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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
energy
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
alternative energy (=energy produced by the sun, wind etc rather than by gas, coal etc)
▪ sources of alternative energy
an energy source
▪ We hope to see increased usage of renewable energy sources.
an energy/oil/fuel crisis
▪ There is an energy crisis here, with power cuts happening daily.
atomic energy
be bursting with pride/energy/excitement etc
▪ Your mum’s bursting with pride for you.
concentrate your efforts/attention/energy/mind etc on sth
▪ I’m concentrating my efforts on writing my autobiography.
defence/energy/housing etc policy
▪ Our energy policies must put the environment first.
devote your time/energy/attention etc to sth
▪ He devoted his energies to writing films.
drained of energy
▪ I felt depressed and completely drained of energy.
energy consumption
▪ Over a quarter of our energy consumption is in the home.
energy efficiency (=using energy in an efficient way)
▪ Energy efficiency can play a huge role in reducing pollution.
energy requirements (=the amount of energy a place or person needs)
▪ 65 percent of the country’s energy requirements were met by imported oil.
energy resources
▪ The country has few energy resources of its own.
energy/fitness level
▪ Her fitness level is better than that of most 20-year-olds.
energy/fuel efficient (=not wasting any fuel or energy)
▪ an energy efficient heating system
expend energy/effort/time/resources etc
▪ People of different ages expend different amounts of energy.
▪ Manufacturers have expended a lot of time and effort trying to improve computer security.
flagging spirits/energy/morale
▪ By now the wine had lifted her flagging spirits.
full of excitement/energy/hope etc
▪ Lucy was a happy child, always full of life.
▪ He was full of praise for the work of the unit.
muster (up) the courage/confidence/energy etc to do sth
▪ Finally I mustered up the courage to ask her out.
nuclear energy
▪ France’s reliance on nuclear energy
potential energy
renewable energy
▪ renewable energy such as solar power
sap sb’s strength/courage/energy
▪ Her long illness was gradually sapping Charlotte’s strength.
wave energy/power (=electricity from the movement of waves)
▪ Wave power involves using the movement of the seas to generate electricity.
youthful enthusiasm/energy/vigour
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alternative
▪ It is 40 percent more expensive than coal, and there is an abundance of alternative energy sources.
▪ Any and all ideas about alternative sources of energy are seriously being considered and explored.
▪ The nuclear plants will not be phased out until the alternative energy sources are ready to come on-stream, however.
▪ This requires the development of alternative sources of energy that are either renewable or inexhaustible.
▪ It would pay for time on military computers and research on alternative energy sources and methods of cleaning polluted soil and water.
▪ Like the oil crisis of the 1970s, the California energy crisis is fueling an investment boom in alternative energy.
▪ However, I found the short section on conservation and alternative energy sources disappointing.
▪ The hazard of this diet was that patients had to have an alternative source of energy so they turned to fat.
atomic
▪ This light is tuned so that the photon energy exactly matches the desired atomic transition energy.
▪ Still, I catch glimpses of the same atomic energy she has always had, the same joie de vivre.
▪ Substantial amounts have been earmarked for energy - mainly to a new agency for energy management and the atomic energy agency.
▪ We had great difficulty getting information on the atomic energy privatisation measure.
▪ These two effects split the atomic energy levels into several components, producing the so-called hyperfine structure.
▪ Singh proposed that industrial licences be abolished except in certain strategic sectors such as the arms industry, atomic energy and strategic minerals.
free
▪ According to Helmholtz, the free energy F in a system always tends towards a minimum.
▪ The standard free energy change of a reaction can be calculated in two ways.
▪ Early quantum mechanics required that interactions between sub-nuclear particles and atoms occur in spaces which are free of energy and mass.
▪ We have already seen that Gibbs free energy is useful in two ways.
▪ The free energy of any substance decreases with increasing temperature.
▪ You can also ask them for their three FREE booklets on energy saving.
full
▪ They were - and are - a hardy people, full of energy and unafraid.
▪ The nationalization of the electricity sector followed 22 years later, bringing the full energy spectrum under state control.
▪ Kids are fearless and full of energy, and no parent can watch them 24 hours a day.
▪ By the evening they are still full of energy when the early risers wilt.
▪ Like many untalented people, he was full of futile energy.
▪ The Republicans in Congress may be full of energy and ideas.
▪ Helen's swollen stomach was finally becoming noticeable, but she still seemed slim and full of energy.
▪ Only as these islands coalesce is the full Madelung energy involved, producing the observed increase in adsorption heat with coverage.
great
▪ It seemed as though a valve had burst inside her and a great gush of energy was being released.
▪ The president, Arista, Bustamante, and other leaders in the field displayed great energy and vigor in meeting these challenges.
▪ Vlasov showed great energy and leadership qualities, transforming his division into a conspicuous example of efficiency.
▪ Do pray Father, for it will demand a great deal of energy from these old bones.
▪ To dance to them throughout the night required a great deal of energy and agility.
▪ He was a man of great energy, ability and ruthlessness.
▪ Fowler was a man of great energy and enthusiasm and pursued his wide interests in many fields of engineering with great vigour.
▪ A great deal of energy is wasted in this process.
high
▪ Smaller animals can therefore live where there is less food, provided that it is of high energy content.
▪ Sleep onset insomnia is also a problem for people who have an extremely high energy level.
▪ Microwaves create very short, high energy radio-waves which agitate and heat water molecules on or near the surface of foods.
▪ This moves their orbital electrons from the ground state to a higher energy level that is unstable.
▪ The Kimberley area is rich in crystalline deposits; thus the rocks have high energy content.
▪ Stage I-Getting started. High energy, but some mistakes.
▪ He identified pharmacy, high energy physics and architecture as being over-represented in the universities.
▪ No doubt they had been working since they could walk and high energy output was a habit.
kinetic
▪ The two comets are entirely ablated, whereas the stony objects lose most of their kinetic energy to deceleration, not ablation.
▪ For gravitational energy is negative, while rest mass and kinetic energy are positive.
▪ The kinetic energy, or energy of motion, of the ship has been exchanged for strain energy in the rope.
▪ It is a measure of the average kinetic energy of all the particles in a system.
▪ Velocity is important. Kinetic energy frees the brain and confuses the enemy.
▪ In the first case they had enough kinetic energy to make it; in the second case they did not.
▪ The kinetic energy lost by a body of mass m rising through the same distance is remarkably similar:.
▪ Rapidly the temperature climbed to 5000 C as friction with the atmosphere turned the kinetic energy of the craft into heat.
low
▪ The one at lower energy is a sharp doublet with essentially no progression, just one pair of weak satellites.
▪ In elements with multiple electron orbits, the smallest orbits correspond with the lowest energy and these fill up first.
▪ Despite the adverse effect of lower output, energy efficiency has been maintained at the 1990 level.
▪ Steel and shipbuilding have been replaced by low energy industries - electronics, microprocessors, information technology and various service industries.
▪ Viewed under a low energy ultra-violet lamp, structures such as cross-lamination and bioturbation fluoresce bright blue and yellow.
▪ It is complementary to low energy electron diffraction, which probes long range order - ie a minimum domain size of 100-200A/9.
▪ Crystal cleanliness and crystallinity were checked by Auger electron spectroscopy and low energy electron diffraction, respectively.
▪ It was also the aim to find bricks that had a low embodied energy from their manufacturing process.
nervous
▪ There, often with Susan Einzig as his partner, his nervous energy became concentrated, dervish-like, into a trance-like state.
▪ During contests he was as jumpy as a schoolgirl and gave off a static charge of nervous energy.
▪ She felt elated and furious, and trembled with nervous energy.
▪ The world might end at any moment; the illustrations of ninth-century Apocalypses are charged with innovation and nervous energy.
▪ He's been living on his reserves of nervous energy for the past couple of weeks.
▪ She was exhausting company, not because she argued but because there was a constant play of restless nervous energy in her.
nuclear
▪ Juries may not understand the niceties of nuclear energy, but they can distinguish right and wrong.
▪ Indigenous oil discoveries proved disappointing and efforts have been directed towards hydro-electric power, nuclear and geothermal energy.
▪ S., restrict certain investments in, for example, nuclear energy.
▪ Towards this end, agreements were signed on fishing, trade, environmental protection and the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
▪ No one had believed that day would ever come. Nuclear energy was the wave of the future.
▪ By then nuclear energy should be contributing more than one-fifth of electricity generation.
▪ This is just the latest example of the threat to free information and even free speech presented by the nuclear energy lobby.
potential
▪ The third property of a polymer which affects its mechanical behaviour is the between-chain potential energy.
▪ This would lead into a study of kinetic and potential energy.
▪ A similar disregard for the potential for renewable energy was evident if the expenditure on subsidy was analysed.
▪ There is also gravitational potential energy.
▪ One interesting potential source of energy in the Third World is the water hyacinth and other aquatic weeds.
▪ Systems tend to a minimum in potential energy.
▪ It loses potential energy until it reaches a minimum at the bottom of the hill.
▪ Moreover, when the cells form tissue they bring their energy level into line with the potential surface energy of the tissue.
renewable
▪ For this reason, renewable energy investment was not yet sufficiently attractive to retail investors.
▪ Double government spending on renewable energy research.
▪ We aren't powered by renewable energy.
▪ The answer is simple - make energy efficiency a number one global priority and speed up the development of renewable energy technologies.
▪ Energy efficiency and renewable energy go hand in hand.
▪ Attention should be focused on developing renewable energy sources, he said.
▪ A similar disregard for the potential for renewable energy was evident if the expenditure on subsidy was analysed.
▪ Today, he will have benefited greatly from hearing exactly what is the Government's policy on renewable energy.
solar
▪ Much of the expansion in solar energy has been funded with loans from international lending institutions.
▪ We now know that solar energy is an idea whose time has come.
▪ The most important are nuclear fission, wind, wave and tidal energy sources and solar energy by direct conversion and biomass.
▪ He wondered again about its black color; that was ideal, of course, for absorbing solar energy.
▪ In addition to stimulating specific projects, a research centre for solar energy is due to be established.
▪ Also, the monsoon overcast tended to cut down the amount of solar energy available.
▪ Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s.
▪ Engineers have recently experimented with the concept of capturing solar energy.
total
▪ Thus, in patients with carbohydrate malabsorption the colon may play an important role in meeting total energy needs.
▪ As much as several percent of the total energy of an entering meteor is radiated as light and heat.
▪ The answer is that the total energy of the universe is exactly zero.
▪ The total energy return is enough to meet all human power needs for several hundred years.
▪ Deciding - consciously or not - to expend energy involves a choice and an assessment of the total energy available.
▪ This is more than the total explosive energy of all the nuclear weapons on Earth.
▪ There will also be an increase in the proportion of total energy demand accounted for by coal.
▪ It is the global cost, the total energy input.
■ NOUN
conservation
▪ Predicting fuel consumption and the effects of energy conservation practices has had only limited success.
▪ Payback period analysis is frequently used in assessing the merits of energy conservation investments.
▪ Air pollution and energy conservation aside, private vehicles also come under attack when we consider rural and urban environments.
▪ In 1999, the Water and Light Department did not make any energy conservation grants attributable to the two arenas.
▪ In the true spirit of energy conservation chose a bicycle for his gift.
▪ The law of energy conservation is a very important physical principle.
▪ It was the rise in world crude prices which brought energy conservation seriously into view.
▪ Instead of energy conservation, they advocate building more dams and nuclear plants.
consumption
▪ We will introduce new product labels, showing information such as energy consumption during use and the environmental impact of the production process.
▪ Within 18 months, they had reduced energy consumption by 30 percent.
▪ The overheating causes an increase in overall energy consumption of only 7 %.
▪ The council has managed to reduce its overall energy consumption by 16 percent since 1979.
▪ In most developed countries, cooking would account for less than 5 percent of national energy consumption.
▪ The cost of a tube is small compared with the cost of energy consumption over the lifetime of the tube.
▪ In 1983 this, the cheapest of all electricity sources, accounted for 75% of energy consumption.
▪ A model system relates energy consumption to emissions of sulphur and nitrogen oxide emissions.
costs
▪ As well as the more obvious things like reducing energy costs and recycling where possible, the community is benefiting from the programme.
▪ The county had budgeted $ 13.5 million for energy costs in the 2000-2001 fiscal year.
▪ Tony Durham Mains signalling is both a domestic luxury and a way to cut industry's energy costs.
▪ In October, supervisors learned the county was $ 10.7 million over budget on its energy costs.
▪ Their raw material and energy costs would rise, while being deprived of their previous government subsidies.
▪ Supervisors said then they might have to consider budget cuts to make up for the energy costs.
▪ This low growth will result from such factors as inflation, energy costs, environmental constraint and low population growth.
▪ Ekard believes the county can absorb the extra energy costs this year.
crisis
▪ The forgotten energy crisis Energy for cooking is one of the biggest human needs.
▪ The Senate alone has no fewer than 60 special bills related to the energy crisis.
▪ The Third World faces an energy crisis even without the problems posed by global warming.
▪ Along with the increased possibilities of a recession, the energy crisis was immediately followed by a new inflationary leap.
▪ They had been on to the energy crisis, for example, years before it hit politics.
▪ The so-called energy crisis is really a fossil fuel crisis.
demand
▪ Lee Schipper, an energy demand analyst from the Lawrence Laboratory in California, agreed.
▪ The environmental impact of humans' future energy demand needs further examination.
▪ This stood at 21% of energy demand in 1973 and was at only 22% in 1983.
▪ There will also be an increase in the proportion of total energy demand accounted for by coal.
▪ Coal consumption will fall from 13% of energy demand in 1983 to 11% in the year 2000.
▪ Lalonde said that the government would seek alternative solutions to the energy demands of farmers and industrialists.
▪ Even electricity demand, which has historically grown faster than total energy demand, decreases in two of the five scenarios.
▪ According to Johansson, government planners typically assess how energy demand has grown alongside economic growth.
efficiency
▪ Conservation or energy efficiency is still the fifth fuel.
▪ But Clinton insists that new technologies will improve energy efficiency, enabling developing countries to continue economic growth without increasing emissions.
▪ Both groups favour investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.
▪ So there is no significant push towards energy efficiency when houses are built or rehabilitated.
▪ Despite the adverse effect of lower output, energy efficiency has been maintained at the 1990 level.
▪ Can energy efficiency and a greater dependence on natural gas cut carbon emissions sufficiently on their own?
▪ Home energy efficiency is increasingly seen as a route to a reduction in national greenhouse gas emissions.
level
▪ The most fruitful studies have been based on calculated energy levels.
▪ Has experienced a change in one of the following: appetite, sleep patterns, concentration or energy levels? 3.
▪ The quantum numbers represent energy levels.
▪ Thermodynamic entropy draws all chemical reactions down to their minimal energy level.
▪ Quite simply, the core energy levels for atoms of a particular element depend on its environment.
▪ In these positions, qualities such as energy level, telephone voice, and sales ability take precedence over educational attainment.
▪ Sunday's different, energy levels are low and you can't summon the strength or stamina to do anything.
▪ With laser techniques, however, the molecular energy levels of the impurities are quite different from the atomic ones.
policy
▪ Hence security of supply continues to be a major objective of Community energy policy.
▪ Fox has voiced support for President Bush's call for a regional energy policy.
▪ He said Britain needed an integrated energy policy.
▪ The dumping of Kyoto and the new energy policy have similarly been clothed in soothing words of environmental concern.
▪ We would not have needed much of today's debate if we had a proper energy policy.
▪ Our energy policy consists of two legs.
▪ His as-yet unpublished review concludes that conservation has had little impact on overall energy policy.
price
▪ Shortages of imported oil sparked lines at gas stations and sent energy prices skyrocketing.
▪ Cold weather caused temporary rise in energy prices.
▪ Solidarity agreed to hold talks with Olszewski over energy prices.
▪ Her sin was to say that energy prices in this country are too low.
▪ The nuclear programme was embarked upon against a background of rising oil and energy prices.
▪ The forecasters expect some decline in energy prices and a smaller increase in food prices.
▪ It was announced on Feb. 18 that energy prices would increase by 30 percent from April 1.
▪ Sluggish gold and energy prices for most of 1995 helped explain investors' reluctance to venture into hard assets.
source
▪ It is 40 percent more expensive than coal, and there is an abundance of alternative energy sources.
▪ Down on the factory floor, automatic control had the expected virtue of moderating high-powered energy sources as mentioned earlier.
▪ The Building Research Establishment give the following figures for the emission of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour for different energy sources.
▪ Fusion of light isotopes is the energy source that powers the Sun and the stars.
▪ The ultimate aim is to replace gasoline altogether by using battery power or other non-polluting energy sources.
▪ The most important are nuclear fission, wind, wave and tidal energy sources and solar energy by direct conversion and biomass.
▪ But they are strongly opposed to his expected tax on oil, coal and other energy sources.
supply
▪ On days when your toddler's energy supply seems endless, you really need to get him out of the house.
▪ Millions of informed people are concerned about future energy supplies for Earth.
▪ Reddy disagrees with the assumption that such expensive energy supply is necessary.
▪ Perata said his figure was a fraction of the amount the state is now spending on emergency energy supplies.
▪ They use solar collectors and windmills for energy supply and each region aims at self-sufficiency in proteins.
▪ The renewable energy sources must eventually dominate world energy supply.
▪ Wouldn't it be nice not to have to worry about your energy supply?
use
▪ If these sources were included, renewable energy would contribute about 18 percent of current world energy use.
▪ Your electric bill will not necessarily be larger, because per-capita energy use may then be only half what it is now.
▪ Environmental pressures will also require a drive towards greater efficiency in energy use.
▪ Ungainly as that may sound, it is efficient in terms of energy use.
▪ These measurements, which will show trends in energy use, identify areas needing urgent attention.
▪ If this would otherwise be done leaving food out or in the refrigerator, then the microwave actually adds to energy use.
▪ The major theme is a consideration of the interrelationships between various patterns of energy use and possible global warming.
▪ The result is higher mileage, more energy use and more pollution.
■ VERB
convert
▪ The action of the lungs works like a bellows which enriches the internal fire where food is converted into energy.
▪ This occurs as the result of toxins that form as mechanical energy is converted to electrical energy.
▪ In effect, they convert the energy of the electromagnetic radiation into chemical energy.
▪ Because the truth would emerge as soon as you converted the energy into a different form.
▪ This is about the energy that would be released if a hydrogen atom could be totally converted into energy.
▪ He showed converting energy from the sun into useful forms was scientifically possible.
▪ All these provide indirect means of converting solar energy to forms of energy which are useful to us.
▪ The sensing element of a scintillation counter is a fluor, a substance capable of converting radiation energy to light energy.
devote
▪ As for the moody magnetism Method actors devote all their energy trying to perfect, Allen can take it or leave it.
▪ They acknowledged that they should devote time and energy to developing relationships with those outside their unit.
▪ The person decides consciously or not to devote time and energy to a particular activity.
▪ Well, for one thing, they devote time, energy, and community resources to creating great works of spiritual art.
▪ They may also have to devote energy searching for services to which the child has a right.
▪ A low-performing organization that continues to devote scarce time and energy to the pursuit of remote goals is courting disappointment.
▪ They began to see that devoting time and energy to this endeavor bore fruit.
expend
▪ Pushing heavy crates expends a lot of energy, so planning would be appropriate in that task too.
▪ When people are fighting against their environment, they are expending energy that would be better directed toward other goals.
▪ Deciding - consciously or not - to expend energy involves a choice and an assessment of the total energy available.
▪ Some expend tremendous energy desperately trying to stop the clock.
▪ And because dense bones tend to sink, black swimmers need to work much harder and expend more energy to keep afloat.
▪ The forest had already been defoliated and the oaks and aspens were expending precious energy sending out a second flush of leaves.
▪ Although exercise becomes more difficult as weight is gained, you expend more energy simply staying alive the heavier you are.
▪ Few commanders would have wished to expend the time and energy required to overcome places so heavily defended.
produce
▪ The first was that it seemed to be producing energy from some almost limitless source, albeit slowly.
▪ This produces energy and also unwanted lethal products whose disposal is the source of much political concern.
▪ Not to be missed is Water at Work, in which peddling a bicycle produces the energy necessary to create a tornado.
▪ That is true even if incineration produces energy that can be sold, or if recycling recovers sellable materials.
▪ That they use leaves to produce the energy they need to sustain life?
▪ Carbon dioxide is taken out of the water by plants to photosynthesise and produce energy.
▪ Like humans, yeast cells prefer to burn their glucose with oxygen to produce energy.
provide
▪ Athletes such as Boris Becker are fans of the fruit because it is easily digested to provide an instant energy high.
▪ It was supposed that burning wood, trash, and the like would provide for our energy needs.
▪ One tube is not enough to provide the necessary light energy for photosynthesis.
▪ The definition of food can include both solids and liquids which provide sources of energy.
▪ Most caddies today have a basic idea of what is good for their player during a round to provide slow-burning energy.
▪ They had done this using processes analogous to those which provided the energy of the Sun.
▪ Both carbohydrates and fats provide plentiful sources of energy.
▪ Elongated bodies, the mitochondria, provide energy by burning oxygen in much the same way as many bacteria do.
reduce
▪ The council has managed to reduce its overall energy consumption by 16 percent since 1979.
▪ Within 18 months, they had reduced energy consumption by 30 percent.
▪ Computers will reduce our energy needs, according to Dertouzos.
▪ Heat recycling pumps use little power themselves and improve heat distribution, reducing the amount of energy needed to heat the house.
▪ It must also ask whether we should concentrate more on actually reducing our demand for energy in the first place.
▪ The programme also offers advice on reducing consumption of energy and raw materials.
▪ Other companies are also looking for ways to reduce the amount of energy consumed in the major processes for making polymers.
▪ If successful, it will be introduced into all stores to reduce energy consumption by up to 10%.
release
▪ It is also possible to release stored energy suddenly, resulting in a violent reflex contraction of the back muscles.
▪ But unlike prehistoric man, you have far fewer ways to release the energy produced by the stress response.
▪ For himself, he finds that the sitting posture most effectively releases his contemplative energy.
▪ Like yeast, the cells in our bodies usually burn glucose with oxygen because it releases so much energy.
▪ Iron nuclei have the largest binding energy per nucleon; hence neither fission nor fusion can release further energy.
▪ That means that the two quakes released identical amounts of energy.
▪ The compressed gas expands explosively, releasing energy into the speed of the molecules8.
require
▪ In fact, breaking one of the bonds, by pulling an electron out of it, requires a lot of energy.
▪ The whole system requires enormous amounts of energy.
▪ Clearly, the process requires energy.
▪ National and Statewide campaigns also require massive amounts of energy and stamina, as well as superior fund raising skills.
▪ It is often eaten by athletes who require gradually released energy for long distance events.
▪ Making profitable decisions requires energy, stamina and a good blood supply to the brain.
▪ Every bit of information processed requires energy.
▪ The maintenance of transparency requires energy.
save
▪ But topping out with computerised control can save energy by matching usage accurately with need.
▪ According to Jorgensen, there are simple ways to save energy in the household without dramatic lifestyle changes.
▪ Movements and posture used daily when doing different jobs or in different occupations can save or squander energy.
▪ Automaticsetback thermostats should be used on all systems, to save energy when you are asleep or away.
▪ Induction cooking saves energy in a number of ways.
▪ It seems we use more time and energy on the technology that was supposed to save us time and energy.
▪ Of course we must save 25 percent of energy through better insulation and so on.
▪ Now, everybody seems to have a plan to boost supply or save energy.
spend
▪ Double government spending on renewable energy research.
▪ Pick and choose how you spend your time and energy.
▪ Yet Barclays and Lloyds have spent much time and energy privately rubbishing Switch, in efforts to promote their own debit cards.
▪ Perata said his figure was a fraction of the amount the state is now spending on emergency energy supplies.
▪ Taking Breaks to Increase Productivity Productivity increases as we spend more time and energy, but only up to a critical point.
▪ Brown has spent much of his energy during his first six weeks working on Muni.
▪ Government spending on energy efficiency has decreased by £9.5 million since 1985.
▪ Why the hell they can't spend their energy pursuing the likes of is beyond me.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
energy-intensive/knowledge-intensive etc
every (last) ounce of courage/energy/strength etc
▪ It had taken every ounce of courage she possessed to board the aircraft after her last experience.
time/money/energy waster
▪ Although it is easy to dismiss meetings as time wasters, the above indicates why you should take them seriously.
▪ Cons: Writing with pen and paper is perhaps one of the greatest time wasters in the business world.
▪ FoE pinpointed fridges, light bulbs, washing machines, dishwashers, televisions, and tumble driers as energy wasters.
▪ Good experience and dedication, no time wasters.
▪ Romantic as it may be, a fireplace without glass doors is a real energy waster.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Certain vitamins can give you more energy, if you're always feeling tired.
▪ I don't have the time or the energy to go out in the evenings.
▪ nuclear energy
▪ She's got tremendous energy and a huge capacity for hard work.
▪ the world's energy resources
▪ Watkins will need more than energy and experience to turn the department around.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cassidy certainly has energy, if you consider he will be 62 in June.
▪ Do we actually come out ahead by carrying out this scheme, trading uranium energy for helium-3 energy?
▪ He teaches that essential oils can also be used to balance the subtle energy forces in the body similar to acupuncture.
▪ However, far more use is made of geothermal energy for direct heat.
▪ In a multi-electron atom, the lowest energy shells fill up first.
▪ Only children had the energy for play, the adults were in a permanent state of weariness.
▪ These equations affect inputs, memory, recall, determination of energy levels, convergence, and stability.
▪ Vortex missile ... ... creates a whirlpool of seething energy ... ... our only vortex missile.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Energy

Energy \En"er*gy\, n.; pl. Energies. [F. ['e]nergie, LL. energia, fr. Gr.?, fr. ? active; ? in + ? work. See In, and Work.]

  1. Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.

    The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects.
    --Paley.

  2. Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.

  3. Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.

  4. (Physics) Capacity for performing work.

    Note: The kinetic energy of a body is the energy it has in virtue of being in motion. It is measured by one half of the product of the mass of each element of the body multiplied by the square of the velocity of the element, relative to some given body or point. The available kinetic energy of a material system unconnected with any other system is that energy which is due to the motions of the parts of the system relative to its center of mass. The potential energy of a body or system is that energy which is not kinetic; -- energy due to configuration. Kinetic energy is sometimes called actual energy. Kinetic energy is exemplified in the vis viva of moving bodies, in heat, electric currents, etc.; potential energy, in a bent spring, or a body suspended a given distance above the earth and acted on by gravity.

    Accumulation, Conservation, Correlation, & Degradation of energy, etc. (Physics) See under Accumulation, Conservation, Correlation, etc.

    Syn: Force; power; potency; vigor; strength; spirit; efficiency; resolution.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
energy

1590s, "force of expression," from Middle French énergie (16c.), from Late Latin energia, from Greek energeia "activity, action, operation," from energos "active, working," from en "at" (see en- (2)) + ergon "work, that which is wrought; business; action" (see organ).\n

\nUsed by Aristotle with a sense of "actuality, reality, existence" (opposed to "potential") but this was misunderstood in Late Latin and afterward as "force of expression," as the power which calls up realistic mental pictures. Broader meaning of "power" in English is first recorded 1660s. Scientific use is from 1807. Energy crisis first attested 1970.

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Wiktionary
energy

n. The impetus behind all motion and all activity.

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WordNet
energy

  1. n. (physics) the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs; "energy can take a wide variety of forms"

  2. an exertion of force; "he plays tennis with great energy" [syn: vigor, vigour]

  3. enterprising or ambitious drive; "Europeans often laugh at American energy" [syn: push, get-up-and-go]

  4. an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy" [syn: vigor, vigour, vim]

  5. a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor" [syn: vim, vitality]

  6. the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977 [syn: Department of Energy, Energy Department, DOE]

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Gazetteer
Energy, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 1175
Housing Units (2000): 519
Land area (2000): 1.185826 sq. miles (3.071276 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.008844 sq. miles (0.022907 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.194670 sq. miles (3.094183 sq. km)
FIPS code: 24166
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 37.772398 N, 89.025519 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Energy (Operation Ivy album)

Energy is the only studio album by the American ska punk band Operation Ivy. It was originally released only on vinyl and cassette in March 1989 through Lookout! Records (LK 010). It was remastered and re-released on CD by Lookout! Records in 1991 as an eponymous release with an additional 8 tracks from the band's Hectic EP and the Maximumrocknroll double 7-inch compilation Turn It Around!. Energy has been cited as one of the most important albums of the ska punk genre.

Hellcat Records re-released the original album as a 12-inch LP picture disc in 2004, and in 2007 re-released a remastered version of the self-titled CD.

Hellcat reissued the original album again with a digital download code on .

Energy (signal processing)

In signal processing, the energy E of a continuous-time signal x(t) is defined as


E  =  ⟨x(t), x(t)⟩  = ∫∣x(t)∣dt

the energy E of a discrete-time signal x(n) is defined as


E  =  ⟨x(n), x(n)⟩  = ∑∣x(n)∣

Energy (psychological)

Mental energy or psychic energy is a concept in some psychological theories or models of a postulated unconscious mental functioning on a level between biology and consciousness.

Energy (esotericism)

The term energy is used by writers and practitioners of various esoteric forms of spirituality and alternative medicine to refer to a variety of phenomena. There is no scientific evidence for the existence of such energy.

Therapies that purport to use, modify, or manipulate unknown energies are thus among the most contentious of all complementary and alternative medicines. Claims related to energy therapies are most often anecdotal, rather than being based on repeatable empirical evidence.

Energy

In physics, energy is a property of objects which can be transferred to other objects or converted into different forms. The "ability of a system to perform work" is a common description, but it is misleading because energy is not necessarily available to do work. For instance, in SI units, energy is measured in joules, and one joule is defined "mechanically", being the energy transferred to an object by the mechanical work of moving it a distance of 1 metre against a force of 1 newton. However, there are many other definitions of energy, depending on the context, such as thermal energy, radiant energy, electromagnetic, nuclear, etc., where definitions are derived that are the most convenient.

Common energy forms include the kinetic energy of a moving object, the potential energy stored by an object's position in a force field ( gravitational, electric or magnetic), the elastic energy stored by stretching solid objects, the chemical energy released when a fuel burns, the radiant energy carried by light, and the thermal energy due to an object's temperature. All of the many forms of energy are convertible to other kinds of energy. In Newtonian physics, there is a universal law of conservation of energy which says that energy can be neither created nor be destroyed; however, it can change from one form to another.

For "closed systems" with no external source or sink of energy, the first law of thermodynamics states that a system's energy is constant unless energy is transferred in or out by mechanical work or heat, and that no energy is lost in transfer. This means that it is impossible to create or destroy energy. While heat can always be fully converted into work in a reversible isothermal expansion of an ideal gas, for cyclic processes of practical interest in heat engines the second law of thermodynamics states that the system doing work always loses some energy as waste heat. This creates a limit to the amount of heat energy that can do work in a cyclic process, a limit called the available energy. Mechanical and other forms of energy can be transformed in the other direction into thermal energy without such limitations. The total energy of a system can be calculated by adding up all forms of energy in the system.

Examples of energy transformation include generating electric energy from heat energy via a steam turbine, or lifting an object against gravity using electrical energy driving a crane motor. Lifting against gravity performs mechanical work on the object and stores gravitational potential energy in the object. If the object falls to the ground, gravity does mechanical work on the object which transforms the potential energy in the gravitational field to the kinetic energy released as heat on impact with the ground. Our Sun transforms nuclear potential energy to other forms of energy; its total mass does not decrease due to that in itself (since it still contains the same total energy even if in different forms), but its mass does decrease when the energy escapes out to its surroundings, largely as radiant energy.

Mass and energy are closely related. According to the theory of mass–energy equivalence, any object that has mass when stationary in a frame of reference (called rest mass) also has an equivalent amount of energy whose form is called rest energy in that frame, and any additional energy acquired by the object above that rest energy will increase an object's mass. For example, with a sensitive enough scale, one could measure an increase in mass after heating an object.

Living organisms require available energy to stay alive, such as the energy humans get from food. Civilisation gets the energy it needs from energy resources such as fossil fuels, nuclear fuel, or renewable energy. The processes of Earth's climate and ecosystem are driven by the radiant energy Earth receives from the sun and the geothermal energy contained within the earth.

Energy (band)

Energy is a Taiwanese boy band formed in 2002. The original band consisted of five members, Milk, Ady, Toro, Penny and Joe. Toro and Milk left the band in 2003 and 2005 respectively. Xiao Gang joined the band in mid-2007. The band disbanded in 2009.

Energy (Pointer Sisters album)

Energy is the fifth studio album by The Pointer Sisters, released in 1978 on the Planet label.

Energy (disambiguation)

Energy is an indirectly observed property in physics which comes in many forms.

Energy may also refer to:

Energy (event)
''Not to be confused with Trance Energy in the Netherlands, now also known as Energy

Energy is a techno-music event (see rave) taking place after the Street Parade in Zurich, Switzerland. It is considered the largest indoor event of its nature in the country. In 2010, around 14,000 people attended.

Energy (TV channel)

Energy is a private Spanish television channel owned by Mediaset España Comunicación. Its programming is aimed towards a male audience. It began test broadcasts on 27 December 2011 before fully launching on 9 January 2012.

Energy (Drake song)

"Energy" is the second single by Canadian rapper Drake from his fourth commercial release If You're Reading This It's Too Late.

Energy (journal)

Energy is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on energy engineering that was established in 1976. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Henrik Lund ( Aalborg University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 4.159, ranking it 13th out of 83 journals in the category "Energy & Fuels" and second out of 55 journals in "Thermodynamics".

Energy (Nuša Derenda song)

"Energy" was the Slovenian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2001, sung by Nuša Derenda in English.

Derenda appeared dressed in black and yellow leather. She was accompanied by two pianists dressed in red and black, who faced each other on stage. At the climax of the song, two male dancers came onto the stage and lifted Nusa Derenda into the air. During the final chorus, the men danced around the stage behind her.

The song performed 17th on the night, following the United Kingdom's Lindsay Dracass with " No Dream Impossible" and preceding Poland's PIASEK with " 2 Long". At the close of voting, it had received 70 points, placing seventh in a field of 23.

It was succeeded as Slovene representative at the 2002 contest by Sestre with " Samo ljubezen".

A Slovene version of the song was performed by Derenda at EMA, the Slovene selection for Eurovision, titled "Ne, ni res" ("No, it's not true").

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Energy (Keri Hilson song)

"Energy" is the debut single by American recording artist Keri Hilson. The song was written and produced by The Runaways, consisting of Louis Biancaniello, Sam Watters, Rico Love, and Wayne Wilkins, for her studio album In a Perfect World… (2009).

The track was released as the first single from the singer's debut in the United States on May 27, 2008. Although being released worldwide it initially only charted in New Zealand at number two and only managed to reach top thirty on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Dance Club Play charts.

Generally well received by music critics, it was named sixty-first on The Top 144 Songs of 2008 listing by Blender magazine.

Energy (Fourplay album)

Energy is the 10th studio album by jazz group Fourplay, released on September 23, 2008. The cover show the four members: keyboardist Bob James, guitarist Larry Carlton, bassist Nathan East and drummer Harvey Mason. Energy grafts a variety of sounds – R&B, pop, African and more – to Fourplay’s unwavering jazz foundations. In addition to vocals by East – a charter member since the band’s inception in 1990 – the album also features a vocal track by Esperanza Spalding, the upright bassist, composer and vocalist who has recently taken the jazz world by storm with her self-titled recording debut earlier this year on Heads Up. Fourplay's first single from Energy "Fortune Teller" was nominated for a Grammy in the category Best Pop Instrumental Performance at the 51st Grammy Awards 2009. This is guitarist Larry Carlton's last Fourplay album, before Chuck Loeb joined Fourplay in 2010.

Energy (Melissa Manchester song)

"Energy" is a song performed by American singer Melissa Manchester, from her 1985 album Mathematics.

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Usage examples of "energy".

His telepathic ability is almost nil, but he feels the surges of energy.

That was a minor vessel, readily expendable, though formidable enough, a hundred-meter spheroid abristle with guns, missile launchers, energy projectors.

The evening light was abuzz with energy, the sky swarming up into her eyes.

We would need an accelerator to slam matter together with energies some million billion times more powerful than any previously constructed in order to reveal directly that a string is not a point-particle.

I have done extensive experiments using the new Planck energy accelerator and they have revealed that this prediction is precisely confirmed.

Without accelerators capable of producing Planck-scale energies, we will increasingly have to rely on the cosmological accelerator of the big bang, and the relics it has left for us throughout the universe, for our experimental data.

As our most powerful particle accelerators can reach energies only on the order of a thousand times the proton mass, less than a millionth of a billionth of the Planck energy, we are very far from being able to search in the laboratory for any of these new particles predicted by string theory.

In the commons Sir Robert Peel threw himself, acrimoniously, and with all his energy, into this controversy, and used all the exploded arguments of the protectionists with the air of one who for the first time urged them upon the house.

It offers itself for belief, and, if believed, it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it, or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth.

Chi, Yoga, or acupressure will make you more aware of the energy in your body and can serve as a useful supplement to this book.

Shared energies, transformation, diversity-unity, balance, creativity, adaptability and relationship are patterns of life and also can be called the morality of life.

This power is created by successful adaptation to the flows of energy of the cosmos.

He devoted all his great energies to the advancement of the welfare of his countrymen while shrinking from public notice, and sought to lay deep and strong the foundations of government which it was supposed would rise from the ruins of the old.

The other British force which faced the Boers who were advancing through Stormberg was commanded by General Gatacre, a man who bore a high reputation for fearlessness and tireless energy, though he had been criticised, notably during the Soudan campaign, for having called upon his men for undue and unnecessary exertion.

Jesus, Murphy thought, not just a reactor scram but a fucking steam leak--a ruptured main steam line had enough energy to roast everyone in the aft compartment.