energy

Noun

• the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977

• any source of usable power
  • the DOE is responsible for maintaining the energy policy
    

• a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
  • jogging works off my excess energy
    
  • he seemed full of vim and vigor
    

• an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
  • his writing conveys great energy
    
  • a remarkable muscularity of style
    

• enterprising or ambitious drive
  • Europeans often laugh at American energy
    

• forceful exertion
  • he plays tennis with great energy
    
  • he's full of zip
    

• (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Department of Energy , Energy Department , Energy , DOE , vim , vitality , muscularity , vigor , vigour , push , get-up-and-go , zip , free energy