different between energy vs labour

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)

1. The impetus behind all motion and all activity.
2. The capacity to do work.
3. (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

4. 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.

5. (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.

6. (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

English

Alternative forms

• labor (American)

Etymology

From Middle English labouren, from Old French laborer, from Latin laborare (“(intransitive) to labor, strive, exert oneself, suffer, be in distress, (transitive) to work out, elaborate”), from labor (“labor, toil, work, exertion”); perhaps remotely akin to robur (“strength”). Displaced native English swink (“toil, labor”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?le?.b?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?le?.b?/
• Rhymes: -e?b?(?)

Noun

labour (countable and uncountable, plural labours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling, New Zealand spelling)

1. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
2. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Being a labour of so great difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for.

3. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
4. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
5. The act of a mother giving birth.
6. The time period during which a mother gives birth.
7. (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
8. An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.

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Usage notes

Like many others ending in -our/-or, this word is spelled labour in the UK and labor in the U.S.; in Canada, labour is preferred, but labor is not unknown. In Australia, labour is the standard spelling, but the Australian Labour Party, founded 1908, "modernised" its spelling to Australian Labor Party in 1912, at the suggestion of American-born King O'Malley, who was a prominent leader in the ALP.

• Adjectives often used with "labour": physical, mental, skilled, technical, organised.

Synonyms

• swink, toil, work

Derived terms

• labour-intensive
• (The act of a mother giving birth): labour pain

Related terms

• laborious
• laboural

Translations

Verb

labour (third-person singular simple present labours, present participle labouring, simple past and past participle laboured) (British spelling, Canadian spelling, Australian spelling, New Zealand spelling)

1. (intransitive) To toil, to work.
2. (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).

   I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point.

3. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
   • 1726, George Granville, Love

     the stone that labours up the hill
4. To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
5. (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

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Derived terms

• labourer
• labourism
• labourist
• labourite
• labour-saving
• marmalade labour

Related terms

• laboratory

Translations

Further reading

• labour in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• labour in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• labour at OneLook Dictionary Search
• "labour" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 176.

Breton

Noun

labour

1. work, job

French

Etymology

Deverbal of labourer. See also labeur.

Noun

labour m (plural labours)

1. cultivation

Related terms

• labourable
• labourage
• labourer

Further reading

• “labour” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Noun

labour m (oblique plural labours, nominative singular labours, nominative plural labour)

1. (late Anglo-Norman) Alternative spelling of labur

Noun

labour

1. nominative plural of labour