power

verb

to supply with power

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noun

ability to influence the behavior of people with or without resistance
rate at which energy is transferred, used, or transformed
result of exponentiation
mathematical operation
powers assigned to an administration, be it central, regional, local, etc
concept in international relations

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊ̯ə̯/ / /ˈpaʊ̯.ə/ / [ˈpʰaə]

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Italic *potis Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt Proto-Italic *som Proto-Italic *possom Latin posseder. Vulgar Latin potēre Old French pooir Anglo-Norman poerbor. Middle English power English power From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald.

Impressive.
“Check out the POWER Mee Rebus & Lontong in this newly established Nasi Padang coffee shop at Market Street Carpark.”
“Their performance is very the Power!”

intj

Used as a cheer to express support

name

Etymology: * Habitational, from Old French Poer, Pohier, Middle English Poer, Pouer, Power, after the Pays de Poix (Picardy). * From Middle English povre (“poor”) as a nickname for a poor man or ironically a miser. Compare Poor.

A surname.
“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.”

noun

The ability to do or undergo something.
“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.”
The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
“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 ability to coerce, influence, or control.
“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.”
The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
“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 ability to coerce, influence, or control.
The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
“In the 19th century, Britain and France were major colonial powers.”
“Britain is no longer the maritime power that it once was.”
The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
“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.”
Strength, energy.
“He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.”
Strength, energy.
“She's a power shopper; she knows all the best deals.”
“This high-spec computer is ideal for power users.”
Strength, energy.
“The power to haul the train is supplied by two huge locomotives.”
Strength, energy.
“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. […]””
Strength, energy.
“The kilowatt is a unit of power, equivalent to 1,000 joules of energy per second.”
Strength, energy.
“We need a microscope with higher power.”
A large amount or number.
“do a power of good”
“Don't you mind my snuffling a little—becuz we're in a power of trouble.”
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).
“the mechanical powers”
A tractor.
“The set I'm making right now needs a power on it, but we don't have any tractors left in the yard.”
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.
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.
Cardinality.
The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
A bonus point awarded for answering correctly before a certain part of the tossup is read.

verb

To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
“This CD player is powered by batteries.”
To hit or kick something forcefully.
“United keeper Edwin van der Sar was the unlikely provider as his clearance found Rooney, who had got ahead of last defender Richard Dunne, and the forward brilliantly controlled a ball coming from over his shoulder before powering a shot past Brad Friedel.”
To enable or provide the impetus for.
“Abdul Sattar Edhi came to Karachi as a poor man from an Indian village in 1947. Starting with a small pharmacy tent, his work rapidly expanded, powered by donations from ordinary citizens.”
To move or advance with great force or speed.
“Playing with freedom and no fear, Ashleigh Barty has powered into the Australian Open third round without even a coach. Barty clubbed China’s Yafan Wang 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday before revealing she had been largely flying solo during her charge to the last 32 for only the second time.”