Word Finder - energy

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The impetus behind all motion and all activity.

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The capacity to do work.

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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.

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An intangible, modifiable force (often characterized as either 'positive' or 'negative') believed in some New Age religions 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. (Compare aura.)

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(often plural) The external actions and influences resulting from an entity’s internal nature (ousia) and by which it is made manifest, as opposed to that internal nature itself; the aspect of an entity that can affect the wider world and be apprehended by other beings.

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A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.

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• action points

The boy was no longer sleepy, but full of energy and excitement.

Now put that energy into walking.

Vastly more energy than we need pours down on this planet in the form of sunlight.

He already felt the loss of her calm energy, but he had no idea what to do about it.

His energy rippled through her, making her gasp at the intensity of the touch that lit her blood on fire.

Before long, she was drenched and chilled, her skin crawling from the bridled charged energy of the storm.

He didn't respond, and she thought it best to direct her energy to walking rather than talking.

She channeled her energy towards it, feeding it.

I was keenly surprised and disappointed years later to learn of their acts of persecution that make us tingle with shame, even while we glory in the courage and energy that gave us our "Country Beautiful."

Bianca focused on it and channeled her healing energy towards the dark pain.

A strange energy ran between them, as if she could absorb the faint stream of his magic.

The energy around them was lively; they were brothers whose bond was formed during their years in the bowels of hell.

Now, if you acquire an ox, a new source of energy, you can plow more.

Plus, they will be able to convert heat to electricity as well, so anything that heats up will become an energy source.

If not for Yully's fading energy, Jule would've stayed to make sure Damian's version of chat resembled his and not Dusty's, who was more likely to shoot first and discuss later.

But what if that energy cost fell to zero?

If she could see and hear, I suppose she would get rid of her superfluous energy in ways which would not, perhaps, tax her brain so much, although I suspect that the ordinary child takes his play pretty seriously.

Our internal electrical system works by using cells that have built up electrical gradient or energy that can be given off to other cells by direct transfer.

There was something very different about this woman, and it was more than the feel of her energy flowing through him.

She responded, shivering at the energy that fluttered through her when their lips touched.

Or perchance, at evening, I hear him in his stable blowing off the superfluous energy of the day, that he may calm his nerves and cool his liver and brain for a few hours of iron slumber.

And the feeling of energy with which the troops had started began to turn into vexation and anger at the stupid arrangements and at the Germans.

The day was getting hot and it took too much energy to argue.

What we're doing together blows my imagination so I'll devote as much time and energy as I can possible muster to optimizing our results.

His gaze flared at his words, and the energy between them pulsed.

It's the same thing you do to change an object into another, only normal objects have far less energy to control.

If you are a farmer and work alone, you can only plant as much land as you can personally plow. You can do just a couple of thousand calories of work a day, consuming only the energy produced by the food you ate.

But is energy really scarce—or is it like air?

Houses will be built by robots using materials not yet invented that are cheaper and more energy efficient.

Believe me in war the energy of young men often shows the way better than all the experience of old Cunctators.

His absence sucked the energy from the room and she stared down at the dishwater.

Touching him sent warm energy racing through her blood.

His numerous writings, from 1823 onwards, were the reservoirs in which the entire energy of a life was stored.

The animal and the plant alike require food to repair waste, to build up new tissue and to provide material which, by chemical change, may liberate the energy which appears in the processes of life.

A problem arises because of the strong correlation between standard of living and energy consumption.

First, think of energy as the capacity to do work.

The point is that the cost of making almost everything is mostly energy and intellect, not raw materials.

An energy crop could be a permanent forest of trees that convert sunlight to liquid fuel and deliver the fuel directly through their roots to a network of underground pipelines.

That was indeed the hope for atomic energy in that era, and it did not pan out.

And in that future, I believe the world can have—in fact, will have—plentiful, free, clean energy that will result in dramatically lower costs for everything, everywhere.

One would argue that energy costs will remain high.

I think no matter what, energy costs will fall dramatically in the future, probably to near zero, because the economic incentives to unlock that technical puzzle are so overwhelming.

If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

Instead of responding, she concentrated on pulling his energy into her body then pushed it back.

The ache within her deepened at the idea of trusting someone for the first time in her life, and the energy flowing between them grew more intense.

Yully pulled what she could of his energy into her body.

No point in wasting energy screaming now.

Of the total quantity of energy incident on the earth about 40% is reflected back from the earth's atmosphere.

Marutha, who was Nestorian catholicus of Seleucia from about 540 to 552 1 and a man of exceptional energy, made the only known attempt, which was, however, unsuccessful, to provide the Nestorians with a Bible version of their own.

But this superficiality was accompanied by such wonderful acuteness within a certain range, by such an absolutely unsurpassed literary aptitude and sense of style in all the lighter and some of the graver modes of literature, by such untiring energy and versatility in enterprise, that he has no parallel among ready writers anywhere.