power

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

   “If it is spirits who have power to suffer, it seems they would also have active powers to think and will.”

2. (countable, uncountable)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.”

3. (countable)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.”

   “Thwackum, on the contrary, maintained that the human mind, since the fall, was nothing but a sink of iniquity, till purified and redeemed by grace.[…]The favourite phrase of the former, was the natural beauty of virtue; that of the latter, was the divine power of grace.”

   “No matter how different we appear, we're all the same in our struggle against the powers of evil and darkness. I hope that this day will always be a day of joy in which we can reconfirm our dedication and our courage and more than anything else, our love for one another. This is the promise of the Tree of Life.”

   “Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present.”

4. (countable, uncountable)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. […]””

   “In the face of expanding federal power, California in particular struggled to maintain control over its Chinese population.”

   “It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.”

5. (countable, in-plural, metonymically, uncountable)The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
6. (countable, metonymically, uncountable)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.”

   “Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.”

7. (archaic, countable, metonymically, uncountable)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.”

8. (countable, physical, uncountable)Strength, energy.

   “He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.”

9. (attributive, countable, physical, uncountable)Strength, energy.

   “She's a power shopper; she knows all the best deals.”

   “This high-spec computer is ideal for power users.”

10. (countable, physical, uncountable)Strength, energy.

    “The power to haul the train is supplied by two huge locomotives.”

11. (countable, physical, specifically, uncountable)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. […]””

    “[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.”

12. (countable, physical, uncountable)Strength, energy.

    “The kilowatt is a unit of power, equivalent to 1,000 joules of energy per second.”

13. (countable, physical, uncountable)Strength, energy.

    “We need a microscope with higher power.”

14. (colloquial, countable, uncountable)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.”

    “what a power of languages he knew”

    “All the other children are making a power of noise”

    “"There'd be a power of horses down there on the parade ground, wouldn't there ?"”

15. (countable, uncountable)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”

16. (countable, uncountable)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.”

17. (countable, uncountable)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.
18. (countable, uncountable)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.
19. (countable, uncountable)Cardinality.
20. (countable, uncountable)The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
21. (countable, in-plural, uncountable)In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
22. (countable, uncountable)A bonus point awarded for answering correctly before a certain part of the tossup is read.
23. A button of a computer, a video game console, or similar device, that when pressed, causes the device to be either shut down or powered up.

verb

1. (transitive)To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).

   “This CD player is powered by batteries.”

2. (transitive)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.”

3. 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.”

4. (intransitive)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.”

adj

1. (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial)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!”

   “His hokkien is damn power lah!”

   “Eh his soccer skills damn power one.”

intj

1. (Philippines, colloquial)Used as a cheer to express support

name

1. 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.”