strength
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English strengthe, from Old English strengþu (“strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *strangiþu (“strongness; strength”), equivalent to strong + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Dutch strengte (“strength”), German Low German Strengde, Strengte (“harshness; rigidity; strictness; severity”).
Base: strong
Affixes: -th
Inflected forms:
form: strengths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or degree of being strong.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It requires great strength to lift heavy objects.
Our castle’s strength will laugh a siege to scorn.
He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
gloss: The intensity of a force or power; potency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had the strength of ten men.
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
gloss: The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
[…] certainly there is not in the world a greater strength against temptations, then is deposited in an obedient understanding […].
gloss: A positive attribute.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: to play to one's strengths
We all have our own strengths and weaknesses.
The compulsion to expose, renegotiate, or reinvent the strengths and weaknesses of dance tradition offers little in its final outcome to attract the average dance-goer.
Career diplomat Conrad Tribble said on Twitter that multiculturalism “is one of our greatest strengths as a country, and I go to that well often as an American diplomat. It’s hard to overstate the global soft power impact of America’s cultural diversity.”
gloss: An armed force, a body of troops.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Thou princely leader of our English strength,
Never so needful on the earth of France,
That done, dissever your united strengths,
And part your mingled colours once again;
gloss: A strong place; a stronghold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: All like himself rebellious, by whose aid
This inaccessible high strength, the seat
Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,
He trusted to have seis’d […]
gloss: The minimum ratio of the number of edges removed from a given graph to components created, over all possible removals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: ability
asset
capability
expertise
forte
fortitude
main
potency
power
Related words: strong
strongly
Derived words: bandstrength
bench strength
bond strength
brute strength
compressive strength
crushing strength
dielectic strength
dielectric strength
fatigue strength
feat of strength
field strength
fore-strength
full-strength
gather strength
give me strength
go from strength to strength
impact strength
industrial-strength
industrial strength
inner strength
ionic strength
linestrength
magnetic field strength
measure strength
midstrength
on the strength of
outstrength
overstrength
party strength
peace through strength
peel strength
pillar of strength
position of strength
relative strength
retard strength
shear strength
show of strength
signal strength
strengthen
strengthening
strengthful
strengthless
strength of will
strength tester
strength training
strengthy
strike off strength
superstrength
take on strength
tensile strength
there is strength in numbers
tower of strength
ultimate strength
ultimate tensile strength
understrength
union is strength
union makes strength
unity is strength
unity makes strength
upon the strength of
wet strength
wind strength
windstrength
yield strength
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