qi (the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health)
Derivation:
energetic (possessing or exerting or displaying energy)
energize (cause to be alert and energetic)
energize (raise to a higher energy level)
Context examples:
Mitotic kinesins or microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) are ATP-powered proteins that convert energy into a mechanical force along the microtubule structure following the hydrolysis of ATP, which occurs during microtubule polymerization.
(Mitotic Kinesin Modulator, NCI Thesaurus)
Computer technique for predicting conformation of protein or other macromolecule by rotating all bonds so as to minimize free energy; in looser parlance, term may refer to intramolecular motion.
(Molecular Dynamics, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
A device designed to convert energy into mechanical motion.
(Motor Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
Cells are highly variable and specialized in both structure and function, though all must at some stage replicate proteins and nucleic acids, utilize energy, and reproduce themselves.
(Murine Cell Types, NCI Thesaurus)
Once the fatty acid-carnitine is inside the matrix, CPTII exchanges CoA for carnitine to produce fatty acid-CoA once again, ready to enter fatty acid oxidation in the matrix to produce energy.
(Mitochondrial Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Insulin is a hormone your body produces to help you turn sugar from food into energy for your body.
(Metabolic Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
This process, called metabolism, makes energy and the materials needed for growth, reproduction, and maintaining health.
(Metabolite, NCI Dictionary)
A unit of energy equal to one thousandth electronvolt (10E-3 electronvolt).
(Millielectronvolt, NCI Thesaurus)
Mitochondria make most of the energy for the cell and have their own genetic material that is different from the genetic material found in the nucleus.
(Mitochondria, NCI Dictionary)
In acupuncture, the insertion of a thin needle into a specific place on the body to unlock qi (vital energy).
(Needling, NCI Dictionary)
