different between busy vs dynamic

English

Etymology

From Middle English bisy, busie, from Old English bysi?, bisi? (“busy, occupied, diligent”), from Proto-West Germanic *bis?g (“diligent; zealous; busy”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian biesich (“active, diligent, hard-working, industrious”), Dutch bezig (“busy”), Low German besig (“busy”), Old Frisian bisgia (“to use”), Old English bisgian (“to occupy, employ, trouble, afflict”). The spelling with ?u? represents the pronunciation of the West Midland and Southern dialects while the Modern English pronunciation with /?/ is from the dialects of the East Midlands.

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?z'i, IPA^(key): /?b?zi/
• Rhymes: -?zi
• Hyphenation: bus?y

Adjective

busy (comparative busier, superlative busiest)

1. Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
   • 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

     Although they had but that moment left the school behind them, they were now in the busy thoroughfares of a city, where shadowy passengers passed and repassed; where shadowy carts and coaches battled for the way, and all the strife and tumult of a real city were.

     They left the busy scene, and went into an obscure part of the town, where Scrooge had never penetrated before, although he recognised its situation, and its bad repute.

2. Engaged in activity or by someone else.
   • 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.

     And the first thing I did was to lay by a certain quantity of provisions, being the stores for our voyage; and intended in a week or a fortnight’s time to open the dock, and launch out our boat. I was busy one morning upon something of this kind, when I called to Friday, and bid him to go to the sea-shore and see if he could find a turtle or a tortoise, a thing which we generally got once a week, for the sake of the eggs as well as the flesh.

     But to return to Friday; he was so busy about his father that I could not find in my heart to take him off for some time; but after I thought he could leave him a little, I called him to me, and he came jumping and laughing, and pleased to the highest extreme: then I asked him if he had given his father any bread.

   • 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

     After walking several miles in a leisurely manner, and too busy to know anything about it, they found at last, on examining their watches, that it was time to be at home.

   • 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

     His hands were busy with his garments all this time; turning them inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties to every kind of extravagance.
3. Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.

4. Officious; meddling.
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, IV. ii. 130:

     I will be hanged if some eternal villain, / Some busy and insinuating rogue, / Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, / Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else.

Synonyms

• swamped

Related terms

• busy as a beaver
• busy as a bee
• busybody
• busyness
• busy work

Translations

Verb

busy (third-person singular simple present busies, present participle busying, simple past and past participle busied)

1. (transitive) To make somebody busy or active; to occupy.
   • On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
2. (transitive) To rush somebody. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• bebusy
• forebusy
• overbusy
• unbusy

Translations

Noun

busy (plural busies)

1. (slang, Britain, Liverpudlian, derogatory) A police officer.

References

Anagrams

• buys

Middle English

Adjective

busy

1. Alternative form of bisy

English

Alternative forms

• dynamical
• dynamick (obsolete)

Etymology

From French dynamique, from Ancient Greek ????????? (dunamikós, “powerful”), from ??????? (dúnamis, “power”), from ??????? (dúnamai, “I am able”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da??næ.m?k/

Adjective

dynamic (comparative more dynamic, superlative most dynamic)

1. Changing; active; in motion.

   The environment is dynamic, changing with the years and the seasons.

   dynamic economy

2. Powerful; energetic.

   He was a dynamic and engaging speaker.

3. Able to change and adapt.
4. (music) Having to do with the volume of sound.

   The dynamic marking in bar 40 is forte.

5. (computing) Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.

   dynamic allocation

   dynamic IP addresses

   the dynamic resizing of an array

6. Pertaining to dynamics, the branch of mechanics concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.
7. (grammar) Of a verb: not stative, but fientive; indicating continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.

Synonyms

• (changing, active): active, fluid, moving
• (powerful): energetic, powerful

Antonyms

• (Changing; active; in motion): static
• (computing): static

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

dynamic (plural dynamics)

1. A characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior.

   Watch the dynamic between the husband and wife when they disagree.
2. (physics) A moving force.

   The study of fluid dynamics quantifies turbulent and laminar flows.

3. (music) The varying loudness or volume of a song or the markings that indicate the loudness.

   If you pay attention to the dynamics as you play, it's a very moving piece.

4. (music) A symbol in a musical score that indicates the desired level of volume.
5. (grammar) A verb that indicates continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.

Synonyms

• (a characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior): apparatus, course of action, design, effect, function, functioning, implementation, interchange, interplay, mechanism, method, modus operandi, motif, nature, operation, pattern, process, regimen, workings

Related terms

• dynamics

Translations