What's the difference between oomph and power?

Oomph


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A pologies in advance for the lack of fizz, the absence of oomph, the non-appearance of verve in today's Rumour Mill.
  • (2) "Let's try a sultry one," the photographer says and she turns up the oomph.
  • (3) Spectacular architecture, vibrant festivals and flamenco flamboyance; Seville has plenty of peacock oomph.
  • (4) "If Sixty Minutes and the news outlets portray this as a new wave in American politics, and De Blasio as a courageous man taking on inequality, they could create an oomph that will make other politicians afraid to oppose him."
  • (5) From this perspective, the relative lack of earning and public power of the majority of women can be seen not as the result of discrimination but of good old nature (women choosing to do less paid work), or a simple lack of personal or career oomph.
  • (6) There is a little bit more oomph to these storms when they do develop, the so-called nor’easters in particular,” said Nor’easters pack their punch from the contrast between cold land temperatures and the warmer Gulf stream and surrounding waters.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Queueing at a London Muslim Centre meeting The star turn is Guardian columnist and activist Owen Jones , who gives a speech, some of which he reads off his phone, about the Diggers and suffragettes; it’s delivered with his customary oomph.
  • (8) Moreover, though modern Tories have their own versions of all these problems, Labour seems to suffer from an altogether deeper pathology – perhaps because, whereas the Conservatives are confident enough to voice their ideas with that bit more clarity and oomph, Labour is still so scared of its own shadow that it too often ends up sounding downright strange.
  • (9) Thankfully André Schürrle and Mario Götze eventually reduced the deficit, putting a bit more oomph into his delivery.
  • (10) Johnson was a puncher-boxer and dandy; Dempsey an uncomplicated hitter; Tunney had grace and nerve and fast feet; Louis’s fast hands punched in a blur of combinations, and he had a killer instinct as well as chivalry; Marciano had relentless oomph and steam-hammer cruelty.
  • (11) Fed officials are likely to view the economy as having a bit more ‘oomph’ than originally thought heading into Q3,” he wrote in a note to investors.
  • (12) There again, there were rumblings about developments over the next couple of days, and the idea that – just maybe – a few high-ranking Labour people might belatedly act, and give the third anti-Brown heave the oomph and coherence it has so far lacked.
  • (13) Within seven days of his appointment last month as care services minister, Lamb was promising the "political oomph" necessary to take the concept of integration from the pages of academic journals and isolated examples of good practice, and apply it across the health and social care system.
  • (14) He is absolutely correct, too, in his description of the Tories, who are "confident enough to voice their ideas with that bit more clarity and oomph".
  • (15) I’m not sure about Jeremy Corbyn at all – he hasn’t got the oomph to be leader,” she says.
  • (16) It takes the oomph out of a good comedic punch if the target is an inflatable clown who keeps popping back up.
  • (17) The third Scotland's main constituent parts are National Collective, the Radical Independence Campaign – a loose coalition of greens, ex-Labour lefties and socialist-inclined newbies – and, by way of ideological oomph, the Jimmy Reid Foundation .
  • (18) I know he will put everything into it to give NCS the additional support and oomph it needs.
  • (19) It certainly is: this is a proposal, after all, with all the ideological oomph and toxicity of the poll tax , if not more.
  • (20) In a sense, the lack of oomph in the property market is curious.

Power


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Poor, the fish.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (n.) Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.
  • (n.) The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.
  • (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.
  • (n.) A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.
  • (n.) A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things.
  • (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.
  • (n.) A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.
  • (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.
  • (n.) A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog 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.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (n.) An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment.
  • (n.) Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
  • (3) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
  • (4) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
  • (5) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
  • (6) Therefore, we have developed a powerful new microcomputer-based system which permits detailed investigations and evaluation of 3-D and 4-D (dynamic 3-D) biomedical images.
  • (7) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
  • (8) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
  • (9) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
  • (10) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (11) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
  • (12) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
  • (13) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
  • (14) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
  • (15) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
  • (16) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
  • (17) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (18) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
  • (19) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
  • (20) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).