Dictionary Entry
power
power is a 5-letter English word with 27 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Same as Poor, the fish. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 27 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Same as Poor, the fish.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.
- 5noun
The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.
- 8noun
A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things.
- 9noun
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.
- 10noun
A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.
- 11noun
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.
- 12noun
A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.
- 13noun
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.
- 14noun
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.
- 15noun
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.
- 16noun
An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment.
- 17noun
Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power.
- 18noun
physical strength
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- 19noun
possession of controlling influence
"the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"
"the power of his love saved her"
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- 20noun
possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
"danger heightened his powers of discrimination"
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- 21noun
a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
- 22noun
a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
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- 23noun
a very wealthy or powerful businessman
"an oil baron"
- 24noun
one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
"the mysterious presence of an evil power"
"may the force be with you"
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- 25noun
(physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second)
- 26noun
(of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
"being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"
"during his first year in office"
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- 27verb
supply the force or power for the functioning of
"The gasoline powers the engines"
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