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ambition
English
Etymology
From Middle English ambicion, from Old French ambition, from Latin ambiti? (“ambition, a striving for favor, literally 'a going around', especially of candidates for office in Rome soliciting votes”), from ambi? (“I go around, solicit votes”). See ambient, issue.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æm?b?.??n/
Noun
ambition (countable and uncountable, plural ambitions)
- (uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
- 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society
- the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres
- 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society
- (countable) An object of an ardent desire.
- A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
- (uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
- (obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:ambition.
Related terms
- ambience
- ambient
- ambit
- ambitious
- ambitionist
Translations
Verb
ambition (third-person singular simple present ambitions, present participle ambitioning, simple past and past participle ambitioned)
- To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
- 1746, C Turnbull, The Histories Of Marcus Junianus Justinus
- Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.
- 1746, C Turnbull, The Histories Of Marcus Junianus Justinus
Further reading
- ambition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- ambition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Danish
Noun
ambition c
- ambition
Declension
Related terms
- ambitiøs
Further reading
- “ambition” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “ambition” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Finnish
Noun
ambition
- Genitive singular form of ambitio.
French
Etymology
From Latin ambiti?
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.bi.sj??/
Noun
ambition f (plural ambitions)
- ambition (feeling)
Related terms
- ambitieux
- ambitionner
Further reading
- “ambition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
ambition c
- en ambition
Declension
Related terms
- ambitiös
ambition From the web:
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energy
English
Etymology
From Middle French énergie, from Late Latin energia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (enérgeia, “activity”), from ??????? (energós, “active”), from ?? (en, “in”) + ????? (érgon, “work”). The sense in physics was coined by Thomas Young in 1802 in his lectures on Natural Philosophy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??n?d??i/
- (US) IPA(key): /??n?d??i/
Noun
energy (countable and uncountable, plural energies)
- The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
- The capacity to do work.
- (physics) 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.
- Units:
- SI: joule (J), kilowatt-hour (kW·h)
- CGS: erg (erg)
- Customary: foot-pound-force, calorie, kilocalorie (i.e. dietary calories), BTU, liter-atmosphere, ton of TNT
- Units:
- 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.)
- 2004, Phylameana L. Desy, The Everything Reiki Book, Body, Mind & Spirit, p.130
- Reiki, much like prayer, is a personal exercise that can easily convert negative energy into positive energy.
- 2009, Christopher Johns, Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, John Wiley & Sons, p.15
- Negative feelings can be worked through and their energy converted into positive energy […]. In crisis, normal patterns of self-organization fail, resulting in anxiety (negative energy). Being open systems, people can exchange this energy with the environment and create positive energy for taking action based on a reorganisation of self as necessary to resolve the crisis and emerge at a higher level of consciousness; that is, until the next crisis.
- 2011, Anne Jones, Healing Negative Energies, Hachette, p.118
- If you have been badly affected by negative energy a salt bath is wonderful for clearing and cleansing yourself […]. Salt attracts negative energy and will draw it away from you.
- 2004, Phylameana L. Desy, The Everything Reiki Book, Body, Mind & Spirit, p.130
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, theology, often in the 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.
- 2003, Carl S. Tyneh, Orthodox Christianity: Overview and Bibliography, page 21:
- The three Persons of the Holy Trinity have the same opinion, make the same decision, and put forth the same energy and action.
- 2017, Stoyan Tanev, Energy in Orthodox Theology and Physics: From Controversy to Encounter, quoting and translating the conclusions of the Fifth Council of Constantinople (1351), page 2:
- We hold, further, that there are two energies in our Lord Jesus Christ. For He possesses on the one hand, as God and being of like essence with the Father, the divine energy, and, likewise, since He became man and of like essence to us, the energy proper to human nature. […] Energy is the efficient and essential activity of nature; the capacity for energy is the nature from which proceeds energy; the product of energy is that which is effected by energy; and the agent of energy is the person or subsistence which uses the energy.
- 2019, Paul Ladouceur, Modern Orthodox Theology: Behold, I Make All Things New, page 368–369:
- The doctrine of the divine energies states that the divine essence, God-in-himself, is unknowable to any creature, whereas God makes himself known in creation by his divine energies, which are inseparable from the divine essence yet distinct from it. Humans know and experience God through his energies. […] Energies are indeed God, but God is more than his energies.
- 2003, Carl S. Tyneh, Orthodox Christianity: Overview and Bibliography, page 21:
- (role-playing games, video games, board games) A measure of how many actions a player or unit can take; in the fantasy genre often called magic points or mana.
- Synonym: action points
Synonyms
- (capacity to do work): pep, vigor, vim, vitality
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Cebuano: enerdyi
Translations
References
- energy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- energy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- energy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Greeny, greeny, greyen, gyrene
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