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vigor

 
Dictionary: vig·or   (vĭg'ər) pronunciation
 
n.
  1. Physical or mental strength, energy, or force.
  2. The capacity for natural growth and survival, as of plants or animals.
  3. Strong feeling; enthusiasm or intensity.
  4. Legal effectiveness or validity.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin, from vigēre, to be lively.]

SYNONYMS  vigor, dash, punch, verve, vim, vitality. These nouns denote a quality of spirited force or energy: intellectual vigor; played the piano with dash; an editorial with real punch; painted with verve; arguing with his usual vim; a decreased mental vitality.


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noun

  1. A lively, emphatic, eager quality or manner: animation, bounce, brio, dash, élan, esprit, life, liveliness, pertness, sparkle, spirit, verve, vim, vivaciousness, vivacity, zip. Informal ginger, pep, peppiness. Slang oomph. See action/inaction.
  2. A quality of active mental and physical forcefulness: dash, punch, starch, verve, vigorousness, vim, vitality. Informal snap. Idioms: vim and vigor. See action/inaction, tired/fresh.

 
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Definition: power, energy
Antonyms: enervation, idleness, inactivity, lethargy, weakness


 

Strong healthy growth and the ability to withstand stress.

 
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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Energy of the mind or body. Also: Active force.

pronunciation Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly ads to our power and enlarges our field of action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).

 
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Vigor's Evil Assistant.

Vigor is a clone of vi for UNIX that adds, as a joke, a cruel parody of Clippit, the Microsoft Office assistant. The name is a portmanteau of vi (the name of the original text editor) and Igor, Dr. Frankenstein's assistant. Vigor was written by Joel Ray "Piquan" Holveck in Sunnyvale, California, and the logo for Vigor was created by Tom Mulder. Vigor has spawned ports to other text editors as well, including Vim. There is also a Vigor visualization plugin for the audio player XMMS.

The idea for Vigor originated in the User Friendly on-line comic strip by J.D. "Illiad": [1]

Vigor is currently hosted on SourceForge.net. Released under a BSD license, Vigor is free software.[1]

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References

  1. ^ "Vigor". SourceForge.net. http://sourceforge.net/projects/vigor/. Retrieved on 2007-08-24. 

 
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Common misspelling(s) of vigor

  • vigeur

 
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - energi, kraft

Nederlands (Dutch)
kracht, energie, gezonde groei/conditie, legale status

Français (French)
n. - force, vigueur, énergie

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kraft, Energie, Heftigkeit, Nachdruck

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ακμή, σφρίγος, σθένος, ρώμη, ενεργητικότητα

Italiano (Italian)
vigore, energia

Português (Portuguese)
n. - vigor (m)

Русский (Russian)
решительность, сила, энергичность

Español (Spanish)
n. - vigor, energía, pujanza

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kraft, vitalitet, energi

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
精力, 力量, 活力

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 精力, 力量, 活力

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 활기, 체력, 구속력

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 精力, 精神力, 気力, 元気, 迫力, 力強さ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نشاط, حيويه, قوة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כוח, חוסן, מרץ, חוזק נפשי, חיות‬


 
 
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