Energy

n.	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. Accumulation (Physics) etc. (Physics) See under Accumulation, Conservation, Correlation, etc.

Noun	1.	energy - (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.	energy - an exertion of force; "he plays tennis with great energy" Synonyms: vigor, vigour
	3.	energy - enterprising or ambitious drive; "Europeans often laugh at American energy" Synonyms: get-up-and-go, push
	4.	energy - an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy" Synonyms: vim, vigor, vigour
	5.	energy - a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor" Synonyms: vim, vitality
	6.	Energy - the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977 Synonyms: Department of Energy, DOE, Energy Department

activity, amperage, animation, application, ardor, armipotence, assiduity, assiduousness, authority, beef, birr, black power, breeziness, briskness, brute force, bubbliness, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, concentration, dash, decisiveness, determination, diligence, dint, drive, duress, dynamism, ebullience, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, effervescence, efficacy, effort, elan, elbow grease, endeavor, endurance, energeticalness, exertion, fervor, flower power, force majeure, forcefulness, fortitude, full blast, full force, get-up-and-go, go, guts, gutsiness, hard pull, hardihood, hardiness, heartiness, indefatigability, industriousness, industry, influence, intensity, intestinal fortitude, laboriousness, life, liveliness, long pull, lustihood, lustiness, main force, main strength, mana, might, might and main, mightiness, moxie, muscle, muscle power, nerve and sinew, obstinacy, pains, pep, peppiness, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, relentlessness, robustness, ruggedness, sedulity, sedulousness, sinew, spirit, spiritedness, sprightliness, stalwartness, staying power, steam, sticking power, stoutness, strength of will, strenuousness, strong arm, sturdiness, superiority, superpower, tirelessness, toughness, trouble, tuck, unsparingness, validity, vehemence, verve, vigorousness, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, wattage, weight, zealousness, zing, zip

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