Dictionary entry details
• POWER (noun)
Meaning:
Possession of controlling influence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
power; powerfulness
Context examples:
the deterrent power of nuclear weapons / the power of his love saved her / his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade
Hypernyms ("power" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Attribute:
powerful (having great power or force or potency or effect)
powerless (lacking power)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "power"):
effectiveness; potency; strength (capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects)
effectiveness; effectivity; effectuality; effectualness (power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect)
veto (the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature))
discretion; free will (the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies)
disposal (the power to use something or someone)
jurisdiction; legal power ((law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law)
control (power to direct or determine)
repellant; repellent (the power to repel)
influence (a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc)
sway (controlling influence)
chokehold; stranglehold; throttlehold (complete power over a person or situation)
valence; valency ((chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent))
valence; valency ((biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate)
preponderance (superiority in power or influence)
puissance (power to influence or coerce)
persuasiveness; strength (the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty)
irresistibility; irresistibleness (the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist)
interest; interestingness (the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.))
Antonym:
powerlessness (the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble)
Meaning:
(physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("power" is a kind of...):
physical phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the physics of matter and energy)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physical science; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "power"):
electric power; electrical power; wattage (the product of voltage and current)
waterpower (the power to do work that is latent in a head of water)
Meaning:
Possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
ability; power
Context example:
danger heightened his powers of discrimination
Hypernyms ("power" is a kind of...):
cognition; knowledge; noesis (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)
Attribute:
able ((usually followed by 'to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "power"):
faculty; mental faculty; module (one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind)
superior skill (more than ordinary ability)
hand (ability)
accomplishment; acquirement; acquisition; attainment; skill (an ability that has been acquired by training)
science; skill (ability to produce solutions in some problem domain)
originality (the ability to think and act independently)
creative thinking; creativeness; creativity (the ability to create)
capacity; mental ability (the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior)
bilingualism (the ability to speak two languages colloquially)
aptitude (inherent ability)
intelligence (the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience)
leadership (the ability to lead)
know-how (the (technical) knowledge and skill required to do something)
Meaning:
A state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
world power; superpower; major power; great power; power
Hypernyms ("power" is a kind of...):
body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state (a politically organized body of people under a single government)
Meaning:
(of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
office; power
Context examples:
being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage / during his first year in office / during his first year in power / the power of the president
Hypernyms ("power" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Domain category:
governance; governing; government; government activity (the act of governing; exercising authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "power"):
executive clemency (the power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction)
war power (an extraordinary power exercised (usually by the executive branch) in the prosecution of a war and involving an extension of the powers that the government normally has in peacetime)
Meaning:
One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
force; power
Context examples:
the mysterious presence of an evil power / may the force be with you / the forces of evil
Hypernyms ("power" is a kind of...):
causal agency; causal agent; cause (any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "power"):
juggernaut; steamroller (a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way)
influence (one having power to influence another)
Moloch (a tyrannical power to be propitiated by human subservience or sacrifice)
Meaning:
Physical strength
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
might; mightiness; power
Hypernyms ("power" is a kind of...):
strength (the property of being physically or mentally strong)
Meaning:
A mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
exponent; index; power
Hypernyms ("power" is a kind of...):
mathematical notation (a notation used by mathematicians)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "power"):
degree (the highest power of a term or variable)
log; logarithm (the exponent required to produce a given number)
Meaning:
A very wealthy or powerful businessman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
tycoon; big businessman; business leader; top executive; magnate; mogul; king; baron; power
Context example:
an oil baron
Hypernyms ("power" is a kind of...):
businessman; man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "power"):
oil tycoon (a powerful person in the oil business)
• POWER (verb)
Meaning:
Supply the force or power for the functioning of
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Context example:
The gasoline powers the engines
Hypernyms (to "power" is one way to...):
cater; ply; provide; supply (provide what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "power"):
drive (cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
