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ENERGETICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does energetically mean? 

ENERGETICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb ENERGETICALLY has 1 sense:

1. in an energetic mannerplay

  Familiarity information: ENERGETICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ENERGETICALLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In an energetic manner

Pertainym:

energetic (possessing or exerting or displaying energy)


 Context examples 


With a binding mode that is energetically more favorable than that of imatinib, nilotinib has been shown to have an approximately 20-fold increased potency in kinase and proliferation assays compared to imatinib.

(Nilotinib, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrolysis of ATP is highly favorable and is coupled to a variety of energetically unfavorable processes to drive them forward.

(Electron Transport Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

But when I say the eldest is a Beauty, I mean she really is a— he seemed to be describing clouds about himself, with both hands: Splendid, you know, said Traddles, energetically.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

While waiting for an answer he did nothing, but he did it energetically, for he was in a fever of impatience.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“I am not mad,” I cried energetically; the sun and the heavens, who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Process by which a nucleic acid macromolecule assumes an energetically favorable three-dimensional conformation as a result of intrinsic and extrinsic atomic physical forces.

(Nucleic Acid Folding, NCI Thesaurus)

I feel you have to approach life energetically and courageously.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Unstable isotopes of high atomic number (elements of mass number from 82 up) which energetically release from their nuclei a particle consisting of two neutrons and two protons, with a positive charge (2e+) and identical to the helium nucleus.

(Alpha Particle Emitter, NCI Thesaurus)

Half a dozen other sallow Hebrew faces showed how energetically the Jews of Houndsditch and Whitechapel had taken to the sport of the land of their adoption, and that in this, as in more serious fields of human effort, they could hold their own with the best.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I nodded, and he went on:—I don't quite see the drift of it; but you people are all so good and kind, and have been working so earnestly and so energetically, that all I can do is to accept your ideas blindfold and try to help you.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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