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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dynamic
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
group dynamics
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ The progress has been as dynamic, and certainly more precise, than anything produced by those great painters.
▪ Pushing the song along is drum master Elvin Jones, a bit rough on the brushes, but as dynamic as ever.
▪ A database should be as dynamic as the institution that creates it.
▪ It must be stressed that the foregoing budgeting system must be viewed as dynamic rather than static in nature.
▪ Sheila said she was thrilled to be in as dynamic and exciting a company as ours.
more
▪ In place of the rigid bureaucracies and hierarchies of many traditional companies Peters and Waterman found less conventional and more dynamic organisational forms.
▪ My performance could be more dynamic.
▪ At that time she was running the Round House and had turned it into one of London's more dynamic venues.
▪ The result is an intoxication far more dynamic and complicated than most people realize.
▪ If the process of storage is more dynamic, perhaps with multiple sites being involved, then the experiment won't work.
▪ The rising northern port of Liverpool was much more dynamic.
▪ Stephen Entwistle was not one of the younger, more dynamic doctors.
▪ In the meantime, the Government should adopt a far more dynamic approach to fiscal policy.
most
▪ Tymoshenko is the most dynamic, and won a reputation as a reformer as energy minister.
▪ Former excitable Packer matured quickly into the most dynamic quarterback in the league.
▪ It is also the world's most dynamic and successful economy.
▪ Thus, he loses some of his effectiveness with many of the most dynamic young elements in the society.
▪ The opening Vivace of No. 102 is the most dynamic and densely argued movement in all Haydn's symphonies.
▪ Health care was the most dynamic sector as 23 companies raised $ 1. 2 billion.
▪ It is without question the most dynamic sector of the economy, creating the bulk of new jobs.
▪ In fact, the Neolithic was possibly the most dynamic period in human history.
■ NOUN
force
▪ A dynamic force is a very terrible thing; it may crush you but it is not necessarily right.
▪ I would like to give you just one illustration to show what I mean by the disintegrating influence of a dynamic force.
▪ The dynamic forces within society and in the economy eventually came into conflict with a national polity which sought to avoid change.
▪ For Simmel, contradiction is not merely an instrument for, but an intrinsic condition of, the dynamic force of history.
▪ These high rates reflect the anatomy of the cervical spine and the dynamic forces that act on it.
▪ I have often thought, since writing it, how poor a picture it gave of the events and dynamic forces here.
▪ They could be likened to the dynamic force of a volcanic eruption.
nature
▪ The dynamic nature of phase equilibria can be understood by considering them in the light of the kinetic theory.
▪ It is said to be a luminous and dynamic nature capable of independent existence apart from its physical counterpart.
▪ The model was capable of taking on different shapes and widening as knowledge increases, to show this dynamic nature of communication.
▪ That is the dynamic nature of archaeology as a discipline.
process
▪ In this dynamic process, action is at least as important as perception.
▪ The development of antimicrobial resistance is a dynamic process requiring continual surveillance of organism susceptibility over time.
▪ It views writing essays not as a series of isolated events but as the dynamic process of developing a skill.
▪ Depictions of dynamic processes can show change visually over time as well as multiple factors interacting with one another.
▪ The construction of the task is a dynamic process which varies from age to age and society to society.
▪ It is an active, dynamic process, usually involving some kind of interaction with a person or object.
▪ It may even have a permanent effect due to the dynamic process generating economies of scale.
▪ Economic dominance can not be viewed in a static framework but as a dynamic process with a continual shifting of dominance.
relationship
▪ The piano appears to be located just behind the strings and in correct dynamic relationship throughout.
▪ Mathematics, literature, social studies, and science offer them different ways to think about dynamic relationships within the whole.
▪ Certainly Bolam stresses the dynamic relationship between the two in the process of change.
▪ Central to Piagetian psychology is a dynamic relationship between the processes of accommodation and assimilation.
▪ I like to design things that can be made simply but create a dynamic relationship when the elemental parts are put together.
▪ There is, of course, always the problem in economic analysis of interpreting the dynamic relationships between factors of production.
system
▪ By contrast, a dynamic system involves delegation to the lawmaker of the determination of the content of the decision.
▪ Contrary to systems that could be under-stood by old-fashioned reductionism, these dynamic systems exhibited emergent behavior.
▪ Gallant talks about the ease of extending the techniques for dynamic systems with on-line learning and noisy data.
▪ He conceptualizes a network in terms of its energy and the physics of dynamic systems.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a dynamic young businesswoman
▪ Markets are dynamic and a company must learn to adapt.
▪ She is clearly a dynamic young woman with big ambitions.
▪ What this country needs is dynamic and inspiring leadership!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An ability to model dynamic aspects of literatures mathematically, with good to excellent fits.
▪ If the process of storage is more dynamic, perhaps with multiple sites being involved, then the experiment won't work.
▪ Markets arc dynamic and for ever changing.
▪ Robots operating in dynamic environments would need to have an internal model of their world.
▪ They must be portable, and so they must be dynamic rather dean static.
▪ Thus, he loses some of his effectiveness with many of the most dynamic young elements in the society.
▪ Training after a main event should be much less dynamic and should concentrate on improving technique in preparation for the next competition.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Feminism is seen as a dynamic of social change.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The new mushroom dynamic has stunned amateur mycologists, by nature a gentle breed.
▪ Unfortunately, after he had to sell Painshill in 1773 in order to repay Henry Fox's loan, the dynamic was lost.
▪ Yet as constraints on funding begin to bite a new dynamic is becoming apparent.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dynamic

Dynamic \Dy*nam"ic\, Dynamical \Dy*nam"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ? powerful, fr. ? power, fr. ? to be able; cf. L. durus hard, E. dure: cf. F. dynamique.]

  1. Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force.

    Science, as well as history, has its past to show, -- a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine.
    --J. Martineau.

    The vowel is produced by phonetic, not by dynamic, causes.
    --J. Peile.

  2. Relating to physical forces, effects, or laws; as, dynamical geology.

    As natural science has become more dynamic, so has history.
    --Prof. Shedd.

    Dynamical electricity. See under Electricity.

    Note: WordNet lists a number of narrower terms for dynamic and

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dynamic

1817 as a term in philosophy; 1827 in the sense "pertaining to force producing motion" (the opposite of static), from French dynamique introduced by German mathematician Gottfried Leibnitz (1646-1716) in 1691 from Greek dynamikos "powerful," from dynamis "power," from dynasthai "to be able, to have power, be strong enough," which is of unknown origin. The figurative sense of "active, potent, energetic" is from 1856 (in Emerson). Related: Dynamically.

dynamic

"energetic force; motive force," 1894, from dynamic (adj.).

Wiktionary
dynamic

a. 1 Changing; active; in motion. 2 powerful; energetic. 3 able to change and adapt. 4 (context music English) Having to do with the volume of sound. 5 (context computing English) Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time. 6 Pertaining to dynamics, the branch of mechanics concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects. n. 1 A characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior. 2 (context music English) The varying loudness or volume of a song or the markings that indicate the loudness. 3 (context music English) A symbol in a musical score that indicates the desired level of volume.

WordNet
dynamic

n. an efficient incentive; "they hoped it would act as a spiritual dynamic on all churches" [syn: moral force]

dynamic
  1. adj. characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality; "a dynamic market"; "a dynamic speaker"; "the dynamic president of the firm" [syn: dynamical] [ant: undynamic]

  2. of or relating to dynamics

  3. expressing action rather than a state of being; used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water') [syn: active] [ant: stative]

Wikipedia
Dynamic (record label)

Dynamic is an Italian independent record label located in Genoa. Founded in 1978, it specialises in classical music and opera, especially rarely performed works and has produced several world premiere recordings. The Dynamic catalogue contains over 400 titles, with about 25 new titles added each year and is distributed in 32 countries.

Usage examples of "dynamic".

They are like the colossal strides of approaching Fate, and this awfulness is twice raised to a higher power, first by a searching, syncopated phrase in the violins which hovers loweringly over them, and next by a succession of afrighted minor scales ascending crescendo and descending piano, the change in dynamics beginning abruptly as the crest of each terrifying wave is reached.

His metaphysics is closely akin to that of the symbolists: it is a mysticism of impersonal forces that he has associated with the dynamic philosophy of Heraclitus the Dark.

Lars Aquavit, who proved to be a funny man with dynamic stories to tell, I had few dealings with them.

It is configured ab initio as a dynamic and flexible systemic structure that is articulated horizontally.

Strong authentication for remote access to corporate systems Policy: All connection points into the corporate network from remote locations must be protected through the use of strong authentication devices, such as dynamic passwords or biometrics.

Maryland Maryland is a fast-growing state boasting a dynamic economy based on giving speeding tickets to people attempting to drive through.

This dynamic state is a vacation paradise, boasting a population, an average annual rainfall, and historical significance.

Against this effort the industrial towns, led by Ghent, rose in revolt under Jacob van Artevelde, one of the most dynamic bourgeois figures of the 14th century.

For example, when a cylindrical and fibrous porter deposits his sensitive burden in the vesicular and cineritious substance, something examines it, tests its import, reflects on what shall be done, forms an intelligent resolution, and commands another porter to bear the dynamic load forth.

But, leaving aside all such incidental speculations, the chief interest of the dynamic atomistic or monad theory, as affording a solid basis for immortality, is in relation to the arrogance of a shallow and conceited materialism.

Extensive research by the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI academy and in-depth interviews with incarcerated felons who have committed such crimes have provided a vast body of knowledge of common elements, that link crime scene dynamics to specific criminal personality patterns.

Sydney did assure him that Sebastian intended to discuss his unexpected abilities with him when next they met, and Dagon laughed once again having expected nothing less from a man as practical and dynamic as Sebastian Wainwright.

Newton and his successors up to our own day, to try to conceive the world dynamically within the limits of their spectator-consciousness and thus to form a dynamic interpretation of the universe based on its heliocentric aspect.

But the strict sense, the etymon of the word nobility is essentially dynamic.

There would be a multitude of disputes, often intentionally misinterpreted, to resolve territorial and jurisdictional differences that were already caught up in and molded by the dynamics of orbiting planets, and their satellites and connecting space-ways.