vim

1 a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor" [syn: energy, vitality]

2 an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy" [syn: energy, vigor, vigour]

English

Etymology

Possibly from the Latin vim accusative of vis "power, energy"; perhaps a modern imitative of the Latin.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪm

Noun

1. Ready vitality and vigor.

   1999: But the youth of today were a pasty lot, with none of the get-up-and-go, none of the vigor and vim that he remembered from the days when he was young.... — Neil Gaiman, Stardust, pg. 58 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)

Vim can refer to:

• Vim (text editor), or Vi IMproved, a free multi-platform text editor
• Vim (cleaning product), a range of household cleaning products produced by Lever Brothers
• VIM Airlines
• Vim Records
• V.I.M., an NYC based retail clothing chain

The VIM acronym can refer to :

• Vacuum Induction Melting
• Vendor Independent Messaging
• Vimentin, a protein
• Visual Interactive Modeling

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