All 3 Uses
dynamic
in
The Devil in the White City
(Edited)
- The owner of the drugstore, though very young, was prosperous and dynamic, truly a man of the age, and seemed destined for even greater success given that the World's Columbian Exposition was to be built just a short streetcar ride east, at the end of Sixty-third.
p. 100.3dynamic = energetic
- Her Harry was so handsome and dynamic, she knew that once married they would share a wonderful life full of travel and fine possessions.
p. 202.8 *
- Parroted from thesis to thesis, this view first gained prominence through a curiously personal dynamic that made it difficult and—as is often the case in the cramped and stuffy rooms of academic debate—even dangerous to resist.
p. 375.3 *dynamic = force
Definitions:
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(1)
(dynamic as in: a dynamic personality) energetic or powerful -- often inspiring others
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(dynamic as in: a dynamic system) continually changing -- typically in a good or adaptive way
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(dynamics as in: the system dynamic) the interaction of all the forces influencing a system
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)