Meaning of power | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Authority, power.
2. The ability to do or undergo something.
   countable, uncountable
3. The ability to do or undergo something
4. A button of a computer, a video game console, or similar device, that when pressed, causes the device to be either shut down or powered up.
5. A surname.
6. The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
   countable, uncountable
7. The ability to coerce, influence, or control. The ability to affect or influence
8. To supply with power, especially mechanical or electrical power.
9. The ability to affect or influence.
   countable
10. The ability to affect or influence
11. Those who hold effective power in a system or situation: a plan vetoed by the powers that be.
12. The ability or authority to control, govern, command, coerce, etc., such as in a legal, political or business sphere
13. the powers that be, those in supreme command; the authorities.
14. The ability or authority to control, govern, command, coerce, etc., such as in a legal, political or business sphere.
    countable, uncountable
15. The people in charge of legal or political power, the government
16. The rate of energy transfer.
17. The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
    countable, in-plural, metonymically, uncountable
18. supplied with mechanical power. The machine is powered by electricity; an electrically-powered machine. aangedrewe يُشَغِّلُ بالطّاقَه . с ... мощност movido por poháněný angetrieben drevet; -drevet κινούμενος (με), -κίνητος (ως β΄ συνθ.) accionado, movido por -jõuga ...دارای نیروی moottorikäyttöinen actionné מוּפעָל בְּכּוֹחַ- ऊर्जावान električni pogon (meg)hajtású bertenaga -drifinn, –knúinn azionato ～の動力で動く (~으로) 작동 하는 varomas darbināms; darbināts berkuasa aangedreven-drevet, med drivkraft...
19. A strong or influential nation, company, or other such body.
    countable, metonymically, uncountable
20. An army, a military force.
    archaic, countable, metonymically, uncountable
21. having great strength, influence etc. a powerful engine; He's powerful in local politics. kragtig, magtig قَوي، ذو سُلْطَه أو تأثير силен poderoso výkonný; vlivný mächtig magtfuld ισχυρόςpotente; poderoso võimas, mõjukas نیرومند tehokas puissantחזק, בעל השפעה शक्तिशाली moćan, silan erős kuat öflugur potente 強力な 영향력 있는 galingas, įtakingas, stiprus spēcīgs; varens; ietekmīgs sangat kuat krachtig, machtigkraftig; mektig; vektigpotężny, o dużej mocy غښتلى، قوى poderoso puternic мощный; могуществе...
    etc
22. Strength, energy.
    countable, physical, uncountable
23. Physical force or strength.
    countable, physical, uncountable
24. magtig بِقُوَّه силно poderosamente mocně mächtig magtfuldt ισχυρά potentemente; poderosamente võimsalt با قدرت tehokkaasti puissamment בְּעוֹצמָה अधिक शक्तिशाली ढंग से moćan erő(telje)sen dengan kuat á öflugan hátt potentemente 力強く 강력하게 galingai, stipriai spēcīgi; vareni dgn sangat kuat krachtigkraftig, mektig potężnie با قدرته poderosamente puternic; cu putere сильно mocne močno moćno starkt, kraftigt, mäktigt อย่างมีอิทธิพล güçle 有力地 сильно طاقت سے có sức mạnh lớn 有力地
25. Designating one who does something forcefully or on a large or grand scale.
    attributive, countable, physical, uncountable
26. magtigheid نُفوذ، قُوَّه сила força moc, síla die Macht magtfuldhed ισχύς, δύναμηpotencia; poder võimsus توانمندی tehokkuus puissance עוֹצמָה शक्तिहीनता moćnost, moć erőteljesség kekuatan afl, kraftur potenza 強力さ 강력함 galingumas, stiprumas spēcīgums; varenība kekuatan kracht, machtkraftighet, mektighetpotęga توان força putere мощь; могущество moc, sila moč moćnost styrka, kraft, mäktighet ความมีอำนาจ güç 有力(量) міць طاقت sức mạnh 有力（量）
27. The production or flow of energy providing means to do work; energy per time unit.
    countable, physical, uncountable
28. having no power. The king was powerless to prevent the execution. magteloos عاجِز، بدون قُوَّه безсилен impotente bezmocný machtlos magtesløs ανίσχυροςimpotente; sin autoridad võimetu ضعیف voimaton impuissant חֲסַר כּוֹח शक्तिहीन, कमजोर nemoćan, slab erőtlen tak berdaya kraftlaus senza potere, impotente 無力な 힘 없는 bejėgis nespēcīgs; nevarīgs tdk berupaya machtelooskraftløs, maktesløs, avmektigbezsilny ضعيف impotente neputincios бессильный bezmocný nemočen nemoćan kraftlös, maktlös, vanmäktig ไม...
29. Electricity or a supply of electricity.
    countable, physical, specifically, uncountable
30. magteloosheid عَجْز، إنْعِدام القُوَّه безсилие impotência bezmocnost die Machtlosigkeit magtesløshed αδυναμίαimpotencia; falta de autoridad võimetus ناتوانی voimattomuus impuissance בְּחוֹסֶר כּוֹח कमजोरी, शक्तिहीनता nemoć tehetetlenség ketakberdayaan kraftleysi impotenza 無力 힘 없음 bejėgiškumas nespēks; nevarīgums tdk berupayanya machteloosheidkraftløshet, avmektighet bezsilność ناتوانى impotência neputinţă бессилие bezmocnosť nemoč nemoćnost kraftlöshet, maktlöshet, vanmäktighet ความไม่มีอำนา...
31. The rate at which work is done or energy is transferred, expressed in units of energy per unit of time.
    countable, physical, uncountable
32. The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
    countable, physical, uncountable
33. A large amount or number.
    colloquial, countable, uncountable
34. 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).
    countable, uncountable
35. A tractor.
    countable, uncountable
36. 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.
    countable, uncountable
37. 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.
    countable, uncountable
38. Cardinality.
    countable, uncountable
39. The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
    countable, uncountable
40. In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
    countable, in-plural, uncountable
41. A bonus point awarded for answering correctly before a certain part of the tossup is read.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.”

“She's a power shopper; she knows all the best deals.”

“This high-spec computer is ideal for power users.”

“The power to haul the train is supplied by two huge locomotives.”

“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.”

“The kilowatt is a unit of power, equivalent to 1,000 joules of energy per second.”

“We need a microscope with higher power.”

“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”

“the mechanical powers”

“The set I'm making right now needs a power on it, but we don't have any tractors left in the yard.”

“Although US officials have been sounding the alarm about the imminent risk of famine in the war-torn strip, USAID Administrator Samantha Power is the first official to publicly agree with an assessment that famine is already taking place.”

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