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What (who) is power - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
POWER; Power (disambiguation); Power (album); Power (song); Power (film); Powered; Power (novel); Power (2014 film); Power (Album); Power (EP)
POWER
Power Optimization With Enhanced RISC [Additional explanations: chip] (Reference: IBM, Apple, Motorola)
power
(powers, powering, powered)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If someone has power, they have a lot of control over people and activities.
In a democracy, power must be divided.
...a political power struggle between the Liberals and National Party.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
Your power to do something is your ability to do it.
Human societies have the power to solve the problems confronting them...
He was so drunk that he had lost the power of speech.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N to-inf, N of n
3.
If it is in or within your power to do something, you are able to do it or you have the resources to deal with it.
Your debt situation is only temporary, and it is within your power to resolve it...
N-UNCOUNT: poss N
4.
If someone in authority has the power to do something, they have the legal right to do it.
The police have the power of arrest...
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl, oft the N to-inf
5.
If people take power or come to power, they take charge of a country's affairs. If a group of people are in power, they are in charge of a country's affairs.
In 1964 Labour came into power...
He first assumed power in 1970...
The party has been in power since independence in 1964.
N-UNCOUNT: oft in N
6.
You can use power to refer to a country that is very rich or important, or has strong military forces.
In Western eyes, Iraq is a major power in an area of great strategic importance.
N-COUNT: usu supp N
7.
The power of something is the ability that it has to move or affect things.
The Roadrunner had better power, better tyres, and better brakes.
...massive computing power.
N-UNCOUNT: usu supp N
8.
Power is energy, especially electricity, that is obtained in large quantities from a fuel source and used to operate lights, heating, and machinery.
Nuclear power is cleaner than coal...
Power has been restored to most parts that were hit last night by high winds...
N-UNCOUNT
9.
The device or fuel that powers a machine provides the energy that the machine needs in order to work.
The 'flywheel' battery, it is said, could power an electric car for 600 miles on a single charge...
VERB: V n
• -powered
...battery-powered radios.
...nuclear-powered submarines.
COMB in ADJ
see also high-powered
10.
Power tools are operated by electricity.
...large power tools, such as chainsaws.
...a power drill.
? hand
ADJ: ADJ n
11.
In mathematics, power is used in expressions such as 2 to the power of 4 or 2 to the 4th power to indicate that 2 must be multiplied by itself 4 times. This is written in numbers as 24, or 2 x 2 x 2 x 2, which equals 16.
N-SING: to the N of num, to the ord N
12.
You can refer to people in authority as the powers that be, especially when you want to say that you disagree with them or do not understand what they say or do.
The powers that be, in this case the independent Television Association, banned the advertisement altogether...
PHRASE
Power
·noun ·same·as Poor, the fish.
II. Power ·noun A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.
III. Power ·noun A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things.
IV. Power ·noun A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.
V. Power ·noun Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power.
VI. Power ·noun A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, ·etc.
VII. Power ·noun An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment.
VIII. Power ·noun Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end.
IX. Power ·noun Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility;
- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.
X. Power ·noun The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.
XI. Power ·noun The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number.
XII. Power ·noun Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, ·etc.
XIII. Power ·noun The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.
XIV. Power ·noun Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force, or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm.
XV. Power ·noun The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity.
XVI. Power ·noun Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.
XVII. Power ·noun The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope, the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it multiplies the apparent surface.
Examples of use of power
1. That is power, power, power accumulation and its counterattack shouldnt be compromise, but power, power, nothing less.
2. The object of power is power......................
3. The price covers waterpower, atomic power, coal power, wind power and oil.
4. It said the countries could collaborate on clean coal, liquefied natural gas, methane, civilian nuclear power, geothermal power, rural energy systems, solar power, wind power and bio–energy.
5. Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.