power
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biblical
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
religion
sciences
set-theory
statistics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pótis
Proto-Italic *potis
Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt
Proto-Italic *som
Proto-Italic *possom
Latin posseder.
Vulgar Latin potēre
Old French pooir
Anglo-Norman poerbor.
Middle English power
English power
From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald.
Inflected forms:
form: powers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: powre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: powers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: powering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: powered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: powered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: powre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more power
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most power
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: powre
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: powre
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The ability to do or undergo something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He has lost the power to speak.
On June 8, 1872, the London & North Western Railway obtained powers to quadruple its main line, and a new tunnel was bored for the up and down slow lines.
If it is spirits who have power to suffer, it seems they would also have active powers to think and will.
gloss: The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The proportion of female colleagues in the Hsinchu County Government and its affiliated units has reached 61%. “Women Power” is the power behind over half of the services provided by the county government.
gloss: The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: the power of the written word
An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.
Thwackum, on the contrary, maintained that the human mind, since the fall, was nothing but a sink of iniquity, till purified and redeemed by grace.[…]The favourite phrase of the former, was the natural beauty of virtue; that of the latter, was the divine power of grace.
No matter how different we appear, we're all the same in our struggle against the powers of evil and darkness. I hope that this day will always be a day of joy in which we can reconfirm our dedication and our courage and more than anything else, our love for one another. This is the promise of the Tree of Life.
Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present.
gloss: The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He's nominally president, but he does not have any real power.
“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. […]”
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. [...] We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
In the face of expanding federal power, California in particular struggled to maintain control over its Chinese population.
It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
gloss: The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
metonymically
uncountable
gloss: The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
pos: noun
tags: countable
metonymically
uncountable
examples: In the 19th century, Britain and France were major colonial powers.
Britain is no longer the maritime power that it once was.
Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
gloss: The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
metonymically
uncountable
examples: The threatning words of duke Robert comming at the last to king Henries eares, caused him foorthwith to conceiue verie sore displeasure against the duke, in so much that he sent ouer a power of men into Normandie, which finding no great resistance, did much hurt in the countrie, by fetching and carieng spoiles and preies.
Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d
And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet,
Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made,
That leads to Pallace of my brothers life,
Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not.
gloss: Strength, energy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.
gloss: Strength, energy.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
physical
uncountable
examples: She's a power shopper; she knows all the best deals.
This high-spec computer is ideal for power users.
gloss: Strength, energy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: The power to haul the train is supplied by two huge locomotives.
gloss: Strength, energy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
specifically
uncountable
examples: After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days.
“My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. […]”
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
gloss: Strength, energy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: The kilowatt is a unit of power, equivalent to 1,000 joules of energy per second.
gloss: Strength, energy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
examples: We need a microscope with higher power.
gloss: A large amount or number.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: do a power of good
Don't you mind my snuffling a little—becuz we're in a power of trouble.
what a power of languages he knew
All the other children are making a power of noise
"There'd be a power of horses down there on the parade ground, wouldn't there ?"
each word costing her a power of pain
gloss: Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the mechanical powers
gloss: A tractor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The set I'm making right now needs a power on it, but we don't have any tractors left in the yard.
gloss: A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): xⁿ, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x×x×⋯×x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Cardinality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
gloss: A bonus point awarded for answering correctly before a certain part of the tossup is read.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This CD player is powered by batteries.
gloss: To hit or kick something forcefully.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: United keeper Edwin van der Sar was the unlikely provider as his clearance found Rooney, who had got ahead of last defender Richard Dunne, and the forward brilliantly controlled a ball coming from over his shoulder before powering a shot past Brad Friedel.
gloss: To enable or provide the impetus for.
pos: verb
examples: Abdul Sattar Edhi came to Karachi as a poor man from an Indian village in 1947. Starting with a small pharmacy tent, his work rapidly expanded, powered by donations from ordinary citizens.
gloss: To move or advance with great force or speed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Playing with freedom and no fear, Ashleigh Barty has powered into the Australian Open third round without even a coach. Barty clubbed China’s Yafan Wang 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday before revealing she had been largely flying solo during her charge to the last 32 for only the second time.
gloss: Impressive.
pos: adj
tags: Malaysia
Singapore
colloquial
examples: Check out the POWER Mee Rebus & Lontong in this newly established Nasi Padang coffee shop at Market Street Carpark.
Their performance is very the Power!
His hokkien is damn power lah!
Eh his soccer skills damn power one.
gloss: Used as a cheer to express support
pos: intj
tags: Philippines
colloquial
Synonyms: aptitude
arm
authority
capability
capacity
clout
command
competence
competency
control
dominion
energy
force
grip
hold
influence
main
mastery
might
muscle
potency
pull
sinew
strength
sway
vigor
wald
weight
disposition
craft
potence
power
virtue
Antonyms: impotence
weakness
Related words: possible
potent
successor
skill
log(base) =
Derived words: A-B power
active power
agripower
airpower
antipower
atomic power
auxiliary power unit
axiom of power set
Axis power
balance of power
Banzhaf power index
bargaining power
battery power
biopower
bipower
black power
bottom power
brainpower
broken power law
brown power
buying power
candle power
candlepower
civil power
clean power
combined cycle power plant
come to power
cone of power
copower
corridors of power
counterpower
cyberpower
dirty power
donkeypower
donkey power
do the power of good
duckpower
earning power
earnings power
effective radiated power
electric power transmission
electropower
eye power
firepower
fire-power
firm power
Five Power Defence Arrangements
flower power
formal power series
girl power
gray power
great power
grey power
ground power
gunpower
hard power
higher power
high-power
horse power
horsepower
horse-power
Hutu Power
hydroelectric power
hydropower
hyperpower
inherent power
in power
kilikili power
knowledge is power
labor power
labour power
light-collecting power
light-gathering power
low-power
lung-power
lung power
manpower
market power
micropower
middle power
military power
mindpower
more power to someone
more power to your elbow
more power to your arm
motive power
motive power depot
multipower
necropower
noise power
nonfirm power
nonpower
non-powerlike
nuclear power
nuclear power plant
nuclear power station
omnipower
optical power
people power
perfect power
person-power
personpower
pester power
phantom power
Planck power
police power
poor power
powerable
power adapter
power adaptor
power alley
power animal
power assist
power-associative algebra
power balance
powerball
power ballad
powerband
power bank
powerbank
power bar
power base
power behind the throne
power board
powerboat
powerbomb
power bottom
power box
power breakfast
power brick
power-broker
power broker
powerbroking
power bump
power button
power cable
power car
power center
power centre
power chain
powerchair
power charger
power chord
power clean
power cod
power coffee
power consumption
power cord
Power County
power couple
power creep
power cut
power-cycle
power cycle
power dissipation
power distance
power dive
power domain
power-dressed
power dresser
power dressing
power drill
power dynamic
power dynamics
power egg
power-egg
power electronics
power equation
power excursion
power factor
power failure
power fantasy
power feminism
Power Five
power forward
Power Four
powerful
power function
power gamer
power gap
power grab
power grid
power hammer
power hand
power harrow
powerhead
power hitter
power hitting
power hockey
powerholder
powerholding
power hour
powerhouse
power house
power-hungry
power-intensive
power interruption
power in the land
power inverter
powerish
powerism
powerist
power jam
power kerosene
power kite
power laces
power law
powerlaw
power lead
powerless
power level
powerlevel
powerlifter
powerlifting
powerlike
power-line
power-line communication
power line communication
powerline
power line
power loom
power lunch
power luncher
power lunching
power metal
power mic
power mike
power mod
powermonger
power move
power nap
power noise
power of appointment
power of attorney
power of suggestion
power of termination
power of the pencil
power of the purse
power of yet
poweroid
power-operated
power outage
power pack
power pill
power plant
powerplay
power play
power point
power pole
power-political
power politician
power politics
power pop
power posing
power projection
power puller
power rack
power rule
power satellite
power saw
power scaling
power screw
power series
power set
powersharing
power-sharing
power sharing
powershift
power shovel
power shower
powerslam
powerslash
power slide
power snack
powersome
power source
powersport
powersports
power spot
power station
power steering
powers that be
power strip
power stroke
power structure
power struggle
power suit
power supply
power surge
power take-off
power tap
power tie
power tiller
power to gas
power tool
power toothbrush
power top
power tower
power train
powertrain
power transmission line
power trio
power trip
power-tripper
power-tripping
powertrip
power-trip
power trowel
power unit
power-up
power user
power vacuum
powerviolence
power walk
power-walk
powerwalk
power wall
powerwash
power wash
powerwasher
power washing
power wheel
power window
power word
powery
predictive power
protecting power
pulling power
purchasing power
purchasing power parity
Puretic power block
pussy power
reactive power
refractive power
regional power
relocatable power tap
residual power
resolving power
rest in power
running powers
sea power
seapower
sharp power
shore power
sleeping power
smart power
social power
soft power
solar power
spacepower
space power system
speak truth to power
specific power
spending power
split-phase power
statistical power
staying power
steam power
stopping power
storage power station
subpower
super power
superpower
talk truth to power
technopower
thermal design power
thermopower
tidal power
to the power of
T-power
ultrapower
uninterruptible power source
uninterruptible power supply
warpower
water power
wave power
white power
will power
will-power
willpower
will-to-power
will to power
wind power
windpower
womanpower
world power
power down
unpower
bepower
depower
empower
outpower
overpower
power ahead
power off
power on
power through
power up
repower
underpower
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: قُدْرَة
roman: qudra
lang: Arabic
word: اِسْتِطَاعَة
roman: istiṭāʕa
lang: Armenian
word: հզորություն
roman: hzorutʻyun
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡеүәт
roman: qewət
lang: Belarusian
word: пату́жнасць
roman: patúžnascʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: пату́жнасьць
roman: patúžnasʹcʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: мо́щност
roman: móštnost
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 功率
roman: gōnglǜ
lang: Czech
word: výkon
lang: Dutch
word: vermogen
lang: Esperanto
word: povumo
lang: Estonian
word: võimsus
lang: Finnish
word: teho
lang: French
word: puissance
lang: Galician
word: potencia
lang: German
word: Leistung
lang: Greek
word: ισχύς
roman: ischýs
lang: Hebrew
word: הֶסְפֵּק
roman: hespék
lang: Hungarian
word: teljesítmény
lang: Italian
word: potenza
lang: Japanese
word: 仕事率
roman: shigotoritsu
lang: Korean
word: 일률
roman: illyul
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: hêz
lang: Latin
word: potentia
lang: Macedonian
word: моќ
roman: moḱ
lang: Malagasy
word: herin'angôvo
lang: Malay
word: kuasa
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kraft
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: effekt
lang: Iranian Persian
word: تَوان
roman: tavân
lang: Polish
word: moc
lang: Portuguese
word: potência
lang: Romanian
word: putere
lang: Romanian
word: randament
lang: Romanian
word: potență
lang: Russian
word: мо́щность
roman: móščnostʹ
lang: Sicilian
word: putènzia
lang: Slovak
word: sila
lang: Slovene
word: moč
lang: Spanish
word: potencia
lang: Swedish
word: effekt
lang: Tagalog
word: isog
lang: Thai
word: กำลัง
roman: gam-lang
lang: Thai
word: พลัง
roman: pá-lang
lang: Turkish
word: güç
lang: Ukrainian
word: поту́жність
roman: potúžnistʹ