Meaning of strength | Babel Free

Definitions

1. force
2. The quality or degree of being strong
3. The quality or degree of being strong.
   countable, uncountable
4. The intensity of a force or power; potency.
   countable, uncountable
5. The intensity of a force or power; potency
6. The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
   countable, uncountable
7. The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based
8. A positive attribute.
   countable, uncountable
9. third-person singular present indicative
10. A positive attribute
11. An armed force, a body of troops.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
12. second-person singular imperative
13. An armed force, a body of troops
14. A strong place; a stronghold.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
15. The minimum ratio of the number of edges removed from a given graph to components created, over all possible removals.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

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.”

“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.”

“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 […].”

“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.””

“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;”

“All like himself rebellious, by whose aid This inaccessible high strength, the seat Of Deitie supream, us dispossest, He trusted to have seis’d […]”

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