Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Ebullient vitality and energy. See Synonyms at vigor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Vigor; energy; activity.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. colloq. Power; force; energy; spirit; activity; vigor.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
- n. an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
Etymologies
- 1843, possibly from the Latin vim, accusative of vis ("power, energy") (from which English vis); perhaps a modern imitative of the Latin. (Wiktionary)
- Latin, accusative of vīs; see weiə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Plugin will be installed to vim runtime path:/home/mattn/.vim”
“You might like this vim plugin then - drop it into ~/.vim/plugin/and restart vim, then try saving some invalid PHP code ...”
“The vim is on display in one of the show's opening numbers, in which Olivia DiPesto, a blue fuzzy creature operated by Mr. Rabinowitz, dispatches the Pop Ups to Bay Ridge to buy the best tomatoes in Brooklyn.”
“I actually map capslock to ctrl, you can hit escape in vim easily enough with C - [agscala whofysh”
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“Ah! dat is vat you call a vim in your _pays_, -- the vim of Colonel”
“He looked in mute surprise, and everybody else looked; and a polite German count, gazing through his eye-glass, said, "Ah! dat is vat you call a vim in your”
“The number keys print pqrstuvwxy instead of 0123456789; numlock calls vim help; / toggles mode; * prints; - prints; + prints l;”
“And I still can't do "set filetype = doctest" in vim, which is hardly a new tool.”
“I'd be really interested in the "vim" implementation.”
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“Entering the stream again, which, though hardly an inch deep, came out of the rock with such "vim" that when it struck his feet it flew up nearly to his knees, Joe waded through, and then turning, shouted to me:”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vim’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
ace, act, aff, aft, apo, app, apt, auk, ava, ave, avo, azo and 225 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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Naresh_Gre2
convoke, cosset, coterie, declaim, distaff, doff, dovetail, droll, dyspeptic, egress, ersatz, euphemism and 108 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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WOOZ
Words contained in the screenplay of Wizard of Oz, 1939 film.
Comments show the actual "line" from the film.
The words are tagged for grade-levelpusillanimous, genuflect, cataclysmic, vernacular, peasantry, aver, caliginous, tedious, advent, careworn, bovine, commodity and 34 more...
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Deadwood Dick
venison, vim, sanguine, gulch, maudlin, hirsute, pare, cavalcade, twain, repast, cognomen, florid and 3 more...
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position (dynamic)
( descriptive )
more:
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even more:
charismatic, lively, animated, shifting, permeate, wobble, shimmer, sparkle, flex, pizzazz, chaos, fractal and 42 more... -
Energetic
braze, raze, brisance, brisant, rive, catalyze, whipsaw, crack, actinic, sublimate, animate, vitalize and 88 more...
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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 483 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1907 more...
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Words Made Of Roman Numerals
dividivi, cimicic, civic, civil, idic, dill, livid, mild, ilicic, vivid, clim, imidic and 43 more...
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Mr. Prolagus is surprised
Words - or different usages of words I already knew - that I am learning thanks to Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
See also ofravens' with thanks to Anne Shirley.alder, decorum, ferret, dint, wont, gauntlet, turnip, sorrel, deft, embower, scant, peck and 92 more...
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Real words that I love
Words that make me happy in my pants AND have a place in the dictionary.
enervate, efficacious, basilisk, minotaur, elfin, elephantine, schadenfreude, enigma, emasculate, acidic, appalling, ridiculous and 102 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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Latinate
lorem ipsum, citius, altius, fortius, curriculum vitae, bona fide, terra nullius, habeas corpus, quidnunc, voir dire, emeritus, quincunx and 99 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for vim.
dbekeny LION
(sings)
Yeh, it's sad, believe me, Missy
When you're born to be a sissy,
Without the vim and verve.
But I could show my prowess --
Be a lion not a mou-ess --
If I only had the nerve
I'm afraid there's no denyin'
I'm just a dande-lion --
A fate I don't deserve.
I'd be brave as a blizzard --
Jun 11, 2010
vanishedone You know, 'an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)' is also the third WordNet definition (click on 'more...'). With WeirdNet and the row of dictionary icons here, you'll be wasting your time if you add standard definitions for common words. Jan 29, 2009
seanahan That is quite the strange triplet of comments. Dec 8, 2007
npydyuan ...and vinegar Sep 16, 2007
seanahan my favorite editor Dec 13, 2006
andrew.simone ...and vigor Dec 13, 2006