(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).
Wise
Definition:
(v.) Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.
(v.) Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious.
(v.) Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination.
(v.) Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination.
(v.) Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.
Example Sentences:
(1) A more current view of science, the Probabilistic paradigm, encourages more complex models, which can be articulated as the more flexible maxims used with insight by the wise clinician.
(2) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
(3) Based on these data, we propose that 19-oxygenated androgen intermediates are biosynthesized sequentially in a step-wise fashion as the cytochrome P450 and NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase form transient complexes, and that the amount of isolatable 19-oxygenated androgen is proportional to the amount of excess cytochrome P450 component.
(4) But Zambelis added: "Whatever rebel government emerges, China already has a place in the country business-wise.
(5) First, I recapped Die Hard 2 – the insane cross-eyed Gizmo of the Die Hard world – a few months ago, and now I'm secretly determined to do the whole series before the Guardian film editors wise up and yank this feature from my warm, live hands.
(6) At the hearing, committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy, praised the secret service as "wise, very professional men and women", and called it shocking that so many of the agency's employees were involved in the scandal.
(7) The acid-mediated Z form binds ethidium more weakly than its B counterpart, and the ethidium induced Z to B conversion occurs in a step-wise (non-allosteric) fashion without the requirement of a threshold concentration.
(8) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
(9) He has to grow up and wise up to the fact that people at West Brom have supported him right from the beginning of his career.
(10) In an attempt to show the public and cabinet colleagues that money being ring-fenced from Treasury cuts will be spent wisely, Mitchell said he wanted to know whether money spent at agencies such as the World Bank and the UN matched up to the government's anti-poverty objectives and delivered real benefits.
(11) The rate constants involved in the step-wise dissociation, process were obtained.
(12) The Republican presidential candidate then told Fox News that Amazon is “getting away with murder tax-wise” and has a “huge antitrust problem because he’s [Bezos] controlling so much”.
(13) Two new bifunctional reagents suited for the step-wise cross-linking of cysteine and lysine residues in proteins are described.
(14) The correction of hallux varus must be performed in a well planned, step-wise method.
(15) It's wise, however, not to concentrate on the exact path of Sandy.
(16) Concentrations of ceftriaxone and cefotaxime were measured by Andrews and Wise in blister fluids, in ascites and pleural fluid by us.
(17) Given a choice between placating the Freedom Caucus and placating Donald Trump, Ryan is wisely choosing self-preservation with the former.
(18) San Antonio wisely takes a timeout hoping to cool him down.
(19) Crozier has had time to play with since he arrived, but the question is whether he has used his first year wisely to build for the future.
(20) After different time intervals following a single or course-wise administration of the compound the level of total lipids was determined in the muscles and liver of the mice, and of the total lipids, beta-lipoproteins, phospholipids, cholesterol, fatty acids and 11-oxycorticosteroids levels in the blood serum of rabbits and of the bile acids content in the vesical bile of these animals.