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UK
/pˈaʊɐ/
]
[ US /ˈpaʊɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈpaʊɝ/ ]
NOUN
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energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor
The power went oout around midnight
they built a car that runs on electricity -
possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
danger heightened his powers of discrimination -
a very wealthy or powerful businessman
an oil baron -
possession of controlling influence
his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade
the deterrent power of nuclear weapons
the power of his love saved her - physical strength
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(of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
during his first year in power
the power of the president
during his first year in office
being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage - a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
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one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
may the force be with you
the mysterious presence of an evil power
the forces of evil - (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second)
- a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
VERB
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supply the force or power for the functioning of
The gasoline powers the engines
How To Use power In A Sentence
- Liberal democracy is a fraud, a cover for the power of the elite. Times, Sunday Times
- Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
- This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.
- The captain's armband must have special powers because he's been brilliant. Times, Sunday Times
- A substantial element of the system is the set of physical exercises performed in pairs and again based on the idea of the power of co-operation.
- The Huilloc men are only a little taller than their womenfolk, with broad chests, powerful shoulders and heavily muscled legs.
- Nor do I deny that they sometimes abuse their power and are unfair to individuals.
- ‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
- The security police quickly squelched an extremely rare public demonstration demanding political reform on Monday, the 41st anniversary of the Baath Party's seizure of power here.
- Thus, the power of drawing iron is one of the ideas of the complex one of that substance we call a loadstone; and a power to be so drawn is a part of the complex one we call iron: which powers pass for inherent qualities in those subjects. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding