dynamic: [19] Greek dūnamis (a word of unknown origin) meant ‘strength’. It was used by the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel in 1867 to form the name of the new explosive he had invented, dynamite. From it was derived the adjective dunamikós ‘powerful’, which French adopted in the 17th century as dynamique, and English acquired it in the early 19th century. Related to dúnamis was the verb dúnasthai ‘be strong’ or ‘be able’; from this was derived the noun dunasteíā ‘power, domination’, source, via French or late Latin, of English dynasty [15].
Part of the same word family is dynamo [19], short for dynamo-electric machine, a term coined in 1867 by the electrical engineer Werner Siemens. => dynamite, dynasty
dynamic (adj.)
1817 as a term in philosophy; 1827 in the sense "pertaining to force producing motion" (the opposite of static), from French dynamique introduced by German mathematician Gottfried Leibnitz (1646-1716) in 1691 from Greek dynamikos "powerful," from dynamis "power," from dynasthai "to be able, to have power, be strong enough," which is of unknown origin. The figurative sense of "active, potent, energetic" is from 1856 (in Emerson). Related: Dynamically.
dynamic (n.)
"energetic force; motive force," 1894, from dynamic (adj.).
1. He mixed business and pleasure in a perfect and dynamic way.
他以互动的方式将工作和娱乐完美地结合起来。
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2. The company president, and my immediate superior, was the dynamic Harry Stokes.
公司的董事长,也就是我的直接上司,是精力充沛的哈里·斯托克斯。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The dynamic of the market demands constant change and adjustment.
dynamic: [19] Greek dūnamis (a word of unknown origin) meant ‘strength’. It was used by the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel in 1867 to form the name of the new explosive he had invented, dynamite. From it was derived the adjective dunamikós ‘powerful’, which French adopted in the 17th century as dynamique, and English acquired it in the early 19th century. Related to dúnamis was the verb dúnasthai ‘be strong’ or ‘be able’; from this was derived the noun dunasteíā ‘power, domination’, source, via French or late Latin, of English dynasty [15].
Part of the same word family is dynamo [19], short for dynamo-electric machine, a term coined in 1867 by the electrical engineer Werner Siemens. => dynamite, dynasty
dynamic (adj.)
1817 as a term in philosophy; 1827 in the sense "pertaining to force producing motion" (the opposite of static), from French dynamique introduced by German mathematician Gottfried Leibnitz (1646-1716) in 1691 from Greek dynamikos "powerful," from dynamis "power," from dynasthai "to be able, to have power, be strong enough," which is of unknown origin. The figurative sense of "active, potent, energetic" is from 1856 (in Emerson). Related: Dynamically.
dynamic (n.)
"energetic force; motive force," 1894, from dynamic (adj.).
双语例句
1. He mixed business and pleasure in a perfect and dynamic way.
他以互动的方式将工作和娱乐完美地结合起来。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The company president, and my immediate superior, was the dynamic Harry Stokes.
公司的董事长,也就是我的直接上司,是精力充沛的哈里·斯托克斯。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The dynamic of the market demands constant change and adjustment.