Definitions for Powers

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Powers Pow·ers

Spelling: [pou-erz]

IPA: /ˈpaʊ ərz/

Powers is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in Powers (eoprsw).

Definitions for Powers

noun

1. Hiram, 1805–73, U.S. sculptor.
2. ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
3. political or national strength:
4. great or marked ability to do or act; strength; might; force.
5. the possession of control or command over others; authority; ascendancy:
6. political ascendancy or control in the government of a country, state, etc.:
7. legal ability, capacity, or authority:
8. delegated authority; authority granted to a person or persons in a particular office or capacity:
9. a document or written statement conferring legal authority.
10. a person or thing that possesses or exercises authority or influence.
11. a state or nation having international authority or influence:
12. a military or naval force:
13. Often, powers. a deity; divinity:
14. powers, Theology. an order of angels. Compare angel (def 1).
15. Dialect. a large number or amount:
16. Physics. work done or energy transferred per unit of time. Symbol: P. the time rate of doing work.
17. mechanical energy as distinguished from hand labor:
18. a particular form of mechanical or physical energy:
19. energy, force, or momentum:
20. 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).
21. 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.

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.

Verb phrases

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

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 Powers

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 Powers

They also used the Powers of their separate agencies to cite waste haulers for spilling sludge along roadways.

He is bringing all his Powers to bear on them; and he has many and varied Powers.

May the Powers that guide our destiny, preserve you from any real cause for shame.

This is a Hollywood director at the height of his Powers creating original, wildly ambitious epics.

Indeed, it may never unless Western Powers start raising the political stakes.

The jealousy of the European Powers, too, protects the Turk.

Yet the letter which Aylward had brought him gave him Powers which he was not slow to use.

Not the Trinity should come first to Powers so limited as mine—but God.

If I were the Powers that be, it would not have taken me three days to call the National Guard.

Needless to say, this does not enamor her to the Powers that be in Cameroon.