Definitions for POWER

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POWER pow·er

Spelling: [pou-er]

IPA: /ˈpaʊ ər/

Power is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in POWER (eoprw).

Definitions for POWER

noun

1. ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
2. political or national strength:
3. great or marked ability to do or act; strength; might; force.
4. the possession of control or command over others; authority; ascendancy:
5. political ascendancy or control in the government of a country, state, etc.:
6. legal ability, capacity, or authority:
7. delegated authority; authority granted to a person or persons in a particular office or capacity:
8. a document or written statement conferring legal authority.
9. a person or thing that possesses or exercises authority or influence.
10. a state or nation having international authority or influence:
11. a military or naval force:
12. Often, powers. a deity; divinity:
13. powers, Theology. an order of angels. Compare angel (def 1).
14. Dialect. a large number or amount:
15. Physics. work done or energy transferred per unit of time. Symbol: P. the time rate of doing work.
16. mechanical energy as distinguished from hand labor:
17. a particular form of mechanical or physical energy:
18. energy, force, or momentum:
19. Mathematics. the product obtained by multiplying a quantity by itself one or more times: (of a number x) a number whose logarithm is a times the logarithm of x (and is called the a th power of x). Symbolically, y = xa is a number that satisfies the equation log y = a log x. the exponent of an expression, as a in xa. cardinal number (def 2).
20. Optics. the magnifying capacity of a microscope, telescope, etc., expressed as the ratio of the diameter of the image to the diameter of the object. Compare magnification (def 2). the reciprocal of the focal length of a lens.
21. a heavy blow or a loud, explosive noise.
22. the power of exciting.

Idioms

1. the powers that be, those in supreme command; the authorities:

adjective

1. operated or driven by a motor or electricity:
2. power-assisted:
3. conducting electricity:
4. Informal. expressing or exerting power; involving or characteristic of those having authority or influence, as in power lunch; power couple; power suit.
5. exciting and appealing.

Verb phrases

1. power down, Computers. to shut off.
2. power up, Computers. to turn on.

interjection

1. (used to express or indicate a heavy blow or a loud, explosive noise.)

verb (used with object)

1. to supply with electricity or other means of power:
2. to give power to; make powerful:
3. to inspire; spur; sustain:
4. (of a fuel, engine, or any source able to do work) to supply force to operate (a machine):
5. to drive or push by applying power:

Origin of POWER

1250-1300; Middle English pouer(e), poer(e) Anglo-French poueir, poer, noun use of infinitive: to be able Vulgar Latin *potēre (replacing Latin posse to be able, have power). See Examples for POWER

Would the Democrats rescind those rights if they were to return to power?

I believe in the power of institutions—Congress, public policy, certain ideas about politics—that last for a long time.

But I have a secret dread of the character and power of Alcibiades.

If a servant complained of being abused, his master had no power to retain him.

Then I shall have to put it out of your power to carry out your threat.

He was forced to admit that the girl still had power to trouble him.

We, on the other hand, are the ones who are making it bad, and the ones with the power to change that.

What it endangers is a narrow conception of Russian power, understood through the eyes of its dictatorial leader.

Has this fearful pestilence no power to restrain the appetites and passions of the people?

Employees strap a device to their heads and power a helicopter drone with their minds.