Crossword-Solution: POWER
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| Power | n. | Same as Poor, the fish. |
| Power | n. | 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. |
| Power | n. | 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. |
| Power | n. | Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance. |
| Power | n. | The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government. |
| Power | n. | 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. |
| Power | n. | A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host. |
| Power | n. | A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things. |
| Power | n. | 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. |
| Power | n. | A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc. |
| Power | n. | 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. |
| Power | n. | A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power. |
| Power | n. | 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. |
| Power | n. | 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. |
| Power | n. | 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. |
| Power | n. | An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment. |
| Power | n. | Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power. |
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Sentences with POWER (5)
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Take heed lest his beams fall on you, For the rays he darts around him Are the power of his enchantment, Are the arrows that he uses.’ “Many years, in peace and quiet, On the peaceful Star of Evening Dwelt Osseo with his father; Many years, in song and flutter, At the doorway of the wigwam, Hung the cage with rods of silver, And fair Oweenee, the faithful, Bore a son unto Osseo, With the beauty of his mother, With the courage of his father.
Him the Almighty Power Hurld headlong flaming from th’ Ethereal Skie With hideous ruine and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, Who durst defie th’ Omnipotent to Arms.
The Dolphin replied, “Nay, my friend, blame not me, but Nature, which, while giving me the sovereignty of the sea, has quite denied me the power of living upon the land.” The Lion and the Boar ON A SUMMER DAY, when the great heat induced a general thirst among the beasts, a Lion and a Boar came at the same moment to a small well to drink.
Quotes with POWER (3)
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Like our muscles, our thinking power grows when we struggle.
To add more power to your light, don’t fear the darkness of the night.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 175 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).